Software Defined Radio for 3G (Artech House Mobile Communications Series)

300 Pages·2002·6.19 MB·English

by  Paul Burns

Software Defined Radio for 3G
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Software Defined Radio for 3G
Paul Burns
Artech House
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Burns, Paul (Paul Gowans), 1965–
Software defined radio for 3G / Paul Burns.
p. cm.—(Artech House mobile communications series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-58053-347-7 (alk. paper)
I. Software radio. 2. Global system for mobile communications. I. Title. II. Series.
TK5103 4875 .B87 2002 CIP 2002032655
621.384—dc21
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Burns, Paul
Software defined radio for 3G.—(Artech House mobile communications series)
I. Software radio. 2. Cellular telephone systems
I. Title
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ISBN 1-58053-347-7
Cover design by Igor Valdman
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To my wife, Josephine, for her love, encouragement, enthusiasm, and
sacrifices during the day-to-day development of this book.
To my father, Paul, (senior) for passing on a passion for learning and
intellectual stimulation.
To my mother, Jean, for nuturing me through my youth and
supporting my every venture.
To my brother, Kenneth, for our life-long friendship and common
enjoyment of all things radio.
And to my brothers and sisters-in-law and the rest of my family for
their moral support and interest in this project.

Contents
Preface xv
1 What Software Defined Radio Is and
Why We Should Use It 1
1.1 Introduction to Software Defined Radio 1
1.2 3G Software Radio Applications 2
1.3 A Traditional Hardware Radio Architecture 3
1.4 An Ideal Software Defined Radio Architecture 4
1.5 Signal Processing Hardware History 5
1.6 Software Defined Radio Project Complexity 7
1.7 The Software Defined Radio Forum 7
1.8 Conclusion 8
References 9
2 A Basic Software Defined Radio Architecture 11
2.1 Introduction 11
2.2 2G Radio Architectures 12
2.2.1 Hybrid Radio Architecture 13
2.3 Basic Software Defined Radio Block Diagram 17
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2.4 System-Level Functional Partitioning 21
2.4.1 Digital Frequency Conversion Partitioning 21
2.5 A COTS Implementation of the
Basic Architecture 25
2.6 Conclusion 29
References 29
3 RF System Design 31
3.1 Introduction 31
3.2 Worldwide Frequency Band Plans 32
3.3 Noise and Channel Capacity 32
3.4 Link Budget 33
3.4.1 Free Space Loss 34
3.4.2 Practical Loss Models 35
3.4.3 IMT 2000 Path Loss Models 35
3.4.4 Detailed System Link Budget 38
3.5 3G RF Performance Requirements 40
3.5.1 Receiver Requirements 40
3.5.2 3G Transmitter Requirements 42
3.6 Multicarrier Power Amplifiers 43
3.6.1 Power Amplifier Linearizers 43
3.6.2 Power Consumption Efficiency 47
3.7 Signal Processing Capacity Tradeoff 48
3.8 Design Flow 48
3.9 Conclusion 49
References 50
4 Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog
Conversion 51
4.1 Introduction 51
Contents ix
4.2 Digital Conversion Fundamentals 52
4.2.1 Sample Rate 52
4.2.2 Bandpass Sampling 52
4.2.3 Oversampling 54
4.2.4 Antialias Filtering 54
4.2.5 Effective Number of Bits 54
4.2.6 Quantization 55
4.2.7 Static and Dynamic Errors 56
4.3 ADC Techniques 58
4.3.1 Successive Approximation 58
4.3.2 14-Bit Software Radio ADC 59
4.3.3 Dithering 60
4.3.4 Clock Jitter and Aperture Uncertainty 63
4.3.5 Figure of Merit 65
4.4 DACs 66
4.5 Converter Noise and Dynamic Range Budgets 67
4.5.1 DAC Noise Budget 67
4.5.2 ADC Noise Budget 69
4.6 Conclusion 70
References 70
5 Digital Frequency Up- and Downconverters 73
5.1 Introduction 73
5.2 Why Use DUCs and DDCs? 74
5.3 Frequency Converter Fundamentals 74
5.3.1 Digital NCO 75
5.3.2 Digital Mixers 76
5.3.3 Digital Filters 76
5.3.4 Halfband Filters 79
5.3.5 Cascaded Integrator Comb (CIC) Filters 80
5.3.6 Decimation, Interpolation, and
Multirate Processing 81