A Consistent Design Methodology to Meet SDR Challenges

Software Defined Radio (SDR) is a new technological development that will allow in future to support entirely new transmitter and receiver functions purely defined by software modules. In particular, such modules will also define the underlying hardware architecture on which the transmitter and receiver algorithms will run. While the development of advanced hardware architectures that can support SDR will carry higher initial costs, these costs will stretch over a much larger product range. Since such architectures allow for a complete re-use, the development costs will in average decrease.