Software-defined radio receiver: dream to reality

  • Authors:
  • R. Bagheri;A. Mirzaei;M. E. Heidari;S. Chehrazi;Minjae Lee;M. Mikhemar;W. K. Tang;A. A. Abidi

  • Affiliations:
  • California Univ., Los Angeles, CA;-;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This article describes a fully integrated 90 nm CMOS software-defined radio receiver operating in the 800 MHz to 5 GHz band. Unlike the classical SDR paradigm, which digitizes the whole spectrum uniformly, this receiver acts as a signal conditioner for the analog-to-digital converters, emphasizing only the wanted channel. Thus, the ADCs operate with modest resolution and sample rate, consuming low power. This approach makes portable SDR a reality