Title :
Demo abstract: A compact, inexpensive, and battery-powered software-defined radio platform
Author :
Ye-sheng Kuo ; Schmid, Thomas ; Dutta, Pranab
Author_Institution :
EECS Dept., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Abstract :
We present μSDR, a compact, inexpensive, and battery-powered software-defined radio (SDR) platform built on a single-chip, flash-based FPGA fabric and ARM Cortex-M3 processor, enabling lower power and tighter hardware/soft-ware integration than prior commodity SDR platforms. Our architecture, unlike prior designs, is well-suited to hand-held or battery-operated systems and also supports cleaner partitioning since hardware can be easily mapped into the software addresses space, and vice versa. Building on this flexibility, we show how highly time-critical MAC protocols can be implemented on this platform and deployed using just AAA batteries.
Keywords :
access protocols; field programmable gate arrays; software radio; μSDR; AAA batteries; ARM Cortex-M3 processor; SDR platform; battery-operated systems; battery-powered software-defined radio platform; commodity SDR platforms; hand-held systems; hardware-software integration; single-chip, flash-based FPGA fabric; time-critical MAC protocols; Baseband; Computer architecture; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Performance evaluation; Protocols; Throughput; Experimentation; General Terms Design; Measurement; Performance;
Conference_Titel :
Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2012 ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
DOI :
10.1109/IPSN.2012.6920934
