Santos-Luna, Efrain, Prieto-Guerrero, Alfonso, Aguilar-Gonzalez, Rafael, Ramos, Victor, Lopez-Benitez, Miguel ORCID: 0000-0003-0526-6687 and Cardenas-Juarez, Marco
(2019)
A Spectrum Analyzer Based on a Low-Cost Hardware-Software Integration.
In: 2019 IEEE 10th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON), 2019-10-17 - 2019-10-19.
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Abstract
Instruments are a very important tool for the good comprehension of any science. In the engineering electrical field, most of the practice laboratories are equipped with a large set of devices. One of the major challenges to get a complete laboratory is the economic cost. Professional electronic devices as multi-meters, oscilloscopes or spectrum analyzers are quite expensive on the market. Fortunately, with the aid of software-defined radio (SDR), low-cost equipment can be built. A fundamental device in these projects is the RTL-SDR dongle. This electronic accessory captures wireless signals and puts them on a USB port. Therefore, with digital signal processing it is possible to get access to low-cost instruments like spectrum analyzers. In this work, an integration of hardware and software is presented. An application is developed with Python and implemented on a Raspberry Pi3 B+. This proposal captures, demodulates, and displays AM and FM signals. The signals obtained can be observed on frequency or time or can be recorded as well.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Unspecified) |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | RTL-SDR Dongle, Raspberry, Python, FM, AM |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2019 15:28 |
Last Modified: | 15 Mar 2024 06:09 |
DOI: | 10.1109/iemcon.2019.8936239 |
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URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3054967 |