UNB ECE Thesis pdfLaTeX Template

Terms of Use and Disclaimer

J. Andy Harriman retains the copyright of his master's thesis from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of New Brunswick (UNB). However, to assist others in typesetting their theses, he has made available all the files that he used. Use these files at your own risk. Neither J. Andy Harriman nor Brent R. Petersen are responsible for any problems that arise. However, if you have any comments, we would be glad to try to incorporate your suggestions.

Software

• The thesis was written under Windows xp using:
  • BibTeX Reference manager - JabRef 2.0.1 (http://jabref.sourceforge.net/),
  • TeX Distribution - MiKTeX 2.4 (http://www.miktex.org/),
  • TeX Editor - TeXnicCenter 1.0 Beta 7 (http://texniccenter.sourceforge.net/), and
  • Ghostscript, GSView, GIMP 2, and ps2pdf.
• Ghostscript, GSView, and GIMP 2 were used to edit and convert images and figures. The MiKTeX distribution tended to like PDF figures more so than PS or EPS. PS to PDF conversions were done at the command line using ps2pdf.
• Typesetting the files was also tested with the command pdflatex under Mac OS X and OpenBSD.

The Typeset Thesis

Citation

Abstract

We propose a novel software-defined radio implementation of a four-channel transceiver testbed with signalling-wavelength-spaced antennas. The radio frequency side of the system is implemented using commercial off-the-shelf products, whereas the baseband processing portion of the system is implemented on a pair of Altera® Stratix® II EP2S180 development boards with high-speed Analog Devices analog-to-digital converter daughter boards. The Altera® field programmable gate array is used to implement digital signal processing algorithms and to affect centralized control over the entire system. A goal was to create a testbed for algorithms and radio channel measurements.

Acknowledgements