Software Defined Radio II

Description of the Project

SDT project has started in September 2009 by BU Information Systems Engineering, Senior Project Students. This software program allows the logging of detected signals with VHF/UHF/Microwave amateur Contests and Radio Astronomy. SDT is implemented using MySQL and C#. This year, we will continue to develop the same project. It is possible to divide this year project in 2 parts;

The first part of the project is about the kiss console hardware handling. There are other teams from ECE/ME departments that work in the same project. W are responsible for the software part of the project. This part will be done end of the fall 2010 semester K.I.S.S (Keep It Simple Stupid) Konsole is written in C# using the free VS 2008 IDE . It is a straight forward PC program that will allow beginners in SDR and DSP programming.

SDT project is including different groups from different departments. Right now some EECE/ME students are developing a box that is FPGA box= Field programmable gate array. That box will be connected to the Radio (SDR-1500) We are going to develop a kiss konsole application for our existing sdt project. The program that we will developed will communicate with the box that is developed by eece/me students. This way we can get the radio signals from box and restore them in our existing database (program).

Current kiss konsole program communicates to radio by USB. In this semester we are responsible to give the usb algotihm that is used by kiss konsole to the EECE/ME students. First of all we should describe a USB for kiss console and radio connection and give this algorithm to the EECE/ME students. Then they can implement this algorithm in VHDL into the Box that they are developed.

Second part of the project is implementing 2 new window to the existing SDT program. Also, the Ethernet communication frame will be decided and explained. This will be done in second semester.

Two new windows are ; Kiss Konsole window and Rotor control window. Mr. Harvilchuck did not give detail about the design of the kiss console and rotor window yet. However, there is existing beta version of the kiss konsole. We will implement similar kiss konsole code like a new frame in our sdt application. Also, Rotor window provides the ability to move the antenna rotors (positioning motors) in 2 directions which are Azimuth and Elevation to select which antennas to use and to select the polarization of the antennas.

Software Reuirements

C# and MySQL programing languages

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

MySQL Server 5.1

Kiss Konsole Application [1]

Ms Project

Project Team

Project Owner

Alex Harvilchuck

Team Members

Beril Burcu Huroglu

Deniz Huseyin Yaman

Emine Ugur Kaynar

Nimet Duru Cilsal