System on Chip Development Platform for Software Defined Radio

Abstract

In a rapidly growing domain, Software Defined Radio platforms prove to be a sustainable and efficient way of testing and developing new features. By using the Xilinx Zynq-7000 programmable SoC (System on Chip), based on an ARM processor coupled with a FPGA (Field-programmable Gate Array) integrated circuit allows us to combine unique features into flexible and versatile implementations. The platform benefits from the large amount of existing support that a Linux based open-sourced software can bring to an embedded system with the highly reconfigurable logic blocks that can be used with the FPGA. This paper presents the method for setting up an Software Defined Radio work environment around Zynq processing system and Xilinx programmable logic

SDR Implementation of a D2D Security Cryptographic Mechanism

“…A description of the environment setup on Zedboard and the usage of the ARM core using a Linux operating system was presented by Dustinta and Stanciu [27].…”

“…Device A is running a GNU application over a Linaro operating system that receives the encrypted data from Device B. Details regarding this implementation are presented in [27]. Device B is using the HDL reference design presented in [32], the version with ARM microprocessor which runs a C code in order to transmit encrypted data.…”