This dissertation is concerned with the thesis that it is possible for a software defined radio system that has been described in accordance with synchronous data flow theory to be implemented upon a reconfigurable computing platform

Inggs, Gordon Eric

Cape Town University OpenUCT

A Comparison of Eleven Static Heuristics for Mapping a Class of Independent Tasks onto Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Systems.

A high-level compilation toolchain for heterogeneous systems.

A spiral model of software development and enhancement.

A uniﬁed hardware/software runtime environment for FPGA-based reconﬁgurable computers using BORPH.

An algorithm for the machine calculation of complex Fourier series.

An FPGA-based cognitive radio framework.

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Development of Radio Astronomy Instrumentation Using Open Source FPGA Boards, Tools and Libraries,

Digital Instrumentation for the Radio Astronomy Community.

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Engineering Design of Systems - Models and Methods.

Eric Inggs. An Economy of Logic. Undergraduate ﬁnal year project,

FPGA implementations of fast Fourier transforms for real-time signal and image processing.

GNU radio: tools for exploring the radio frequency spectrum.

Hardware-Software Co-Design of Embedded Reconﬁgurable Architectures.

Heterogeneous computing: challenges and opportunities.

High-Level Design Methodology for Ultra-Fast Software Deﬁned Radio Prototyping on Heterogeneous Platforms.

IEEE 1220: For Practical Systems Engineering.

Introduction to communication systems.

LogiCORE IP Fast Fourier Transform v7.1, 2011. 100University of Cape Town

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Open Source Software-Deﬁned Radio : A survey on GNUradio and its applications,

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Practical signal detection and classiﬁcation in gnu radio.

Prototyping scalable digital signal processing systems for radio astronomy using dataﬂow modeling,

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Software deﬁned radio: architectures, systems, and functions.

Software deﬁned radio: the software communications architecture.

Sora : High-Performance Software Radio Using General-Purpose Multi-Core Processors.

Spartan-6 Family Overview,

Static scheduling of synchronous data ﬂow programs for digital signal processing.

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The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary.

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Towards agile systems engineering processes.

Veriﬁcation and validation of simulation models.

Wishbone B4 - WISHBONE System-on-Chip(SoC) Interconnection Architecturefor Portable IP Cores,

Putting the pieces together: the systematic development of a software defined radio toolflow for the Rhino project