From Bits
to Recovery.

Follow a wireless signal through its three defining stages: construction, propagation, and recovery. A connected series of technical articles.

01 / TRANSMITTER02 / CHANNEL03 / RECEIVER

THE SERIES / 001—003SCHEMATICS ARE EXPLANATORY, NOT MEASURED DATA

WAVECORE X / FIELD NOTESSCHEMATIC · NOT MEASURED

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01 / THE TRANSMITTERTRANSMIT CHAIN

From Raw Bits to a Wireless Signal: Building a Software-Defined Physical Layer

The beginning of the signal path: bits, mapping, and the transformation into a transmit waveform.

WAVECORE X / FIELD NOTESSCHEMATIC · NOT MEASURED

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02 / THE CHANNELCHANNEL MODELING

A look at how channel models describe the disturbances between transmission and reception.

WAVECORE X / FIELD NOTESSCHEMATIC · NOT MEASURED

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03 / THE RECEIVERRECEIVE CHAIN

The recovery side of the chain: the concepts behind interpreting an impaired signal.