Software Receiver Design

Learn the key concepts and get hands-on experience with this step-by-step guide to constructing a fully functioning software receiver.

Part I. The Big Picture: 1. A digital radio; Part II. The Basic Components: 2. A telecommunication system; 3. The six elements; Part III. The Idealized System: 4. Funny things; 5. Analog (de)modulation; 6. Sampling with automatic gain control; 7. Digital filtering and the DFT; 8. Bits to symbols to signals; 9. Stuff happens; Part IV. The Adaptive Components: 10. Carrier recovery; 11. Pulse shaping and receive filtering; 12. Timing recovery; 13. Linear equalization; 14. Coding; Part V. Putting it All Together: 15. Make it so; A. Transforms, identities, and formulas; B. Simulating noise; C. Envelope of a bandpass signal; D. Relating the Fourier transform to the DFT; E. Power spectral density; F. The Z-transform: difference equations, frequency responses, open eyes, and loops; G. Averages and averaging; H. The B3IG transmitter.