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RHINO: reconfigurable hardware interface for computation and radio

Field-programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, provide an attractive computing platform for software-defined radio applications. Their reconfigurable nature allows many digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms to be highly parallelised within the FPGA fabric, while their customisable I/O interfaces all...

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Main Author: Scott, Simon
Other Authors: Langman, Alan
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Language:English
Published: Department of Electrical Engineering 2015
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description Field-programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, provide an attractive computing platform for software-defined radio applications. Their reconfigurable nature allows many digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms to be highly parallelised within the FPGA fabric, while their customisable I/O interfaces allow simple interfacing to analogue-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analogue converters (DACs). However, FPGA boards that deliver sufficient performance to be useful in real-world applications are generally expensive. Rhino is an FPGA-based hardware processing platform that primarily supports software-defined radio applications. The final cost estimate for a complete Rhino system is under $1700, cheaper than similar FPGA boards that deliver much lower performance.
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11428 RHINO: reconfigurable hardware interface for computation and radio Scott, Simon Langman, Alan Inggs, Michael Electrical Engineering Field-programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, provide an attractive computing platform for software-defined radio applications. Their reconfigurable nature allows many digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms to be highly parallelised within the FPGA fabric, while their customisable I/O interfaces allow simple interfacing to analogue-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analogue converters (DACs). However, FPGA boards that deliver sufficient performance to be useful in real-world applications are generally expensive. Rhino is an FPGA-based hardware processing platform that primarily supports software-defined radio applications. The final cost estimate for a complete Rhino system is under $1700, cheaper than similar FPGA boards that deliver much lower performance. 2015-01-05T18:20:43Z 2015-01-05T18:20:43Z 2011 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11428 eng application/pdf Department of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment University of Cape Town
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RHINO: reconfigurable hardware interface for computation and radio
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title RHINO: reconfigurable hardware interface for computation and radio
title_full RHINO: reconfigurable hardware interface for computation and radio
title_fullStr RHINO: reconfigurable hardware interface for computation and radio
title_full_unstemmed RHINO: reconfigurable hardware interface for computation and radio
title_short RHINO: reconfigurable hardware interface for computation and radio
title_sort rhino reconfigurable hardware interface for computation and radio
topic Electrical Engineering
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