SDR control interface: An FPGA based infrastructure for control of VPX Software Defined Radio systems

Author

Castillo, Stefanie ; Astarloa, Armando ; Lazaro, J. ; Salas, Sergio ; Ballesteros, Isaac

Author_Institution

Univ. of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

fYear

2013

fDate

2-4 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

We present a flexible, scalable, re-usable, open-source based control and Built-In Self-Test (BIST) System-on-Programmable-Chip (SoPC) hardware infrastructure: the Software Defined Radio (SDR) control interface. Our design endows centralized Virtual Path cross-connect (VPX) switch fabric systems with a hardware infrastructure to control and test the RF Transceiver (TRX) Integrated Circuits (ICs) of a SDR platform. We include a detailed description of the design, show results of an FPGA based implementation and finally experimental validation of the system is carried out by successfully configuring and controlling the Texas Instruments (TI) TRX SDR ICs.

Keywords

built-in self test; field programmable gate arrays; integrated circuit testing; radio transceivers; radiofrequency integrated circuits; software radio; system-on-chip; BIST; FPGA based infrastructure; RF transceiver integrated circuits; SDR control interface; SoPC hardware infrastructure; Texas Instruments TRX SDR ICs; VPX software defined radio systems; built-in self-test; centralized virtual path cross-connect switch fabric systems; flexible based control; open-source based control; reusable based control; scalable based control; system-on-programmable-chip; Built-in self-test; Hardware; IP networks; Protocols; Radio frequency; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 2013 23rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Porto

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FPL.2013.6645600

Filename

6645600