Software Radio Architectures and Algorithms

Software radio is a generic term for radios that perform some processing traditionally done in analog circuits using software. Software allows a radio to be more flexible. That flexibility can be used in several different ways: bandwidth scavenging, waveform synthesis, etc.

Unfortunately, processors aren't fast enough to make software radio easy to do for many realistic frequency bands and data rates.Although interesting, complex audio systems can be built using software running on DSPs, high-performance software radios will require more complex architectures. Realistic software radios will be heterogeneous multiprocessors. Heterogeneous multiprocessors are particularly important for portable software radio and any application in which power consumption is a design criterion.

The Software Radio Club

The Software Radio Club is an informal group of people who are interested in software radio design. The Club meets irregularly at one of its radio shacks to talk about the latest in software radio.

The Grand Poobah of the Club is Wayne Wolf.

The club met on Thursday, February 10 at Princeton University. We prepared a Manifesto (PowerPoint) as a set of notes on the meeting.