Software-Defined Radio using Xilinx

Introduction

      Software Defined Radios (SDR) are highly configurable hardware platforms that provide the technology needed to realize the rapidly expanding third (and future) generation digital wireless communication infrastructure. The concept for Software Defined Radio (SDR) is not new. However, its capabilities and applications are ever expanding.  Digital communication systems adopt more sophisticated coding and modulation technologies to meet ever-increasing demand of audio, video, and data services.  The SDR will be a solution for rapid integration of various emerging wireless standards and technologies.       

  Objective

   The objective of this project is to design a communication radio system on the FPGA board. The main focus will then lie on the carrier synchronization and symbol timing recovery from the received data.