In 1976, two shaggy-haired college dropouts founded a company called Apple to manufacture personal computers. The company’s prospects looked so poor that the third co-founder relinquished his 10 ...

SDR (software-defined radio) promises operators massive cost reductions. Cognitive radio will soon furnish bandwidth on demand. SDR forces re-evaluation of superhet and direct-conversion technologies.

We are entering a new era of radio technology. A new approach to building radios has made devices like multi-band cell phones and the ubiquitous USB TV receivers that seamlessly flit from frequency to ...

Software-defined radio (SDR) is a radio communication technology that implements conventional hardware components using software. The motivation behind SDR-based systems is reprogrammability and ease ...

Like almost everything else in electronics, radios are becoming processors with software that communicate via a small amount of RF I/O circuitry. Surely, then, the rise of software-defined radio (SDR) ...

A technology that could transform wireless communications got a boost on Friday when the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced its first approval of a software-defined radio. The Vanu ...

Software defined radio (SDR) has been one of your popular search topics this year on RF DesignLine. Recently I had the opportunity to hear from some people who are very active in this market: Frank ...