Designing and testing software-defined radios

P Cruz, NB Carvalho, KA Remley - IEEE Microwave magazine, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reviews the main parts of a software-defined radio (SDR) to emphasize several
possible implementations of both receivers and transmitters. We describe solutions for …

Delta-sigma modulation for next generation fronthaul interface

J Wang, Z Jia, LA Campos, C Knittle - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
A new function split option for the next generation fronthaul interface (NGFI) is demonstrated
based on all-digital RF transmitter using bandpass delta-sigma modulation. Different from …

Digital mobile fronthaul based on delta–sigma modulation for 32 LTE carrier aggregation and FBMC signals

J Wang, Z Yu, K Ying, J Zhang, F Lu, M Xu… - Journal of Optical …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We first experimentally demonstrated a digital mobile fronthaul (MFH) architecture using
delta–sigma modulation as the new digitization interface to replace the conventional …

A low-complexity distributed-MIMO testbed based on high-speed sigma–delta-over-fiber

IC Sezgin, M Dahlgren, T Eriksson… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed multiple-input-multiple-output (DMIMO) is a very promising technique to improve
capacity and quality of service for emerging 5G systems. In this paper, we propose a flexible …

Delta-sigma-based transmitters: Advantages and disadvantages

MM Ebrahimi, M Helaoui… - IEEE Microwave …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Power efficiency is one of the most important parameters in designing communication
systems, especially battery operated mobile terminals. In a typical transceiver, most of the …

Power amplifier and transmitter architectures for software defined radio systems

FM Ghannouchi - IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper briefly presents software defined radio (SDR) concept and layouts an overview of
the actual state-of-the-art solution for power amplification systems and software enabled …

Concurrent multiband digital outphasing transmitter architecture using multidimensional power coding

SW Chung, R Ma, S Shinjo, H Nakamizo… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
All-digital outphasing transmitter architecture using multidimensional power coding (MDPC)
is proposed for noncontiguous concurrent multiband transmission with a high power …

Accurate power efficiency estimation of GHz wireless delta-sigma transmitters for different classes of switching mode power amplifiers

FM Ghannouchi, S Hatami, P Aflaki… - … on Microwave theory …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a new closed-form expression for computing the power efficiency of
delta-sigma (DS) radio frequency (RF) transmitters. Due to the large bandwidth of the …

Design and optimization of flexible and coding efficient all-digital RF transmitters

NV Silva, ASR Oliveira… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
All-digital transmitters are getting increased attention due to its closer proximity to the ideal
software-defined radio (SDR) transmitter. In this paper we propose a new transmitter …

Agile all-digital RF transceiver implemented in FPGA

RF Cordeiro, A Prata, ASR Oliveira… - IEEE Transactions …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new all-digital transceiver architecture fully integrated into a single
field-programmable gate array chip. Both the radio frequency (RF) receiver and the …