A large body of work has been produced in the area of productivity enhancers for the design of both Software-Defined Radio and Field Programmable Gate Arrays systems. These tool are created with the goal of aiding the user in the process of instantiating a design. They do not address, however, a specific use-case in which the user does not know or care about what the design of his system is. In this work, analysis-based design is presented and applied to FPGA-based SDRs. The RapidRadio framework abstracts away much of the knowledge required for analyzing an unknown signal and building an FPGA-based receiver. Resource utilization is traded-off for reduced implementation time and increased exibility. Automatic modulation classification is done with blind parameter estimation. Unlike other contemporary work, no a priori knowledge about the signal being classified is assumed. This leads to the development of a system that does not depend on perfect synchronization to classify the signal. A new quasi-generic synchronization architecture that allows the synchronization of multiple modulations schemes is presented. The result of the modulation classification is used to automatically create an FPGA-based radio receiver. / Ph. D.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/28729 |
| Date | 26 August 2009 |
| Creators | Suris Pietri, Jorge Alberto |
| Contributors | Electrical and Computer Engineering, Athanas, Peter M., Abbott, A. Lynn, Butt, Ali R., Reed, Jeffrey H., Patterson, Cameron D. |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Relation | Suris_JA_D_2009.pdf |
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