View the latest edition of Pentek's "Digital Receiver Handbook: Basics of Software Radio". This handbook shows how digital receivers can replace conventional analog receiver designs, offering significant benefits in performance, density and cost.
Recent Additions
Software Defined Radio Handbook, 7th Edition
Technical Paper
White Paper The folks at Pentek, who wrote the book on software radio, are pleased to announce their recently released and expanded Software Radio Handbook. Now in its 7th edition, the handbook proves to be a useful technical reference for engineers.
FPGA-based software radio PMC
Design Article
Using a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA, Pentek's high-density software radio PMC has 256 DDC Channels and four 200 MHz 16-bit A/Ds.
High-Speed Switched Serial Fabrics Improve System Design
Technical Paper
Handbook This handbook reviews the development of gigabit switched serial fabrics to enhance the VMEbus and PMC mezzanines. It discusses the role of FPGAs in implementing them, and how some VXS and XMC products can be used in high-speed data acquisition, recording, and software radio.
C6000 vs. PowerPC, part 3: Tools, OSs, and support
Design Article
Part 3 of this 3-part series compares the tools, OSs, and support for the PowerPC and the C6000. It also looks at example applications for the processors.
