Mixed-Signal Multimode Radio Software/Hardware Development Platform

In this article, a multimode transmitter and feedback receiver implementation are presented, the feedback frequency response correction is described, circuit of a programmable and phase-coherent synthesizer is outlined, and the developed signal processing algorithms and dashboard are detailed.

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