High Dynamic Range Resampling for Software Radio

The classic problem of recovering arbitrary values of a band-limited signal from its samples has an added complication in software radio applications; namely, the resampling calculations inevitably fold aliases of the analog signal back into the original bandwidth. The phenomenon is quantified by the spur-free dynamic range. We demonstrate how a novel application of the Remez (Parks- McClellan) algorithm permits optimal signal recovery and SFDR, far surpassing state-of-the-art resamplers.

Authors:

• Arthur David Snider
• Laiq Azam

Keywords:

• Sampling methods
• Signal sampling
• Digital radio
• Digital-analog conversion.

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