Re-configurable hardware for "synthetic" wideband instruments

Author

Howard, H. ; Cruger, Fred

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

632

Lastpage

647

Abstract

Using current commercially-available programmable devices, ranging from ASICs to PCs, it is possible to configure a single set of hardware that can serve as the measurement kernel for software-defined instruments suitable for the creation and/or analysis of modulated signals up to 80 MHz - bandwidth. Furnished with an appropriate software interface, such a device can replace individual instruments in many cases, and in other cases can be used to respond rapidly to changing measurement needs

Keywords

analogue-digital conversion; application program interfaces; application specific integrated circuits; data flow analysis; digital filters; field programmable gate arrays; network analysers; reconfigurable architectures; signal processing equipment; virtual instrumentation; ADC; COM object API; FPGA; changing measurement needs; commercially-available programmable devices; complex vector signal analyzer; digital filtering; digital signal processing; filter ASIC; generic data flow; modulated signals analysis; re-sampler ASIC; reconfigurable hardware; signal flow diagram; software interface; software-defined instruments; synthetic instrument; virtual instruments; wideband instruments; Bandwidth; Current measurement; Hardware; Instruments; Kernel; Modulation coding; Personal communication networks; Signal analysis; Software measurement; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AUTOTESTCON Proceedings, 2001. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference

Conference_Location

Valley Forge, PA

ISSN

1080-7225

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7094-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.2001.949448

Filename

949448