Software-Defined Radio for Engineers

Livro digital

Título:
Software-Defined Radio for Engineers

Autor:
Travis Collins

Categoria:
Tecnologia > Geral

Doador:
Raffaello D. N.

Sinopse:
Radio is no longer a black box of analog components — software-defined radio has moved signal processing from circuit boards to code, making the electromagnetic spectrum a programmable resource. This textbook spans the complete SDR stack: from the physics of radio frequency propagation and antenna theory through sampling, quantization, and the digital front-end, before diving into the modulation schemes, synchronization algorithms, and channel coding that separate successful links from theoretical ones. The second half shifts from foundations to implementation, covering FPGA-based acceleration, GNU Radio workflows, MIMO systems, and practical deployment challenges like timing recovery and carrier frequency offset correction. Each chapter balances mathematical rigor with executable examples, treating the reader as an engineer who needs to build, not just understand. Written by practicing engineers with deep industry experience and adopted in professional training contexts, this 375-page volume is a reference-grade introduction for wireless engineers, embedded systems developers, and anyone building the next generation of software-defined communication systems. The emphasis throughout is on the engineering decisions that matter — when to use an FPGA versus a general-purpose processor, how to design a receiver chain, and what goes wrong when the math hits the antenna.