학술논문

FPGA prototyping of digital RF transmitter employing Delta Sigma modulation for SDR
Document Type
Conference
Source
2009 National Radio Science Conference Radio Science Conference, 2009. NRSC 2009. National. :1-8 Mar, 2009
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Field programmable gate arrays
Prototypes
Radio frequency
Delta-sigma modulation
Radio transmitters
Computer architecture
Software prototyping
Software radio
Radio transceivers
Signal synthesis
All Digital Transmitter
CIC filter
CORDIC
low pass Delta Sigma Modulator
SDR
DDFS
NCO
MGT
Language
ISSN
1110-6980
Abstract
The term software defined radio (SDR) is usually used to refer to a radio transceiver in which its key parameters are defined in software and having its fundamental aspects reconfigurable by upgrading that software. SDR architecture has been proposed as a solution to support multiple wireless standards on a single platform. In this paper, we present the architecture of an all-digital transmitter with radio frequency (RF) output targeting FPGA devices due to their reconfigurability and reprogrammability. The all-digital transmitter directly synthesizes RF signal in the digital domain using Low Pass Delta Sigma Modulation (LPDSM). This eliminates the need for most of the analog and RF components. The all digital transmitter consists of one Cascaded Integrator Comb (CIC) filter, one LPDSM modulator and Digital Upconverter (DUC). The binary output waveform from the RF-ΔΣ modulator is centered at 800MHz with bit rate of 1.6 Gbps. The proposed architecture has been simulated to prove the idea and test its performance. Finally, the proposed architecture is designed using VHDL design entry and ready for download on the target FPGA.