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The software radio architecture
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As communications technology continues its rapid transition from analog to digital, more functions of contemporary radio systems are implemented in software, leading toward the software radio. This article provides a tutorial review of software radio architectures and technology, highlighting benefits, pitfalls, and lessons learned. This includes a closer look at the canonical functional partitioning of channel coding into antenna, RF, IF, baseband, and bitstream segments. A more detailed look at the estimation of demand for critical resources is key. This leads to a discussion of affordable hardware configurations, the mapping of functions to component hardware, and related software tools. This article then concludes with a brief treatment of the economics and likely future directions of software radio technology.>
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- Authors
- Mitola, J.
- Venue
- IEEE Communications Magazine
- Published
- 1995-05
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 26-38
- ISSN
- 0163-6804 (ISSN-L)
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- W2084471278
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- 1,723
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- 0
- FWCI
- 47.07
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- Language
- en
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