Software Defined Radio (SDR) turns the hardwired, task-specific and very elaborate chip development of the past into a flexible software-based design running on a generic, efficient and mass-produced ...

Link-budget analysis in radio-receiver design determines whether the noise and distortion performance of the system meets the design specifications. The analysis attempts to cascade the specifications ...

Excerpted from Digital Receiver Handbook: Basics of Software Radio Sixth Edition, this series of articles from Pentek shows how digital receivers, the fundamental building block for software radio, ...

IN the past few years radio manufacturers in Great Britain have awakened to the fact that the export industry has been very much neglected. This is shown clearly in a paper read before the Students ...

Testing FM receivers is not that much different than testing other pieces of audio equipment. Appropriate tests include the big six: level, frequency response, THD+N, phase, interchannel crosstalk, ...

THIS book forms the second part of a comprehensive treatise on the principles of design of radio receivers, the first part of which was reviewed in Nature of June 12, 1943, p. 657. Part 2 preserves ...