Software Defined Radio (SDR) 101. What is an SDR? A Software-Defined Radio(SDR), is a radio environment that has all the front end devices(amplifiers, mixers, IQ units, CPLD, mod/demod equipment) in hardware and the operation of all these equipment including but not limited to signals processing is done using software. How is it useful? Consider this scenario you are behind lines somewhere in a godforsaken land, and you need to have a very re-programmable front end and flexible signals processing software that can be swapped at will. Et Voila enter SDR, change the software, and modify the front end code you got real-time signals intelligence on the field. Apart from that in the civvie world, it's used for the analysis of radio signals be it sub-1-GHz systems and analysis and security assessment of wireless systems. Some SDR. RTL-SDR, cheap effective for understanding stuff regarding SDR and it's accompanying software which is mostly GnuRadio Companion(GRC), L...
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