1.1 Introduction to Software-Defined Radio With the exponential growth in the ways and means by which people need tocommunicate - data communications, voice communications, videocommunications, 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) technologybrings the flexibility, cost efficiency and power to drive communications forward,with wide-reaching benefits realized by service providers and product developersthrough to end users.Simply put Software Defined Radio is defined as:
"Radio in which some or all of the physical layer functions are software defined" Software-Defined Radio (SDR) refers to the technology wherein software modulesrunning on a generic hardware platform consisting of DSPs and general purposemicroprocessors are used to implement radio functions such as generation of transmitted signal (modulation) at transmitter and tuning/detection of receivedradio signal (demodulation) at receiver.SDR technology can be used to implement military, commercial and civilian radioapplications. A wide range of radio applications like Bluetooth, WLAN, GPS,