Wideband TV White Space Transceiver Design and Implementation

—For transceivers operating in television white space (TVWS), frequency agility and strict spectral mask fulfilments are vital. In the UK, TVWS covers a 320 MHz wide frequency band in the UHF range, and the aim of this paper is to present a wideband digital up- and down converter for this scenario. Sampling at RF, a two stage digital conversion is presented, which consists of a polyphase filter for implicit upsampling and decimation, and a filter bank-based multicarrier approach to resolve the 8MHz channels within the TVWS band. We demonstrate that the up- and down-conversion of 40 such channels is hardly more costly than that of a single channel. Appropriate filter design can satisfy the mandated spectral mask and control the reconstruction error. An FPGA implementation is discussed, capable of running the wideband transceiver on a single Virtex-7 device with sufficient word length to preserve the spectral mask requirements of the system.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2016
• Where: TCAS
• Authors: Ross A. Elliot, Martin A. Enderwitz, Keith Thompson, Louise H. Crockett, Stephan D. Weiss, Robert W. Stewart
• Keywords: TCAS 2016