Abstract

The USRP2 platform is a typical Software Defined Radio system which can be used for transmitting and receiving various kinds of signals. Usable frequency ranges depend on the used daughterboards. For transmitting 802.11a/g and 802.11p signals for example the GNURadio implementation can be used. In this case interpolation factors of 5 and 10 are required. The interpolation of the signal is done on the FPGA to convert the sampling rate to the one used by the DA-Converter. Because of poor frequency responses when using odd interpolation factors, where only simple CIC-Filters are used for interpolation, a new interpolation filter which interpolates by a factor of 5 was implemented on
the FPGA using the hardware description language Verilog. This report includes analysis of the current TX-chain, design and implementation of the new filter.

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