Software Defined Radio and Programmable Circuit Design (optional)

Course Holder: Prof. dr. eng. Alexandru MARȚIAN
Laboratory holder: Prof. Dr. Eng. Cristian ANGHEL

The course will provide knowledge regarding flexible and reconfigurable radio equipment. General architectures of SDR systems are given and several aspects related to their design are detailed.
A description of programmable logic array circuits and the FPGA architecture is made and specific languages for design and verification of the digital circuits on FPGA are learned.
During the lab, the SIMULINK environment is used to analyze various aspects regarding a radio communication link and VHDL language is used to design different functional blocks on FPGA.