Wideband RF front end design considerations for a flexible white space software defined radio

S. M.Shajedul Hasan; Randall Nealy; Terrence J. Brisebois; Timothy R. Newman; Tamal Bose; Jeffrey H. Reed

doi:10.1109/RWS.2010.5434095

Wideband RF front end design considerations for a flexible white space software defined radio

S. M.Shajedul Hasan, Randall Nealy, Terrence J. Brisebois, Timothy R. Newman, Tamal Bose, Jeffrey H. Reed

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

This paper introduces a flexible RF front end for whitespace communication. The designed front end can operate over any frequency from 100 MHz to 2.5 GHz and the channel bandwidth can be programmable from 4.5 kHz to 10 MHz. This large frequency range and wide bandwidth makes this hardware suitable for implementing most wireless standards. A direct conversion RFIC developed by Motorola, drives the core of the RF front end. The various RF parameters can be changed by programming this RFIC through a serial peripheral interface (SPI). As part of this work we further develop an intelligent software driver to control different parameters of the RFIC. Thus the combination of highly flexible front end and flexible software driver makes this hardware an excellent choice for whitespace devices. The performance of this front end has been tested and measured and has been integrated into a daughterboard format for the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP), a hardware device which enables the rapid design and implementation of software defined radio (SDR).

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2010 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWW 2010 - Paper Digest
Pages	484-487
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/RWS.2010.5434095
State	Published - 2010
Event	2010 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWW 2010 - New Orleans, LA, United States Duration: Jan 10 2010 → Jan 14 2010

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Name	2010 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWW 2010 - Paper Digest

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Other	2010 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWW 2010
Country/Territory	United States
City	New Orleans, LA
Period	1/10/10 → 1/14/10

Keywords

CMOS
Direct conversion
Radio transceivers
SDR
Transceivers

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications

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Hasan, S. M. S., Nealy, R., Brisebois, T. J., Newman, T. R., Bose, T., & Reed, J. H. (2010). Wideband RF front end design considerations for a flexible white space software defined radio. In 2010 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWW 2010 - Paper Digest (pp. 484-487). Article 5434095 (2010 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWW 2010 - Paper Digest). https://doi.org/10.1109/RWS.2010.5434095

Wideband RF front end design considerations for a flexible white space software defined radio. / Hasan, S. M.Shajedul; Nealy, Randall; Brisebois, Terrence J. et al.
2010 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWW 2010 - Paper Digest. 2010. p. 484-487 5434095 (2010 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWW 2010 - Paper Digest).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Hasan, SMS, Nealy, R, Brisebois, TJ, Newman, TR, Bose, T & Reed, JH 2010, Wideband RF front end design considerations for a flexible white space software defined radio. in 2010 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWW 2010 - Paper Digest., 5434095, 2010 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWW 2010 - Paper Digest, pp. 484-487, 2010 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWW 2010, New Orleans, LA, United States, 1/10/10. https://doi.org/10.1109/RWS.2010.5434095

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