Selected Publications
Tingting Meng, Chen Zhang, Peter Athanas, "An FPGA-Based ZigBee Receiver On The Harris Software Defined Radio SIP", Software Defined Radio Forum, SDRForum, Denver, CO, May 2007.
Abstract:
A software defined ZigBee receiver has been designed, implemented and tested with a commercially available off- the-shelf ZigBee transceiver. This system is based on the software defined system-in-package (SIP) platform by Harris Corporation (Melbourne, Florida, USA). This platform is equipped with a high-resolution analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and four Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs. An all- digital phase-locked loop (PLL) and ZigBee demodulator have been created to operate inside the FPGAs. The ZigBee medium access control layer is also implemented inside an FPGA to allow the system to recover the commercial ZigBee signals. A simple RF front-end is composed of commercially available off-the-shelf components chosen for this system. This work permits a large portion of the RF and IF hardware chain, as well as the physical layer and medium access control layer, to be reconfigured inside the FPGAs. A streaming video source emanating from the XBee ZigBee transceiver is demonstrated on the SIP in real time.
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