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A REVIEW ON VARIOUS TYPES OF SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIOS
(SDRS) IN RADIO COMMUNICATION
Vigneswara Rao Gannapathy1
, Ahamed Fayeez Bin Tuani Ibrahim2
, Zahriladha Bin Zakaria3
, Abdul
Rani Bin Othman4
, Nur Qalbi Binti Jalaudin5
1
Lecturer, Faculty of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM),
76100 Melaka, Malaysia
2
Lecturer, Faculty of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM),
76100 Melaka, Malaysia
3
Lecturer, Faculty of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM),
76100 Melaka, Malaysia
4
Lecturer, Faculty of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM),
76100 Melaka, Malaysia
5
Student, Faculty of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM),
76100 Melaka, Malaysia
Abstract
Software Defined Radio (SDR) promises to deliver a cost effective and flexible solution by implementing a wide variety of wireless
protocols in software. The SDR became more popular in recent years because of its abilities to realize many applications without
a lot of efforts in the integration of different component. This software based radio device allows engineers to add more features
to the communication system and implement any number of different signal processing elements or protocols without changing the
original system hardware and its architecture. It provides a customizable and portable communications platform for many
applications, including the prototyping and realization of wireless protocols and their performances. It is also able to interface
with a separate hardware module to communicate over a real channel. In this article we described and compared the various
SDRs that currently has been using by the researchers to study the performance of wireless protocol. Among the SDRs that we
focused in this article are USRP, SORA, Air blue, SODA, and WARP.
Keywords: Software Defined Radio, USRP, SORA, Air blue, SODA, WARP
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1. INTRODUCTION
In 1992, Joseph Mitola proposed the basic concept of
Software Defined Radio (SDR). SDR is the current radio
communication which is implemented from the previous
radio components, such as filters, modulation, de-
modulation, detectors, amplifiers, and mixers in software[1].
The motherboard is placed between the daughter board (RF
front-end) and host computer at both transmitter and receiver.
ADC/DAC changes the data format from analogue to digital
and vice versa. Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is
used to execute high bandwidth mathematical calculations
such as decimation, modulation/demodulation, and digital
down conversion, digital up conversion and interpolation
signal processing process. The wired is used to transmit and
receive data between motherboard and host computer [2].
The architecture of SDR at the receiver and transmitter are
shown in Figure 1.
The programmable hardware SDR has three approaches such
as embedded digital signal processors (DSPs), Field
Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and General-Purpose
Processor (GPP)[3].
Fig -1: Basic SDR Architecture (a) Receiver (b) Transmitter
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The specialized processor in SDR is called DSP. The
processing of these signals is needed to extract the
information from the signal and it represents the signals
digital as a sequence of numbers or symbols. The basic
operations of the processor include some processes such as
filtering, transformations, modulation, correlation and
convolution[4].
FPGAs are semiconductor devices which consist of logic
components and interconnect that are both programmable.
The element can be combined to perform simple gate level
logic operations such as AND, XOR, etc. The advantages of
the architecture of an FPGA allow the designs to perform
multiple computational operations in parallel. Parallelism
enable substantial data throughput at relatively low lock rates
[5].
The GPP are designed for computers which is personal
computer /workstation. It is easier to program the platform
and makes it flexible. However, high energy consumption is
needed to achieve the performance of objective [6].
Currently SDR can be used to implement simple radio
modem technologies such as Global System for Mobile
Communications (GSM), Wide band Code Division Multiple
Access (WCDMA), WiMAX , Wi-Fi and others.
This paper reviews on the comparison between various types
of Software Defined Radio such as SDR USRP, SDR SORA,
SDR AirBlue, SDR SODA and SDR WARP. The SDR
Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) will be
explained in section II, while section III will discuss about
SDR Software Radio (SORA). Next, SDR AirBlue will be
discussed in section IV, and SDR Signal Processing On-
Demand Architecture (SODA) will be described in section V.
Lastly, SDR Wireless open-Access Research Platform
(WARP) is discussed in section V1.
2. SDR USRP
The USRP is proposed by Ettus Research [7]. USRP is
flexible platform and low cost. The hardware for USRP it
consists of ADC/DAC, FPGA and USB controller [2].
USRP1 consist an Altera Cyclone FPGA. This version
provides 128 MS/s dual DAC, 64 MS/s dual ADC and it
provides data to host processers. USB 2.0 connectivity is
used in this peripheral [8].
USRP2 consist of a Xilinx Spartan 3-2000 FPGA. This
version provides 400 MS/s dual DAC, 100 MS/s dual ADC
and to provide data to host processers using Gigabit Ethernet
interface [9].
In USRP N Series, there are two types which are USRP
N200 and USRP N210. USRP N200 consist a Xilinx Spartan
3A DSP. This version provides 400 MS/s dual DAC,
100MS/s dual ADC and use Gigabit Ethernet interface
offering data to host processors [10].
USRP N210 consist a Xilinx Spartan 3A DSP. This version
provides 400 MS/s dual DAC, 100MS/s dual ADC and
provides data to host processers by using Gigabit Ethernet
interface[11]. USRP2 was no longer exist because it was not
intended to replace the original USRP, which continue to be
sold in parallel to the USRP2. It has been replaced USRP
N200 and USRP N210. The comparison board resources
between USRP1, USRP2, USRP N200 and USRP N210 are
shown in Table 1 below:
Table 1: Comparison Board Resources between USRP1,
USRP2, USRP N200 and USRP N210.
USRP1 USRP 2
USRP
N200
USRP
N210
Interface USB 2.0
Gigabit
Ethernet
Gigabit
Ethernet
Gigabit
Ethernet
Total Host
BW
(MSPS
16b/8b)
8/* 16 50/100 50/100
Daughter
card Slots
2 2 1 1
ADC
Resolution
12 14 14 14
ADC Rate 64 100 100 100
DAC
Resolution
14 16 16 16
DAC Rate 128 400 400 400
Internal
GPS
Disciplined
Oscillator
No No Yes Yes
1PPS/Ref
Inputs
No Yes Yes Yes
2.1 GNU Radio Toolkit
GNU Radio is suggested by Eric Blossom with a group of
developing research and design team from A.D.2000. GNU
radio is an open source project for SDR platforms [1]. It can
be used for Radio Frequency (RF) real time applications. The
signal processing is written in C++. The major application
program offers the flow and connects the blocks via Phyton.
This application is always chosen because of its ease of
programming and flexibility [2].
3. SDR SORA
The SORA project started as a „blue-sky‟ research project in
the Wireless and Networking Group at Microsoft Research
Asia (Beijing, China). The architectures of SDR SORA
contain both software and hardware [13].
In the SORA architecture at the hardware components are a
new radio control board (RCB) with an interchangeable radio
front-end (RF front-end). The contents of hardware element
are Virtex-5 FPGA, PCIe-x8 interface and 256MB of DDR2
Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (SDRAM).
The radio front-end is a hardware element which receives
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and/or transmits radio signals through an antenna. RF front-
end is proposed by Rice University which is capable of
transmitting and receiving a 20MHzchannel at 2.4GHz or
5GHz [14].
The SORA software works in C, with some assembly for
performance-critical processing. It offers necessary system
services and programming support for implementing various
wireless PHY and MAC protocols in a general-purpose
operating systems[13].
4. SDR AIRBLUE
Air blue is developed by Nokia Inc. Airblue consists of a
low-end Altera Cyclone III FPGA. The FPGA possess a
direct connection to a 2.4GHz. The baseband modulation is
40MHz and the RF front-end is 20MHz. The host processor
communicates using high-speed USB[15].
5. SDR SODA
SODA is proposed by ARM Ltd. It consists of four cores,
each containing asymmetric dual pipelines which support
scalar and 32 wide SIMD execution. The arithmetic units are
customized for 16 bits while only a few ports are needed for
the register files and software-controlled scratchpad
memories [16].
SODA processing element (PE) has five main components
which are: 1) a scalar pipeline for sequential operations. 2) a
programmable DMA unit to transfer data between memories
and interface with the outside system. 3) an address
generation unit (AGU) pipeline for providing the addresses
for local memory access. 4) two local scratch- pad for the
SIMD pipeline and the scalar pipeline 5) a SIMD pipeline for
supporting vector operations [17].
6. SDR WARP
This section will be discussed on SDR Wireless open-access
Research Platform. It describes the architecture of SDR
WARP and the key feature of SDR WARP includes FPGA
board V1, FPGA board V2 and WARP V3. The key features
of SDR WARP will be described briefly as in Table 2.
WARP is developed by RICE University research team [18]
and distributed by Mango Communication. WARP is an
extensible, scalable and programmable wireless tool [19]. It
is able to transmit in the 2.4 GHz to 2.5 GHz and to 5.875
GHz range with up to a 40 MHz bandwidth. The central in a
WARP node is the FPGA board. Xilinx FPGA which is
located in the heart of the board provides all the node‟s
processing resources. It consists of a Xilinx FPGA and it
provides daughter card slots that are compatible with all
current WARP daughter card [20].
WARP FPGA board hardware version 1.2 consists of a
Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA. This version provides 10/100
Ethernet interface that is suitable for real-time
communication between the wired network and wireless
environment. There are four daughter card slots in a regular
WARP [21] .
WARP FPGA board hardware version 2.2 consists of a
Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA. It offers 10/100/1000 Ethernet
interface that is suitable for real-time communication
between the wired network and wireless environment. It
provides daughter card slots that are compatible with all
current WARP daughter cards [22].
The latest generation of WARP hardware is WARP V3
which consists of a Xilinx Virtex-6 [23]. It integrates a high
performance FPGA, two flexible RF interfaces and multiple
peripherals to facilitate rapid prototyping of custom wireless
design. The comparison board resources between FPGA
board V1, FPGA board V2 and WARP V3 are shown in
Table 2 below:
Table 2: Comparison Board Resources between FPGA board V1, FPGA board V2 and WARP V3.
FPGA Board V1
FPGA Board V2 WARP V3
Daughter Card
Slots
 4  4  -
Memory
 Two 2MB ZBT
SRAM
 Up to 2GB(DDR2 SO
DIMM Slot)
 DDR3 SO-DIMM
Slot
Ethernet
 One 10/100
interfaces
 One
Gigabit(10/100/1000)
interfaces
 Two Gigabit (1000
Base-T only) interfaces
(via optional SFR
modules)
 Two Gigabit
interfaces
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Multi Gigabit
Transceivers
 8HSSDC 2 ports (2
populated)
 4HSSDC 2 Ports
(Infiniband keyed)
 2 SATA Ports (1 Host,1
Target)
 2 SFP ports
 2.4/5GHz
transceiver(40MHz
RF bandwidth)
 12-bit 170 MSps
DAcs,12-bit
100MSps ADCs
MGT Clocking
 One on board
oscillator
 Flexible Design
 3 on-board oscillators
 Daisy Chain support
 Dual-band PA(20
dBm, Tx power)
 Shared Clocking
MIMO applications
UART
 One RS232 (DB-
9M Port)
 One RS232 (DB-9M
Port)
 One USB/UART
interfaces (FT 232R
Transceiver)
 FMC HPC
expansion slot
User I/O
 2 Seven Segment
Displays
 4 LEDs
 16 Bit TTL I/O
 5 Push Buttons
 3 Seven Segment
Displays
 16 LEDs (6 Red/6
Green/4Yellow)
 16 Bit TTL I/O
 5 Push Buttons
 2 Seven Segment
Displays
 12 LEDs
 4 Push buttons
 4 bit DIP switch
 USB-UART
 16-bit 2.5v I/O
header
The comparison board resources between Air Blue, SODA and WARP are shown in Table 3 below:
Table 3: Comparison Air Blue, SODA and WARP
Air Blue
SODA WARP
 Is an FPGA based SDR
platform.
 It observed importance of
modularity in
programming wireless
protocols.
 It provides two features
latency-insensitivity and
data-driven control.
 Do not provide an
efficient modularity
design framework or
specific support for
programmability.
 The SIMD processor also
been employed for SDR
design to leverage the
advantage of high-
throughput processing.
 It provides
programmability the
massive data parallel
computing model is not
suitable for wireless PHY
modules.
 The GPU based
platforms are too power-
hungry for SDR system.
 It can communicate
with a host
computer through
Ethernet
connections.
 The latest version
of WARP equips a
relatively powerful
FPGA for signal
processing.
 It also provide a
higher processing
capacity than
software based
SDR platforms.
The comparison board resources between USRP1, USRP N200, USRP N210 and SORA are shown in Table 4.
7. CONCLUSION
This article focused on the comparison of various types Software Defined Radios. Each of the architecture of SDR is discussed. It
compares the performances of SDR in a wireless network. Based on the discussion of this article, SDR WARP V3 is the best choice
because it integrates a high performance FPGA, two flexible RF interfaces and multiple peripherals facilitate rapid prototyping of
custom wireless design. The advantage of SDR WARP, it is able to achieve the high symbol rates while execute all the signal
processing inside the FPGA. The GNU Radio software can configure the USRP easily and ease to do programming. The drawback
of GNU Radio is that it does not support 802.11 because of slow data transfer among the USB port to a personal computer.
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Table 4: Comparison USRP1, USRP N200, USRP N210 and SORA.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to take this opportunity to thanks
those who are contributes directly or indirectly in
completion of this article and also for their constructive
comments. In addition, the authors also would like to
express our gratitude to Faculty of Electronic & Computer
Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM),
Melaka, Malaysia for the support and encouragement. The
work in this paper was funded by Research Grant Scheme
that offered to UTeM by Ministry of Higher Education,
Malaysia.
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Engineering (JTEC), ISSN: 2180 - 1843 Vol. 1 No. 1,
pp. 69-76, July - December 2009.
BIOGRAPHIES
Engr. Vigneswara Rao Gannapathy
currently serving as a lecturer in
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka
(UTeM) and he actively involves in
research activities which is related to
electronics and wireless networking. His
research direction has focused on
Wireless Mesh Networks which emerged as a key
technology for next-generation wireless networking
Ahamed Fayeez B Tuani Ibrahim, a
Masters holder in Electronics &
Telecommunication, is a vivid computer
networking enthusiast. His specific
research interest includes low power
network design and programming. He is
a certified Cisco Network Analyst.
Dr. Zahriladha Zakaria, PhD, MIEEE,
BEM, Grad IEM is currently working as
a lecturer at the Faculty of Electronic and
Computer Engineering, University
Teknikal Malaysia Melaka. (UTeM). His
research interests include a variety of
microwave device development such as
planar and non-planar microwave filters, amplifiers and
antennas.
Associate Professor Dr. Abdul Rani
Othman, PhD, is currently working as
lecturer at the Faculty of Electronic and
Computer Engineering, University
Teknikal Malaysia Melaka. (UTeM). His
research interests include a variety of
microwave device development, radio
wave propagation, amplifiers and antennas.

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A review on various types of software defined radios (sdrs) in radio communication

  • 1. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Volume: 03 Issue: 12 | Dec-2014, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 203 A REVIEW ON VARIOUS TYPES OF SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIOS (SDRS) IN RADIO COMMUNICATION Vigneswara Rao Gannapathy1 , Ahamed Fayeez Bin Tuani Ibrahim2 , Zahriladha Bin Zakaria3 , Abdul Rani Bin Othman4 , Nur Qalbi Binti Jalaudin5 1 Lecturer, Faculty of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), 76100 Melaka, Malaysia 2 Lecturer, Faculty of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), 76100 Melaka, Malaysia 3 Lecturer, Faculty of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), 76100 Melaka, Malaysia 4 Lecturer, Faculty of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), 76100 Melaka, Malaysia 5 Student, Faculty of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), 76100 Melaka, Malaysia Abstract Software Defined Radio (SDR) promises to deliver a cost effective and flexible solution by implementing a wide variety of wireless protocols in software. The SDR became more popular in recent years because of its abilities to realize many applications without a lot of efforts in the integration of different component. This software based radio device allows engineers to add more features to the communication system and implement any number of different signal processing elements or protocols without changing the original system hardware and its architecture. It provides a customizable and portable communications platform for many applications, including the prototyping and realization of wireless protocols and their performances. It is also able to interface with a separate hardware module to communicate over a real channel. In this article we described and compared the various SDRs that currently has been using by the researchers to study the performance of wireless protocol. Among the SDRs that we focused in this article are USRP, SORA, Air blue, SODA, and WARP. Keywords: Software Defined Radio, USRP, SORA, Air blue, SODA, WARP --------------------------------------------------------------------***------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. INTRODUCTION In 1992, Joseph Mitola proposed the basic concept of Software Defined Radio (SDR). SDR is the current radio communication which is implemented from the previous radio components, such as filters, modulation, de- modulation, detectors, amplifiers, and mixers in software[1]. The motherboard is placed between the daughter board (RF front-end) and host computer at both transmitter and receiver. ADC/DAC changes the data format from analogue to digital and vice versa. Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is used to execute high bandwidth mathematical calculations such as decimation, modulation/demodulation, and digital down conversion, digital up conversion and interpolation signal processing process. The wired is used to transmit and receive data between motherboard and host computer [2]. The architecture of SDR at the receiver and transmitter are shown in Figure 1. The programmable hardware SDR has three approaches such as embedded digital signal processors (DSPs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and General-Purpose Processor (GPP)[3]. Fig -1: Basic SDR Architecture (a) Receiver (b) Transmitter
  • 2. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Volume: 03 Issue: 12 | Dec-2014, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 204 The specialized processor in SDR is called DSP. The processing of these signals is needed to extract the information from the signal and it represents the signals digital as a sequence of numbers or symbols. The basic operations of the processor include some processes such as filtering, transformations, modulation, correlation and convolution[4]. FPGAs are semiconductor devices which consist of logic components and interconnect that are both programmable. The element can be combined to perform simple gate level logic operations such as AND, XOR, etc. The advantages of the architecture of an FPGA allow the designs to perform multiple computational operations in parallel. Parallelism enable substantial data throughput at relatively low lock rates [5]. The GPP are designed for computers which is personal computer /workstation. It is easier to program the platform and makes it flexible. However, high energy consumption is needed to achieve the performance of objective [6]. Currently SDR can be used to implement simple radio modem technologies such as Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), Wide band Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), WiMAX , Wi-Fi and others. This paper reviews on the comparison between various types of Software Defined Radio such as SDR USRP, SDR SORA, SDR AirBlue, SDR SODA and SDR WARP. The SDR Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) will be explained in section II, while section III will discuss about SDR Software Radio (SORA). Next, SDR AirBlue will be discussed in section IV, and SDR Signal Processing On- Demand Architecture (SODA) will be described in section V. Lastly, SDR Wireless open-Access Research Platform (WARP) is discussed in section V1. 2. SDR USRP The USRP is proposed by Ettus Research [7]. USRP is flexible platform and low cost. The hardware for USRP it consists of ADC/DAC, FPGA and USB controller [2]. USRP1 consist an Altera Cyclone FPGA. This version provides 128 MS/s dual DAC, 64 MS/s dual ADC and it provides data to host processers. USB 2.0 connectivity is used in this peripheral [8]. USRP2 consist of a Xilinx Spartan 3-2000 FPGA. This version provides 400 MS/s dual DAC, 100 MS/s dual ADC and to provide data to host processers using Gigabit Ethernet interface [9]. In USRP N Series, there are two types which are USRP N200 and USRP N210. USRP N200 consist a Xilinx Spartan 3A DSP. This version provides 400 MS/s dual DAC, 100MS/s dual ADC and use Gigabit Ethernet interface offering data to host processors [10]. USRP N210 consist a Xilinx Spartan 3A DSP. This version provides 400 MS/s dual DAC, 100MS/s dual ADC and provides data to host processers by using Gigabit Ethernet interface[11]. USRP2 was no longer exist because it was not intended to replace the original USRP, which continue to be sold in parallel to the USRP2. It has been replaced USRP N200 and USRP N210. The comparison board resources between USRP1, USRP2, USRP N200 and USRP N210 are shown in Table 1 below: Table 1: Comparison Board Resources between USRP1, USRP2, USRP N200 and USRP N210. USRP1 USRP 2 USRP N200 USRP N210 Interface USB 2.0 Gigabit Ethernet Gigabit Ethernet Gigabit Ethernet Total Host BW (MSPS 16b/8b) 8/* 16 50/100 50/100 Daughter card Slots 2 2 1 1 ADC Resolution 12 14 14 14 ADC Rate 64 100 100 100 DAC Resolution 14 16 16 16 DAC Rate 128 400 400 400 Internal GPS Disciplined Oscillator No No Yes Yes 1PPS/Ref Inputs No Yes Yes Yes 2.1 GNU Radio Toolkit GNU Radio is suggested by Eric Blossom with a group of developing research and design team from A.D.2000. GNU radio is an open source project for SDR platforms [1]. It can be used for Radio Frequency (RF) real time applications. The signal processing is written in C++. The major application program offers the flow and connects the blocks via Phyton. This application is always chosen because of its ease of programming and flexibility [2]. 3. SDR SORA The SORA project started as a „blue-sky‟ research project in the Wireless and Networking Group at Microsoft Research Asia (Beijing, China). The architectures of SDR SORA contain both software and hardware [13]. In the SORA architecture at the hardware components are a new radio control board (RCB) with an interchangeable radio front-end (RF front-end). The contents of hardware element are Virtex-5 FPGA, PCIe-x8 interface and 256MB of DDR2 Synchronous Dynamic Random-Access Memory (SDRAM). The radio front-end is a hardware element which receives
  • 3. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Volume: 03 Issue: 12 | Dec-2014, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 205 and/or transmits radio signals through an antenna. RF front- end is proposed by Rice University which is capable of transmitting and receiving a 20MHzchannel at 2.4GHz or 5GHz [14]. The SORA software works in C, with some assembly for performance-critical processing. It offers necessary system services and programming support for implementing various wireless PHY and MAC protocols in a general-purpose operating systems[13]. 4. SDR AIRBLUE Air blue is developed by Nokia Inc. Airblue consists of a low-end Altera Cyclone III FPGA. The FPGA possess a direct connection to a 2.4GHz. The baseband modulation is 40MHz and the RF front-end is 20MHz. The host processor communicates using high-speed USB[15]. 5. SDR SODA SODA is proposed by ARM Ltd. It consists of four cores, each containing asymmetric dual pipelines which support scalar and 32 wide SIMD execution. The arithmetic units are customized for 16 bits while only a few ports are needed for the register files and software-controlled scratchpad memories [16]. SODA processing element (PE) has five main components which are: 1) a scalar pipeline for sequential operations. 2) a programmable DMA unit to transfer data between memories and interface with the outside system. 3) an address generation unit (AGU) pipeline for providing the addresses for local memory access. 4) two local scratch- pad for the SIMD pipeline and the scalar pipeline 5) a SIMD pipeline for supporting vector operations [17]. 6. SDR WARP This section will be discussed on SDR Wireless open-access Research Platform. It describes the architecture of SDR WARP and the key feature of SDR WARP includes FPGA board V1, FPGA board V2 and WARP V3. The key features of SDR WARP will be described briefly as in Table 2. WARP is developed by RICE University research team [18] and distributed by Mango Communication. WARP is an extensible, scalable and programmable wireless tool [19]. It is able to transmit in the 2.4 GHz to 2.5 GHz and to 5.875 GHz range with up to a 40 MHz bandwidth. The central in a WARP node is the FPGA board. Xilinx FPGA which is located in the heart of the board provides all the node‟s processing resources. It consists of a Xilinx FPGA and it provides daughter card slots that are compatible with all current WARP daughter card [20]. WARP FPGA board hardware version 1.2 consists of a Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA. This version provides 10/100 Ethernet interface that is suitable for real-time communication between the wired network and wireless environment. There are four daughter card slots in a regular WARP [21] . WARP FPGA board hardware version 2.2 consists of a Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA. It offers 10/100/1000 Ethernet interface that is suitable for real-time communication between the wired network and wireless environment. It provides daughter card slots that are compatible with all current WARP daughter cards [22]. The latest generation of WARP hardware is WARP V3 which consists of a Xilinx Virtex-6 [23]. It integrates a high performance FPGA, two flexible RF interfaces and multiple peripherals to facilitate rapid prototyping of custom wireless design. The comparison board resources between FPGA board V1, FPGA board V2 and WARP V3 are shown in Table 2 below: Table 2: Comparison Board Resources between FPGA board V1, FPGA board V2 and WARP V3. FPGA Board V1 FPGA Board V2 WARP V3 Daughter Card Slots  4  4  - Memory  Two 2MB ZBT SRAM  Up to 2GB(DDR2 SO DIMM Slot)  DDR3 SO-DIMM Slot Ethernet  One 10/100 interfaces  One Gigabit(10/100/1000) interfaces  Two Gigabit (1000 Base-T only) interfaces (via optional SFR modules)  Two Gigabit interfaces
  • 4. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Volume: 03 Issue: 12 | Dec-2014, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 206 Multi Gigabit Transceivers  8HSSDC 2 ports (2 populated)  4HSSDC 2 Ports (Infiniband keyed)  2 SATA Ports (1 Host,1 Target)  2 SFP ports  2.4/5GHz transceiver(40MHz RF bandwidth)  12-bit 170 MSps DAcs,12-bit 100MSps ADCs MGT Clocking  One on board oscillator  Flexible Design  3 on-board oscillators  Daisy Chain support  Dual-band PA(20 dBm, Tx power)  Shared Clocking MIMO applications UART  One RS232 (DB- 9M Port)  One RS232 (DB-9M Port)  One USB/UART interfaces (FT 232R Transceiver)  FMC HPC expansion slot User I/O  2 Seven Segment Displays  4 LEDs  16 Bit TTL I/O  5 Push Buttons  3 Seven Segment Displays  16 LEDs (6 Red/6 Green/4Yellow)  16 Bit TTL I/O  5 Push Buttons  2 Seven Segment Displays  12 LEDs  4 Push buttons  4 bit DIP switch  USB-UART  16-bit 2.5v I/O header The comparison board resources between Air Blue, SODA and WARP are shown in Table 3 below: Table 3: Comparison Air Blue, SODA and WARP Air Blue SODA WARP  Is an FPGA based SDR platform.  It observed importance of modularity in programming wireless protocols.  It provides two features latency-insensitivity and data-driven control.  Do not provide an efficient modularity design framework or specific support for programmability.  The SIMD processor also been employed for SDR design to leverage the advantage of high- throughput processing.  It provides programmability the massive data parallel computing model is not suitable for wireless PHY modules.  The GPU based platforms are too power- hungry for SDR system.  It can communicate with a host computer through Ethernet connections.  The latest version of WARP equips a relatively powerful FPGA for signal processing.  It also provide a higher processing capacity than software based SDR platforms. The comparison board resources between USRP1, USRP N200, USRP N210 and SORA are shown in Table 4. 7. CONCLUSION This article focused on the comparison of various types Software Defined Radios. Each of the architecture of SDR is discussed. It compares the performances of SDR in a wireless network. Based on the discussion of this article, SDR WARP V3 is the best choice because it integrates a high performance FPGA, two flexible RF interfaces and multiple peripherals facilitate rapid prototyping of custom wireless design. The advantage of SDR WARP, it is able to achieve the high symbol rates while execute all the signal processing inside the FPGA. The GNU Radio software can configure the USRP easily and ease to do programming. The drawback of GNU Radio is that it does not support 802.11 because of slow data transfer among the USB port to a personal computer.
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  • 7. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308 _______________________________________________________________________________________ Volume: 03 Issue: 12 | Dec-2014, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 209 Engineering (JTEC), ISSN: 2180 - 1843 Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 69-76, July - December 2009. BIOGRAPHIES Engr. Vigneswara Rao Gannapathy currently serving as a lecturer in Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) and he actively involves in research activities which is related to electronics and wireless networking. His research direction has focused on Wireless Mesh Networks which emerged as a key technology for next-generation wireless networking Ahamed Fayeez B Tuani Ibrahim, a Masters holder in Electronics & Telecommunication, is a vivid computer networking enthusiast. His specific research interest includes low power network design and programming. He is a certified Cisco Network Analyst. Dr. Zahriladha Zakaria, PhD, MIEEE, BEM, Grad IEM is currently working as a lecturer at the Faculty of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University Teknikal Malaysia Melaka. (UTeM). His research interests include a variety of microwave device development such as planar and non-planar microwave filters, amplifiers and antennas. Associate Professor Dr. Abdul Rani Othman, PhD, is currently working as lecturer at the Faculty of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University Teknikal Malaysia Melaka. (UTeM). His research interests include a variety of microwave device development, radio wave propagation, amplifiers and antennas.