Important Books

Software Defined Radio: with GNU Radio and USRP (Hardcover)

Publisher: McGraw-Hill | Pages: 320 | January 2009 | ISBN 0071498834 | 1st edition | by Cory Clark

Amazon / McGraw-Hill Professional

Chapter 1. What is Software Defined Radio
Chapter 2. SDR Block Diagrams
Chapter 3. SDR Applications
Chapter 4. The GNU Radio Project
Chapter 5. Downloading and Installing the GNU Radio
Chapter 6. Using Hardware with GNU Radio
Chapter 7. Bandwidth and Sample Rate Considerations
Chapter 8. FPGAs
Chapter 9. Generic A/Ds
Chapter 10. The USRP Hardware Boards
Chapter 11. Getting Started with Simple Analog Signals
Chapter 12. GSM
Chapter 13. 802.xx
Chapter 14. OFDM
Chapter 15. Working Examples
Chapter 16. HD Radio
Chapter 17. Spectrum Analyser

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Signal Processing Techniques for Software Radio (Softcover)

Publisher: Self-published Lulu | Pages: 380 | 2008 | by Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny

Buy / Table of Content / Book’s CD

This book puts together a collection of signal processing algorithms, filter design methods, and signal processing techniques (tricks) to provide the practicing engineers with the tools necessary for efficient implementation of software defined radios. To demonstrate the implementation of various algorithms on a software radio platform and also to demonstrate their performance, MATLAB scripts (programs) are presented throughout the book.

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You could also check out GNU Radio’s own list of Suggested Reading.