Remote wideband data acquiring system based on ZC706 and AD9361

Abstract

With the rapid development of embedded and wireless technology, the combination of embedded system with wireless technology has gradually become a research hotspot. This paper proposes a data acquiring embedded system based on AD9361 (high speed ADC) and ZC706 (high performance FPGA embedded platform).The purpose of the proposed system in this paper is to capture wireless signal from bandwidth varies from 70 MHz to 6 GHz. Also, the system provided interface for users to adjust parameters including sampling rate, bandwidth, sampling center frequency, sampling time length, data storage. This embedded system project consists of hardware system design and software design. The hardware system is based on the combination of ARM processor and FPGA, the software is based on Software Development Kit (SDK) provided by Xilinx. Most of all, a remote data acquiring system which is based on server and client model is developed for rapid data transmission and storage through ETHERNET.