| Wireless communication systems have enjoyed explosive growth over the past few years. As demands for increased capacity and quality grow, improved interface with high speed and flexibility must be implemented. The use of newly-developed analog, digital and DSP hardware make it possible to meet these needs. With proper hardware and software interface between those components, one can actually build up a versatile system which can be used to communicate with many devices with different protocols, to form a simple measurement instrument or the front end of the software radio system, etc. This thesis describes a new wireless receiver that has been interfaced to compact range radar system at the ElectroSeience Laboratory of the Ohio State University. It also describes how the software and hardware system are used to interface the radar with the computer system in order to control the radar system and collect the data. |
