FPGA Implementation of AM-FM

Abstract

The wireless market of the future will demand inexpensive hardware, expandability, interoperability, and the implementation of advanced signal processing functions—i.e. a software radio. The purpose of this study is to evaluate a low-cost Software Defined Radio (SDR). The AM/FM radio receiver will later be implemented using a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Using FPGA as the hardware platform, this approach brings together the flexibility of software and the speed of hardware to build a reconfigurable system, i.e. the behavior of the radio receiver can be changed by simply modifying the software without new hardware.