Field Programmable Radio Frequency Systems Meet Latest LTE and IoT Design Requirements

With the upgrade of networks from 3G to LTE and other important requirements, like IoT, electronics industry has witnessed increasing demand for the launch of open source software and flexible RF hardware. However, this may lead to global challenge, as individuals would likely come across different LTE bands and even for LTE Advanced, while system designers look for relatively higher flexibility as possible without dealing with any additional cost.

Hence, in order to derive optimum solutions without bearing huge cost, large numbers of qualified and experienced EC, CS and IT engineers of reputed engineering college in India are consistently undergoing their research work to expand network coverage significantly by using a perfect mix of frequencies, especially to carry data that resulted in significant opportunities for designers of equipments. In this article, you will be able to get an overview on key requirements for both Flexible SDR Hardware and Open Source Software.

Field Programmable Radio Frequency (FPRF) is obviously the best way to meet the requirement of SDR i.e. Software Defined Radio. Main role of any FPRF device available as Microsystems to provide an effective chip that not only gives flexibility in terms of not only RF frequencies, but also it gives support to signal processing abilities.

Engineers working in Shri Ram Group Jabalpur i.e. a good engineering college in India have also said that 65nm CMOS process allows any wideband RF transceiver to provide support to frequencies to maximum 3.8 GHz from only 100MHz within any cost effective chip. Along with this, FPRF comes with MIMO antenna support of 2 X 2 that gives support for higher linking budgets and half or full duplex to reduce the total cost at ending nodes and thereby, help in complete optimization of system cost.

However, the opportunities are also available to utilize high performance of 12-bit data converters, variable gain amplifiers, linear yet low noise amplifiers inside the chip and on-board core processor 8051. Therefore, designers may also utilize FPRF systems to reduce complexities required on any board design and opens countless opportunities to come up with low cost systems.

Open Source Software

Engineers and other experts of reputed engineering college in India also said that the launch of FPRF devices would bring changes in the way, in which SDR software undergoes with the development process. Now, one can develop varieties of open source software and later on, share to the industry. LMS7002M of Lime Microsystems also help drivers to act as open sources to allow their inclusion in almost all possible projects operating Linux or Windows for baseband.

Moreover, it is encouraging various ways related to implementation of baseband ability. Launch of Microsystems also encouraging many ways of implementing the ability of baseband. Where the range of Software Defined Radio remains confined to a specific set of various modulation protocols and schemes, high-end of microcontroller systems in combination with communication based accelerators have highlighted surprising abilities. Providing support to a range of LTE implementation requires fast possible Fourier transforms and turbo type of coding, along with offloads for protocol stacks. Each of these activities is possible by the help of a general-purpose chip of DSP installed in ASIC or FPGA. Therefore, we should say that FPGA provides designers with improved flexibility to perform experiments and explore many air interfaces.