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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2016.21.5.803

Design and Performance of a Direct RF Sampling Receiver for Simultaneous Reception of Multiband GNSS Signals  

Choi, Jong-Won (Department of Electronics Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
Seo, Bo-Seok (Department of Electronics Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.21, no.5, 2016 , pp. 803-815 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we design a direct radio frequency (RF) sampling receiver for multiband GNSS signals and demonstrate its performance. The direct RF sampling is a technique that does not use an analog mixer, but samples the passband signal directly, and all receiver processes are done in digital domain, whereas the conventional intermediate frequency (IF) receiver samples the IF band signals. In contrast to the IF sampling receiver, the RF sampling receiver is less complex in hardware, reconfigurable, and simultaneously converts multiband signals to digital signals with an analog-to-digital (AD) converter. The reconfigurability and simultaneous reception are very important in military applications where rapid change to other system is needed when a system is jammed by an enemy. For simultaneous reception of multiband signals, the sampling frequency should be selected with caution by considering the carrier frequencies, bandwidths, desired intermediate frequencies, and guard bands. In this paper, we select a sampling frequency and design a direct RF sampling receiver to receive multiband global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals such as GPS L1, GLONASS G1 and G2 signals. The receiver is implemented with a commercial AD converter and software. The receiver performance is demonstrated by receiving the real signals.
Keywords
GNSS; GPS; GLONASS; direct RF sampling; multiband receiver;
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