This report discusses the design and development of the software implementation for a wireless communication system that integrates seamlessly with the TLL5000 Platform available in the University of Texas Embedded Microsystems Lab. While there are a number of features already available on these circuit boards for a wide variety of applications, there is currently no system in place for transmitting data wirelessly from one circuit board to another. The system examined in this report is comprised of an external transmit/receive daughterboard that communicates with a software application running on the TLL-SILC 6219 ARM processor that is already interfaced with the TLL5000 baseboard. This report discusses the implementation of the various physical-layer communication techniques that are utilized by the software application to both transmit and receive data through the external daughterboard. / text

This report details work completed on a subsection of a project to create a wireless transceiver for use with the TLL5000 Baseboards available in the University of Texas Embedded Microsystems Lab. The boards are used by students to learn about embedded systems and currently lack support for any wireless communications. As wireless communications are a vital part of many embedded systems, this project seeks to add wireless functionality. This report describes the work that has gone into the design of a transmission protocol, the implementation of a convolutional encoder and Viterbi decoder, and the writing of a driver to control the wireless hardware which will all run on the TLL-SILC 6219 ARM processor attached to the TLL5000 Baseboards. / text

This paper will present the hardware system design, development, and plan for implementation of a wireless transceiver for The Learning Labs 5000 (TLL5000) educational platform. The project is a collaborative effort by Vanessa Canac, Atif Habib, and Jason Perkey to design and implement a complete wireless system including physical hardware, physical layer (PHY-layer) modulation and filters, error correction, drivers and user-interface software. While there are a number of features available on the TLL5000 for a wide variety of applications, there is currently no system in place for transmitting data wirelessly from one circuit board to another. The system proposed in this report is comprised of an external transceiver that communicates with a software application running on the TLL-SILC 6219 ARM9 processor that is interfaced with the TLL5000 baseboard. The details of a reference design, the hardware from the GNU Radio project, are discussed as a baseline and source of information. The state of the project and hardware design is presented as well as the specific portions of the project to which Jason Perkey made significant contributions. / text