This article investigates the demodulation capabilities of a DSSSsuper-regenerative receiver. Starting from the general expressionthat characterizes the receiver's behavior, we demonstrate that afew ...

Single HD frame of NBC's Law and Order captured, demoded and decoded via software. More than 100 companies have now banded together to form the Software Defined Radio (SDR) forum. This group is ...

Testing FM receivers is not that much different than testing other pieces of audio equipment. Appropriate tests include the big six: level, frequency response, THD+N, phase, interchannel crosstalk, ...

There was a time when making a radio receiver involved significant work, much winding of coils, and tricky alignment of circuitry. The advent of Software Defined Radio (SDR) has moved a lot of this ...

Research Fellow and Writer-in-Residence, CONNECT, The Centre for Future Networks, Trinity College Dublin Norway is the first country in Europe to switch off FM transmissions, a move which has been ...

Some models of Blackberry smartphones already have FM radio receivers built in – but they haven’t been activated. Until now. Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) announced at the Consumer ...