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The Development Of Software Defined Radio ( SDR )

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Communication technologies have been in constant evolution during the past decades. Amongst these digital communication is very relevant. The advent of the digital processor enabled us to perform the complex tasks of communication such as transmission and receiving using a programmable system. This led to the development of a new radio paradigm called Software Defined Radio (SDR). I believe that software is increasing replacing hardware due to it's scalability and cost effectiveness; this idea propelled me to research in this domain. \cite{0001} Software Defined Radio is a type of system which does the process of transmitting and modulation of radio waves using non-traditional hardware like Raspberry pi with the help of software. With the …show more content…

In this case I used one of the cheapest model: Raspberry Pi. The transmitter would transmit on 100MHz and with an output power of 1.5W. Modulation is done by adjusting the frequency using the fractional divider between 100.025Mhz and 99.975Mhz, which makes the audio signal. \cite{0002} Future Work: The earlier system devised could be improved by implementing the following features: - Change Frequency: The Raspberry Pi GPIO pin 4 always transmits the radio waves at the value of 100MHz. I plan to make it possible for the user to set his own frequency value from the traditional FM radio spectrum. - Support more file formats: Currently the designed code only supports the '.ogg' format this is because of it's ease of use in terms of audio manipulation and its ability of holding meta data. Since most users do not use this format for their audio files and in order to remove the conversion over head, my future work would involve providing support for more conventional file formats such as '.mp3 and .wav'. Further, I plan to make use of this SDR based transmitter for Cognitive Radio Communications, that is, developing a dynamic transceiver which can intelligently detect unused channels and broadcast on the best channel thus avoiding interference. Mobile devices are dealing with an increasingly complicated

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