Real-time GSM broadcast receiver on a Cortex-M4 microcontroller

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Publikationsdatum
2018-03-09
Sprache
English
Author
Erhardt, Stefan 
Pflaum, Felix 
Weigel, Robert 
Kölpin, Alexander orcid-logo
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/6561
Volume
2018-January
Start Page
55
End Page
58
Citation
IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks, WiSNet: 55-58 (2018-03-09)
Contribution to Conference
IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks, WiSNet 2018 
Publisher DOI
10.1109/WISNET.2018.8311563
Recent microcontrollers provide enough computing power to perform signal processing while still being energy efficient and enable more flexibility than FPGAs. A fully functional GSM broadcast receiver was implemented on a Cortex-M4 microcontroller that is able to decode broadcast control channel (BCCH) messages. With several algorithmic optimizations it is able to operate in real-time in combination with a Sub-GHz transceiver as RF front-end. The timing was proven by measurements with an logic analyzer.