A Software Defined Radio Transceiver Based on Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration

Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration (DPR) has been used extensively over the past few years allowing reconfiguration of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) during run time. With the aid of DPR, multi-standard Software Defined Radio (SDR) system can be implemented in order to save power and area extensively. In this paper, SDR is implemented using five wireless communication systems: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 2G, 3G, and LTE on the same reconfigurable hardware. A test environment is established to measure the effectiveness of the new technique using Zynq-7000. A comparison is performed for the system total area and power consumption with and without DPR. This work achieves reduction of area and power by 10.19% and 76.71% respectively using DPR with an average switching time of 3.49 ms.