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HyRA: A Software-defined Radio Architecture for Wireless Embedded Systems

Authors:
Tiago Rogério Mück
Antônio Augusto Fröhlich

Keywords: software-defined radio; embedded systems; FPGA

Abstract:
Traditional Software-defined Radio (SDR) architectures cannot go with the requirements of embedded systems, specially in terms of performance and power consumption. Lowpower FPGAs now reaching the market might soon become a viable alternative to overcome such limitations. The Hybrid Radio Architecture (HyRA) introduced in this paper contributes to this scenario as it explores the Hybrid HW/SW Component concept to enable the implementation of SDRs as direct mappings of highlevel synchronous data flow models. Although addressing SDR from a higher level of abstraction, HyRA mechanisms proved far more efficient than those behind GNU Radio when the target is an embedded reconfigurable hardware platform.

Pages: 246 to 251

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: January 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4413

ISBN: 978-1-61208-113-7

Location: St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles

Dates: from January 23, 2011 to January 28, 2011