With the exponential growth in the ways and means by which people need to communicate - data communications, voice communications, video communications, broadcast messaging, command and control communications, emergency response communications, etc. – modifying radio devices easily and cost-effectively has become business-critical. Software-defined radio (SDR) technology brings the flexibility, cost efficiency, and power to drive communications forward, with wide-reaching benefits realized by service providers and product developers through to end-users. In the long term, software-defined radios are expected to become the dominant technology in radio communications.

This is a unique and comprehensive course on SDR. In this course you will learn about:

. Basics of a Software-defined Radio and its evolution from the basic radio

. Significant advantages of using SDR

. Various areas of application of SDR

. Core features that make SDR a very robust technology

. Disadvantages of using an SDR

. A wide array of the Signal Processing Devices

. Comparison of various DSP options to aid decisions on implementation

. Details of major signal processing architectures

. Types of receiver architectures including GPP, FPGA, etc

. SDR standardization tenets and SCA

. Various software-centric platforms used for SDRs including GNURadio, OSSIE, etc

. Learn the GR development flow and the front-end for software radio

. Various stages of the development flow

. Firmware development and software development

Whether you are a professional wanting to know more about SDR systems, or an entrepreneur or a technology developer exploring this as an opportunity, this course will equip you with all you need to know about SDR and its related developments.

So go ahead and take the course!