Software-Defined Radio

Many SATCOM apps require constant communication between the satellite and ground station, which can be difficult with conventional antennas. Phased-array technologies, coupled...

Software-defined radio or radio-frequency system-on-chip? This article compares the two technologies and weighs their advantages and disadvantages for different connectivity application...

High-performance software-defined-radio platforms deliver MIMO functionality and enhanced effectiveness at accelerated rates to meet advanced communication network needs.

Victor Woolesen, Per Vices CEO, discusses the challenges and advantages of implementing software-defined radio.

SDR requires a complex web of circuity on PCBs that not only defines the device's functionality, but also the performance of these microwave and RF systems. Various factors come...

An FPGA, when incorporated into an SDR, is incredibly powerful—these systems can provide the needed input/output bandwidth and processing capabilities for implementing multi-gigasample...

This year, look for SDRs to offer increasing sampling rates, system designs to handle data at up to 5 GS/s, and diminishing hardware complexity.

Software-defined radios can monitor the integrity of satellites and ground stations and ensure the functionality of GPS tracking, autonomous driving, automation, and financial...

At the boundary of the digital and analog domains is the ADC and DAC, both of which have numerous architectures. The article discusses the types of performance characteristics...

The SDR is destined to become the receiver architecture of choice in most systems and the ADC, with its continually increasing sampling rates and instantaneous bandwidth, will...

For institutions, organizations and individuals operating applications using RF, it can be very important to know who and what is making use of the spectrum.

The host and radios must be matched for optimum performance in a software-defined-radio environment.

5G is an emerging communications protocol that will increase data-transfer rates on cellular networks and in turn increase the versatility of cellular networks, aided in no small...

It seems pretty much any wireless device these days is a software-defined radio. Lou Frenzel discusses the reasons behind this overwhelming trend.

This article details important advances now being made in direct-access data conversion of microwave signals within the Ka-band. These advances have implications in terms of acceleratin...

Software-defined radio is a flexible radio communication and signal-processing system that performs at very high levels for applications across radar, MRI, GNSS, low-latency links...

Software-defined-radio functionality is helping military customers achieve challenging goals for compact but powerful reconfigurable multichannel radios.

Widespread adoption of SDR technology continues throughout many markets as key mixed-signal and digital components improve in performance, even as they shrink in size and power...

To limit the effects of wideband nonlinear distortion on direct-conversion receivers, researchers in Finland and Germany have developed a method using a digital feed-forward algorithm...

Software-defined-radio (SDR) technology is quickly being adopted in a number of commercial, industrial, and military applications through the aid of developer kits.