1. Multirate Signal Processing
Multirate Signal Processing : The implementation of a digital signal processing application using variable sampling rates
Can Improve the flexibility of a software radio
Reduces the need for expensive anti-aliasing analog filters
Enables processing of different types of signals with different sampling rates
Allows partitioning of the high-speed processing into parallel multiple lower speed processing tasks  reduced costs
Can lead to a significant saving in computational power
Wideband receivers take advantage of multirate signal processing for efficient channelization
Offers flexibility for symbol synchronization and downconversion of software radios

2. Multirate Signal Processing
Sample Rate Conversion Principles
(Integer Rate Conversion)
- Decimation
- Interpolation: zero-insertion, zero-order-hold (ZOH), zero-insertion, raised-cosine filtering, fast Fourier transform (FFT) expansion
Multi-Stage Sampling rate conversion
- offer less computation and more flexibility in filter design

3. Cascaded Integrator Comb Filter (CIC)
Implement an interpolation or decimation filter
CIC Decimation Filter
CIC Interpolation Filter

4. Polyphase Filter
A way to reduce computational cost for a multirate system, by replacing high-speed elements with low-speed processing elements
Polyphase Decimation
Polyphase Interpolation

5. Digital Filter Banks
Applications: -To break a wideband signal into multiple bands
-Allowing lower-speed computational techniques
-Converting a signal from frequency division multiplexing (FDM) to time division multiplexing (TDM) or vice versa.
Implementation
Two Basic Architectures:
1. Filter Bank Analyzer: decomposes the input signal into several channels
2. Filter Bank Synthesizer: reconstructs the input by combining the channel signals

6. Time Recovery in Digital Receivers Using Multirate Digital Filters
Reduces complexity compared to conventional timing recovery techniques
Timing recovery in an Analog Receiver
Timing recovery in a First Generation Digital Receiver
A Multirate Filtering Approach to Synchronization

7. Direct Digital Synthesis
Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS) offers a number of advantages to signal generation in software Radio. Its digital nature in particular makes it very attractive.
Precision - Possible to set frequency accurately, with high resolution.
Flexibility - Easy to change output parameters.
Switching Frequency - High switching speeds possible, Output is smooth and transient free during frequency change. Possible to have continuous phase during frequency switching.
Equipment size - DDS can be implemented at a fraction of the size of analogue synthesizers.
Spectral purity – If accumulator size is an integral multiple of the step size, the will be no phase truncation, and signal quality will be very high.

8. Approaches to DDS Pulse Output DDS ROM Look Up Table
Simplest of all DDS models
Consists of N-Bit Adder and register to produce saw tooth waveform.
Fout = Δr*Fclk/2N
Limited use due to high spur and jitter levels.
ROM Look Up Table
Sampled Values of periodic wave stored in ROM
Wave period defined by Δr.
Subject to phase truncation

9. Performance Of DDS
Spectral Purity and Sideband noise are major drawbacks of DDS.
DDS performance closely related to DAC performance
In practice, Clock frequency impacts performance of DDS.
If output frequency is chosen to be an exact fraction of clock frequency, spurious outputs are reduced.