HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF A VERSATILE LOW-COST MIXED-SIGNAL PLATFORM FOR SDR EXPERIMENTATION

This paper presents the design of a reconfigurable mixedsignal platform used in the Software Defined Radio context. It is a single board part of a pre-existing modular system operating from 1.6 to 2.5 GHz that supports GSM1800, DCS1800, PCS1900, UMTS-FDD, UMTS-TDD and 802.11b standards. Its purpose is to facilitate con figuration and data exchange between a computer and an RF transceiver. Technical choices, design and overall performances of the prototype are discussed.