COURSE # TRO-392
SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO
SDR Concepts, Technology & Markets
?most comprehensive treatment of SDR, from the basic principles through to a wide-ranging, in-depth analysis that justifies and validates the technology?s capability and future growth?
SDR Technology and Open Standards promise to do for the wireless industry what the PC and object-oriented software and operating systems have done for the computer industry: drive down costs and proliferate wireless applications into every aspect of daily life. The technology has already been whole-heartedly embraced by the defense industry and is now set to take off in the commercial marketplace, where the number of players is increasing every year. It is also possible that the future commercial viability of 3G and 4G wireless networks will depend upon capacity enhancing algorithms such as smart antennas and multi-user detection, and that these are prime candidates for implementation by SDR. The growth of this technology will be fueled by open standards. We are now seeing very strong work progressing for both software and hardware. The world of wireless is primed to see its biggest leap forward since the invention of the super-heterodyne receiver!
Applications and benefits:
You will benefit by enhancing your understanding of:
- SDR principles and design.
- 3G and 4G applications and market trends.
- Digital Signal Processing (DSP) techniques and theory.
- CDMA & OFDM theory.
- Cellular network radio planning.
- Object oriented software principles and design.
- Base station and mobile design.
Who should attend:
This course will benefit engineers, managers, analysts, operators and infrastructure vendors interested in expanding their knowledge of SDR and its role in wireless telecommunications, 3G/4G and other applications. The course covers the basic principles of the technology and its potential as well as delving into many areas of detailed design. 3G air-interfaces (WCDMA & cdma2000) are thoroughly discussed with coverage of WiFi, UWB, Military and other evolving standards. Although the course has no prerequisites and is specifically designed for a wide range of interests, it assumes some relevant technical background.
Course Outline:
- Introduction
- Hardware defined radio concepts
- SDR concepts
- 2G base station architecture
- 3G terminal architecture
- Why ASIC development is now impossible
- Standardization activities (IEEE, 3GPP, 3GPP2, ETSI, ITU, OMG, JTRS, SDR Forum)
- Ideal SDR architecture and definition
- SDR Markets and Trends
- Wireless segments
- Wireless subscriber and revenue forecasts
- Military contracts and players
- The cost of SDR
- Optimum SDR wireless networks
- Business case for implementing new algorithms with SDR
- The commoditization of radio hardware
- CDMA Cellular Network Design
- Network capacity and user density models
- Base station capacity and density
- Air-interface capacity and load-factor
- CDMA spreading, modulation and multiple-access fundamentals
- WiFi and Ultra Wide Band
- Air interface principles, OFDM
- Similarities and differences with CDMA cellular standards
- Impacts on SDR design
- Example SDR Radios
- SpectruCell
- Adaptacell
- Vanu
- Other commercial and military examples
- Radio Frequency Design
- Worldwide frequency band plans
- Noise and channel capacity
- Link budget
- Path loss models
- 3G/4G performance requirements
- IMD, spurious emissions, dynamic range, sensitivity, power and gain control
- Multi-carrier power amplifiers
- Design flow
- Analogue To Digital And Digital To Analogue Conversion
- Digital conversion fundamentals
- Sample rate
- Band pass sampling
- Anti-alias filtering
- Quantization
- Static & dynamic errors
- SINAD
- SFDR
- Analog to Digital Conversion (ADC) techniques
- 14 bit SDR ADC
- Dithering
- Clock jitter & aperture uncertainty
- Figure of merit
- Digital to Analog converters
- Converter noise & dynamic range budgets
- Noise budgets
- Digital up (DUC) and down (DDC) converters
- Fundamentals
- Digital NCO?s, mixers & filters
- Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filters
- Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters
- Half Band filters
- CIC filters
- Decimation, interpolation and multi-rate processing
- Baseband Signal Processing Hardware Components
- MIPS estimation for a 3G radio
- Digital Signal Processors
- Texas Instruments C64X & C55X DSP
- Analog Devices TigerSharc DSP
- Motorola MSC8102
- DSP Compilers
- Re-configurable processors
- PicoChip
- Motorola RCF
- Adaptive Computing Machine
- Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)
- Software and Hardware Architectures
- Software architectures
- Hardware specific software architecture
- Abstracted open software architecture
- JTRS Software Communications Architecture (SCA)
- Unified Modeling Language (UML)
- Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)
- Interface Definition Language (IDL)
- Software design patterns
- Real Time Operating Systems
- Software and hardware languages
- Hardware architectures
- Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI)
- Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI)
- Smart Antennas and Capacity Enhancing Techniques using SDR
- What is a Smart Antenna
- Phased array antennas
- Applying SDR principles to antenna systems
- Smart antenna architectures
- Direction of arrival algorithms
- A SDR smart antenna architecture
- Smart antenna performance
- Multi-user detection
- Engineering Design Assistance (EDA) Tools
- How can EDA speed SDR development
- Matlab
- Cocentric System Studio
- System Processing Workstation (SPW)
- System C
- Reference design examples
- CDMA Reference Block Set
- NIST
- Low Cost SDR Platform
- Requirements and system architecture
- Low level design example
- Potential applications
- Other SDR Applications
- Military
- Broadcasting
- Civil emergency providers
- Civil aviation
- The Future For Software Defined Radio
- Intelligent software radios
- Over-the-air (OTA) provisioning
- Security concerns and the potential for wireless hackers
- SDR progress to date
- When will each market segment be dominated by SDR
- The successful players
- New applications enabled by SDR
Text: Software Defined Radio for 3G, 2002, by Paul Burns.
About the Instructor
Paul Burns is president and founder of Simplexity Communications, a consultancy company dedicated to providing Software Defined Radio training and development support. He is author of the book Software Defined Radio (SDR) for 3G and has presented SDR papers and tutorials at communications conferences in the U.S.A., Europe and Australia. Most recently, Paul presented an SDR seminar at the inaugural Design and Developers Forum at Globecom 2003 in San Francisco. He is a member of the IEEE and the technical organizational committee for forth-coming Globecom Design and Developers Forums. Prior to forming Simplexity Communications, Paul gained 16 years of industry experience with a range of international companies; most importantly he spent 3 years leading the development of SpectruCell, a software-defined cellular mobile base transceiver station (BTS) capable of implementing multiple 2G and 3G air-interfaces. Paul’s team completed the world’s first dual air-interface GSM and IS95B software defined BTS in 2001.
Paul Burns received his B.E. from The University of South Australia in 1986.
Details:
Course: TRO-392 Duration: 3 Days FEE: $1,495 CEUs: 2.16
Please direct any additional inquiries regarding this course
to Anita Hellstrom, Program Coordinator, by e-mail, FAX: (240) 371-4488 or TELEPHONE: (202) 241-6326.
Call toll free 1-800-683-7267 from anywhere in the
Continental U.S. or CANADA.
Last modified November 11, 2011.