CR-GENI - GENI Open Cognitive Radio Platform

1. CR-GENI - GENI Open Cognitive Radio Platform Dirk Grunwald , Peter Wolniansky, Prasanthi Maddala, Khanh Le, Ivan Seskar RTS CR-GENI Kit Data Flow CR-GENI Libraries HW Platform - Phase 0 • Basic Building Blocks : • Common – DAC IF, ADC IF, SPI IF, Reg Map, … • Networking – Ethernet, PCIe, RS232,… • DSP – Sine wave gen., AWGN, Filters,… • Communication – Mod/Demod, OFDM blocks,… • Xilinx V5LX50 FPGA • Gigabit Ethernet • 2 Half duplex RF modules • 20 MHz band • 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz Simulink Spectrum Sensing App. Example CR-GENI Kit Hardware Platform - Range of FPGAs - Wideband (tuning) radio modules Firmware - Easy to use VHDL/ Simulink (drag & drop) blocks - Fast prototyping Software - TCP/IP network capable - Support VITA Radio Transport protocol HW Platform - Phase 1 • V5LX50/SX95 • PCI express bus • 4 Full duplex RF modules • 25 MHz baseband • 300 – 6000 MHz R4 Development Framework: Radio System with Pluggable User Applications HW Platform - Phase 2 • Multiple FPGAs • PCI express bus/Optical links • 2 Full duplex RF modules per FPGA • 25-500 MHz baseband • 100 – 7500 MHz