Software receiver technology and its applications

It is expected that software receivers will be widely available for radio c ommunication, broadcasting and ra dio monitoring applications because they are able to be equipped with multimode, multirate and multiband functions i n a single hardware platform. This paper describes the basic techniques req uired for software receivers for both hardware and software. The evaluation items and methods were studied and some evaluations done with an experimen tal software receiver model fabricated for radio monitoring applications. F uture concepts in radio communication, broadcasting and radio monitoring ap plications where software receivers are thought to be suitable, were studie d, and problems for realization identified.