Title page for ETD etd-12222010-163828

Type of Document

Master's Thesis

Author

Karve, Mrudula Prabhakar

Author's Email Address

mrudulak@vt.edu

URN

etd-12222010-163828

Title

Evaluation of GNU Radio Platform Enhanced for Hardware Accelerated Radio Design

Degree

Master of Science

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisory Committee

Advisor Name	Title
Athanas, Peter M.	Committee Chair
Buehrer, Richard Michael	Committee Member
da Silva, Claudio R. C. M.	Committee Member

Keywords

Software defined radio
FPGA
GNUradio
Zigbee receiver
MB-OFDM UWB

Date of Defense

2010-12-13

Availability

unrestricted

Abstract

The advent of software radio technology has enabled radio developers to design and imple-
ment radios with great ease and flexibility. Software radios are effective in experimentation
and development of radio designs. However, they have limitations when it comes to high-
speed, high-throughput designs. This limitation can be overcome by introducing a hardware
element to the software radio platform. Enhancing GNU Radio for Hardware Accelerated
Radio Design project implements such a scheme by augmenting an FPGA co-processor to
a conventional GNU Radio flow. In this thesis, this novel platform is evaluated in terms of
performance of a radio design, as well as hardware and software system requirements. A
simple and efficient Zigbee receiver design is presented. Implementation of this receiver is
used as a proof-of-concept for the effectiveness and design methodology of the modified GNU
Radio. This work also proposes a scheme to extend this idea for design of ultra-wideband
radio systems based on multiband-OFDM.

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