Overview

In this part you'll learn about the architecture behind the software-radio. If you're looking for a precise information, you may be better off by looking at the reference-part of this document.

A general view can be seen in fig. @overview GUI/Signal Processing/Antenna@. For each of these elements, you can find a chapter that describes it in more detail. The list of chapters include also more general descriptions of the software-radio:

• GUI Is the Graphical User Interface, that allows to interact with the software-radio on a user-level
• Signal Processing is the ensemble of all interchangeable participants that make the active part of the software-radio
• Antenna represents the transmission and reception part of the software-radio, either in simulation or in real-time mode
• Operating system how the different parts of RTLinux and linux play together
• Modes of Operation gives an overview of the different modes of the software-radio
• Hardware which shows the architecture of the ICS-hardware
• Code the different directories in the tar-ball of the software-radio