The following is excerpted from Chapter 18: Software Defined Radio from the Book, RF & Wireless Technologies by Bruce Fette. If you order a copy of this book before December 31, 2007 you can receive ...

Software defined radio or SDR is the most exciting frontier in the field of radio, transferring as it does all signal functions from the analogue to the digital domain. Radios using SDR techniques can ...

The concept of software-defined radio (SDR) has been around for many years, but only recently, automotive manufacturers have identified the components that make the implementation of an SDR receiver ...

Modern SDRs evolve from configurable platforms into intelligent wideband sensing systems combining high dynamic range, ...

THE RADIO. It’s been around for more than 100 years. Pioneering work by Guglielmo Marconi and others in the1890s and 1900s resulted in practical wireless telegraphy devices that permitted ...

The cheap software defined radio platforms that can be built out of a USB TV tuner aren’t getting much love on the Hackaday tip line of late. Thankfully, [Adam] sent in a great guide to cracking ...

OTTAWA, ONTARIO — Take an Android tablet computer, a wideband RF tuner that covers from 100 kHz to 2 GHz, and two audio speakers. Integrate them in a rugged ABS plastic carrying case. What do you have ...