Sample Rate Conversion for Software

Software radio terminals must be able to process many various communications standards. These standards are generally based on different master clock rates and thus employ different bit/chip rates. The most obvious solution to cope with the diversity of master clock rates in one terminal is to provide a dedicated master clock for each standard of operation. Not only too costly, this kind of solution limits the applicability of a realized terminal. Hence, it is much more elegant to run the terminal on a fixed clock rate, and perform digital sample rate conversion controlled by software.