Excerpted from Digital Receiver Handbook: Basics of Software Radio Sixth Edition, this series of articles from Pentek shows how digital receivers, the fundamental building block for software radio, ...

DragonOS, a Debian-based Linux distribution specifically packaged for software-defined radio functionality, roared onto the wavelengths during the beginnings of the various pandemic lockdowns last ...

Upper Saddle River, N.J. – A digital receiver from Pentek Inc. equips a single VME slot to handle four complete wideband software-radio receiver channels, reducing system space, power and cost. The ...

A radio receiver consisting of just a very good analog-to-digital converter connected directly to the antenna plus a powerful computer could make a great radio. However, the present state of the ...

With the advent of software defined radio platforms in military aerospace and now more recently in some consumer radio and electronics segments, the usefulness of Field programmable logic (FPGAs) as ...

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 ...

Designed to maximize configuration flexibility, switching, and synchronization, a new series of multiband digital receivers from Pentek should meet the needs of those designers who need a flexible ...

[Jeri Ellsworth] has been working on a direct conversion receiver using an FPGA as an oscillator and a PC sound card DSP. Being the excellent presenter she is, she first goes through the history and ...

There is a new breed of RF receivers known as software-defined radios, and they are revolutionizing the way in which people listen to shortwave (SW) radio, or indeed any form of radio broadcast. SDRs ...

One of the things about being in lockdown here in London is that I've had time to work on various projects that have been sat on the back burner. So in the last three months or so, I've set up a much ...

THE RADIO. It’s been around for more than 100 years. Pioneering work by Guglielmo Marconi and others in the1890s and 1900s resulted in practical wireless telegraphy devices that permitted ...