Vision, Reality, and Future of Software Defined Radios

Abstract

The invention of the software defined radio (SDR) in the early 1990s made it seem possible for the Department of Defense (DoD) to replace incrementally more than 100,000 diverse and incompatible radios with more versatile and interoperable radios. The idea was that waveform software would run as applications on generic radio hardware that would perform the necessary physical radio functions (e.g., carrier generation, modulation, synthesis, and multiplexing) as directed by the software. The analogy would be to various possible apps that can run on the same tablet or cell phone. The waveform software would be portable to new hardware with a minimum of effort.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2014
Accession Number
AD1124064

Entities

People

  • David M. Tate
  • Lawrence N. Goeller

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Cost Analysis
  • Costs
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronics
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • Military Communications
  • Mobile Phones
  • Modulation
  • Multiplexing
  • Personal Computers
  • Power Amplifiers
  • Procurement
  • Programming Languages
  • Radio Equipment
  • Radio Frequency
  • Signal Processing
  • Software Defined Radio
  • Standards
  • Tactical Radios
  • Waveforms
  • Wireless Communications

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.