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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

The production testing cost of modern wireless communication systems, especially basestation units, is estimated to be as high as 30-40 percent of their manufacturing cost and is increasing with system complexity, high levels of device integration and scaling of CMOS process technology and operating frequencies. The major production testing challenges for RF transceivers are: (a) the high cost of automated test development because of system-level simulation difficulties and the large simulation times involved, (b) the high cost of using high-end, communication protocol-aware RF test instrumentation, and (c) lack of external test access to RF circuits embedded inside integrated transceivers. Consequently, there exists a need for developing efficient design-for-test methodologies and non-invasive system-level test techniques for wireless transceivers to reduce their test cost. This dissertation is focused towards development of new system-level alternate test methodologies for RF transceiver architectures. The research proposes using non-invasive testing techniques for RF subsystems and digital-compatible built-in testing techniques for baseband and intermediate frequency (IF) analog circuits. The objectives of this research are: (a) to develop automatic test stimulus generation algorithms that allow accurate determination of targeted RF system-level test specification values using behavioral modeling and simulation techniques, (b) to develop RF transceiver test techniques that allow testing of embedded RF systems with limited test access, while reducing the test time for complex RF and baseband system-level performance metrics (b) to significantly reduce the test instrumentation overhead for testing complex frequency-domain and modulation-domain system specifications. The feasibility and the cost benefits of using the proposed alternate test approaches have been demonstrated using 900 MHz and 1575 MHz transceiver prototypes.

This dissertation presents system and circuit development of the low-power multi-gigabit CMOS demodulator using analog and mixed demodulation techniques. In addition, critical building blocks of the low-power analog quadrature front-ends are designed and implemented using 90 nm CMOS with a targeted compatibility to the traditional demodulator architecture. It exhibits an IF-to-baseband conversion gain of 25 dB with 1.8 GHz of baseband bandwidth and a dynamic range of 23 dB while consuming only 46 mW from a 1 V supply voltage. Several different demodulators using analog signal processor (ASP) are implemented: (1) an ultra-low power non-coherent ASK demodulator is measured to demodulate a maximum speed of 3 Gbps while consuming 32 mW from 1.8 V supply; (2) a mere addition of 7.5 mW to the aforementioned analog quadrature front-end enables a maximum speed of 2.5 Gbps non-coherent ASK demodulation with an improved minimum sensitivity of -38 dBm; (3) a robust coherent BPSK demodulator is shown to achieve a maximum speed of 3.5 Gbps based on the same analog quadrature front-end with only additional 7 mW. Furthermore, an innovative seamless handover mechanism between ASP and PLL is designed and implemented to improve the frequency acquisition time of the coherent BPSK demodulator. These demodulator designs have been proven to be feasible and are integrated in a 60 GHz wireless receiver. The system has been realized in a product prototype and used to stream HD video as well as transfer large multi-media files at multi-gigabit speed.

Submitted by Maria Suzana Diniz (msuzanad@hotmail.com) on 2015-11-05T14:36:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 4812802 bytes, checksum: e5276e62e6294058de196c6252bedc95 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-11-05T14:36:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 4812802 bytes, checksum: e5276e62e6294058de196c6252bedc95 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This work deals with the evaluation of the communication system by radio frequency using the NRF-24L01+® transceiver to be used in monitoring of electrical systems on the concept of smart grid. The complete system consists of one or more Units Remote Data Acquisition - URDAs; multiple Smart Sensing Units - SSUs; and Supervisory Control Subsystem - SCS. The connection between URAD and SSUs may occur via wired connection (Ethernet, RS232, USB, CAN or PLC) and wireless (RF). URADs fit to the acquisition, processing and communication of variables with low time constant while the USIs are primarily responsible for the acquisition of magnitudes with larger time constants (temperature, pressure, humidity, etc.). In this work, we focus on development and communication of SSUs. For these tests the units are of two types: a master unit, responsible for requesting data (wireless) and sending the SCS (Communication RS232, USB, CAN or RF); and a slave unit, which may account for the measured variables of interest to send to the master unit when requested. For wireless communication (RF), the transceiver nRF - 24L01+® from NORDICTM was used, because its processing characteristics and communication satisfactorily meet the needs and requirements of the project, which will be addressed in the course of this work. / O presente trabalho trata da avaliação do sistema de comunicação por meio de rádio-frequência utilizando o transceiver nRF-24L01+® para ser utilizado no monitoramento de sistemas elétricos no conceito de smart grid. O sistema completo é composto de uma ou mais Unidades Remotas de Aquisição de Dados – URADs; de várias Unidades de Sensoriamento Inteligente – USIs; e um Subsistema de Controle Supervisório – SCS. A conexão entre a URAD e as USIs pode ocorrer através de conexão cabeada (Ethernet, RS232, USB, CAN ou PLC) e sem fio (RF). Cabem às URADs a aquisição, processamento e comunicação das grandezas com pequena constante de tempo, enquanto que as USIs encarregam-se da aquisição de grandezas com constantes de tempo maiores (temperatura, pressão, umidade, etc.). Neste trabalho, tratamos do desenvolvimento e de testes de comunicação da USI. Para estes testes as unidades são de 2 tipos: uma unidade mestre, responsável pela requisição dos dados (sem fio) e pelo envio ao SCS (comunicação RS232, USB, CAN ou RF); e uma unidade escravo, que pode ser responsável pela medição de grandezas de interesse para envio à unidade mestre quando requisitada. Para a comunicação sem fio (RF), utilizou-se o transceptor nRF-24L01+® da NORDICTM, pois suas características de processamento e comunicação atendem satisfatoriamente às necessidades e exigências do projeto, que serão abordadas no transcurso deste trabalho.

This work describes the design, construction a performance of such a complete wireless pager suitable for health care centers, rest homes, home application, for example for calling an attendant. This appliance is designed to be easy to attendance. A wireless transceiver is simplified and is attended only by one button. A wireless receiver also doesn't require a complicated manipulation. The aim is to create pager, which will be an useful assistant thanks to its price and simple construction.