Hardware evaluation platform based on GNU Radio and the USRP

Abstract: GNU Radio is a software framework allowing easy creation of digital signal processing applications on a regular PC. The Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) is a hardware component that can be used as a radio front-end and that is connected to a PC using USB. GNU Radio and the USRP together form a system for software-defined radio. The purpose of this thesis project have been to insert a large programmable logic circuit into the system that GNU Radio and the USRP together form. The goal of this is to make it possible to move parts of the signal processing away from GNU Radio and instead implement these parts in hardware. Possibilities for doing this has been analyzed and one of the possible systems performing this has been designed.