Reaearch On The Application Of Rapid Prototyping In The Development Of Software Radio Systems

The key concept of Software Radio is to define and implement the function by software on the basis of general hardware blocks. Such systems are open, easy to upgrade and able to be defined to work in different modes, bands and/or standards.The technology of Rapid Prototyping in electronic technology can realize hardware/software co-design and system-level development. Less attention to details is necessary and the average time of design cycle can be reduced.This paper advances a new idea of combining the two kinds of technology after analyzing the features they have in common. Systems will be efficiently developed with software blocks if system design, simulation, code generation, debugging and the generation of target software radio systems are carried out in an environment for rapid prototyping. In particular, this paper discusses the design schemes in the Mathworks' MATLAB and some plug-in tools. It gives some case studies as well.