Open Platform for Prototyping of Advanced Software Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio Techniques

Dominique Nussbaum , Karim Kalfallah (1) , Raymond Knopp (1) , Christophe Moy (2, 3) , Amor Nafkha (2, 3) , Pierre Leray (2, 3) , Julien Delorme (2, 3) , Jacques Palicot (4) , J. Martin (4) , F. Clermidy (2, 3) , B. Mercier (5) , Renaud Pacalet (6)

1 Eurecom [Sophia Antipolis]
2 IETR - Institut d'Electronique et de Télécommunications de Rennes
3 SUPELEC-Campus Rennes
4 CEA-LETI - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Laboratoire d'Electronique et de Technologie de l'Information
5 THALES Land & Joint Systems
6 Télécom ParisTech

This paper presents the ANR project IDROMel, which aims at developing reconfigurable SDR (Software Defined Radio) and Cognitive Radio (CR) equipments. IDROMel is a 3 years project that started in 2005 and finishes in 2009. The main objective of IDROMel is to define, develop and validate a powerful SDR and CR platform combining very last technology progresses. The platform includes software parts (reconfigurable protocol stacks) and hardware parts (a base band board and a Radio Frequency Front end, RF). Both parts are presented in this paper.

Keywords: Software Defined Radio; Cognitive Radio; reconfiguration; base band; RF; NoC; architecture

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]; Electronics; Computer Science [cs]; Hardware Architecture [cs.AR]; Computer Science [cs]; Computation and Language [cs.CL]; Computer Science [cs]; Modeling and Simulation; Computer Science [cs]; Embedded Systems

Dominique Nussbaum, Karim Kalfallah, Raymond Knopp, Christophe Moy, Amor Nafkha, et al.. Open Platform for Prototyping of Advanced Software Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio Techniques. 2009 12th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, Architectures, Methods and Tools (DSD), Aug 2009, Patras, Greece. 6 p., ⟨10.1109/DSD.2009.123⟩. ⟨hal-00401414⟩