Research Article

Space-Based FPGA Radio Receiver Design, Debug, and Development of a Radiation-Tolerant Computing System

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Comparing direct conversion to super-heterodyne architectures. The direct conversion approach does not require an external local oscillator. Rather, the FPGA synthesizes a local oscillator and computationally tunes the desired RF channel.
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