KSU's Digital Radio Hardware Design Class

Introduction
The overall goal of this class was to design, fabricate, and test a complete working digital 900 MHz cordless phone within a single semester. Read on to see how we accomplished this...
The Semester in Pictures
Critical Design Reviews
Check out some samples of student viewgraphs describing their designs!
- Block Diagram of RF Transceiver
- Block Diagram of Frequency Synthesizer
- Portion of Transceiver Schematic
- Draft of RF Board Layout
- Block Diagram of Transmitter Path PLD
- Portion of RX Path PLD Schematic
Project Goals and Timeline
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Course Information
Primary Resources Used (Device data sheets, etc.)
- Links to Data Sheets for the receiver and transmitter:
- Links to Data Sheets for the frequency synthesizer:
- Links to Inductor and Filter Products for the RF transceiver
- Links to Data Sheets for the Bit/Frame Sync PLD and ADPCM Codec:
- Data sheet for the EPM7128SLC84-7 Field-Programmable PLD (and others in the MAX 7000 family
- Link to Altera's University Program page You can download the free MAX+PLUS II software from here, as well as request the required authorization codes.
- Listing of additional data sheets and app notes from Altera
- Data sheet for the OKI Semiconductor MSM7560 Codec
- Links to Data Sheets and other info for the Microcontroller/software:
- Link to the 17C4X family of Microcontrollers from Microchip We will probably use the 17C44 in a Ceramic DIP (CerDIP) package since it includes plenty of program and data memory, and has plenty of I/O pins.
- Link to the free Microchip software development tools
- Links to additional electronics manufacturers...
- Links to distributors that we routinely order from:
Software Design Information
- Call Processing
- Flowchart of Top-Level Software Executive
- Flowchart of Call Initiation Code
- Flowchart of Call Reception Code
Homework Assignments (in PDF format)
- Homework Assignment #1 (19k)
- Homework Assignment #2 (37k)
- Homework Assignment #3 (28k)
- Homework Assignment #4 (31k)
- Homework Assignment #5 (6k)
Team Project Assignments (in PDF format)
- Team Number 1: RF Transceiver Designers
- Team Number 2: Digital Hardware PLD Designers
- Team Number 3: Sofware Engineers
- Team Number 4: EDA Tool Specialists and Human Interface Designers
- Critical Design Review Presentation Guidelines
- Test Planning Assignment
- Course Survey Results