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Hello,
I wish to know if the WARP hardware is used in the development of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) hardware (e.g., base stations, control platforms etc) particularly using the IEEE 802.15.4 (ZigBee, BLuetooth etc) standards. I also wish to know whether I can use it for developing a reconfigurable platform where I can switch the protocol stack for applying the same hardware in different scenarios.
Thanks & best regards,
Upendra
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The WARP FPGA board probably has enough processing power to build either wireless scheme, though no one has tried it yet.
The WARP radio board uses an RF transceiver (MAX2829) designed for wideband schemes (like 802.11). I believe it could be used to realize a ZigBee design. I don't know much about the 802.15.4 PHY 2.4 GHz spec, but this overview makes me think it could work. Bluetooth, on the other hand, is harder. It requires fast frequency hopping across 79 MHz bandwidth at 2.4 GHz. The MAX2829 supports 40 MHz bandwidth maximum. It's possible two radios on adjacent channels could be used as a single logical Bluetooth RF front-end.
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