Building Software Radios using FPGAs

Authors

Preston A. Jackson, Brigham Young University
Dr. Brad L. Hutchings, Brigham Young University

Keywords

software radios, FPGA, radio receiver, digital conversion system

College

Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abstract

The ability to implement a commercial AM and FM radio receiver on a field programmable gate array (FPGA) has only recently become possible. FPGAs, the bottleneck technology, have made recent gains is speed and size that allow a signal demodulator to be designed completely in software. As shown below, two additional conversion systems are needed beyond the software demodulator, namely the analog to digital conversion system and the digital to analog conversion system.

Recommended Citation

Jackson, Preston A. and Hutchings, Dr. Brad L. (2014) "Building Software Radios using FPGAs," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2014: Iss. 1, Article 99.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2014/iss1/99