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SDR Implementation of Analog FM Broadcast Multipath Filter

A presentation at IEICE Smart Radio (SR) SIG 4-NOV-2021, for the following technical report: Kenji Rikitake, "SDR Implementation of Analog FM Broadcast Multipath Filter", IEICE Technical Report, vol. 121, no. 227, SR2021-43, pp. 17-24, November 2021.
This presentation describes the FM multipath filter section of an SDR receiver software airspy-fmradion, and the evaluation with actual FM broadcast stations in Tokyo, Japan.

Kenji Rikitake

November 04, 2021
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  1. SDR Implementation of Analog FM Broadcast Multipath Filter Kenji Rikitake

    Kenji Rikitake Professional Engineer's Office / Pepabo R&D Institute 4-NOV-2021 IEICE SR SIG Kenji Rikitake / IEICE SR 4-NOV-2021 1
  2. Summary • FM broadcast and multipath interference • Overview of

    our SDR receiver airspy-fmradion • FM multipath filter in detail • Evaluation and results • Conclusion and future works Kenji Rikitake / IEICE SR 4-NOV-2021 2
  3. Errata on the report • Page 21, Table 4: NLMS

    coefficient update rate • 48kHz (once in 8 samples) -> 96kHz (once in 4 samples) • Corresponding report text in Page 21: • [...] empirically set to 48kHz 96kHz to [...] Kenji Rikitake / IEICE SR 4-NOV-2021 3
  4. FM broadcast and multipath interference The amplitude level of FM

    signals is theoretically fixed Multipath interference causes change of amplitude level and phase Amplitude level change may cause destructive results on demodulation, e.g., large-level spikes Question: how can this amplitude and phase distortion be removed? Kenji Rikitake / IEICE SR 4-NOV-2021 4
  5. Removing FM multipath distortion Directional beam antenna: antenna might be

    too large, inapplicable for mobile or portable receiver installations Diversity reception: system might become too complex Audio noise reduction: not directly addressing the root cause A possible solution: making a model compensating the amplitude and phase changes in the propagation path -> adaptive FIR filter Kenji Rikitake / IEICE SR 4-NOV-2021 5
  6. airspy-fmradion functions Supported SDR frontends: Airspy HF+, Airspy R2/mini, RTL-SDR,

    and pre- recorded IQ signal files For macOS, Ubuntu, and Raspberry Pi OS Output: 48kHz 16-bit integer / 32-bit float PCM output (WAV/RF64, raw PCM) Open-sourced: source code available at https://github.com/jj1bdx/airspy-fmradion Kenji Rikitake / IEICE SR 4-NOV-2021 7
  7. Advantage of our filter design Allocating IF AGC before the

    FIR filter for more stability Full 32-bit float computation for mathematical stability Using VOLK to fully utilize SIMD instructions Weighted FIR filter stage allocation for optimizing computational resource usage Kenji Rikitake / IEICE SR 4-NOV-2021 10
  8. Adaptive filter design by Constant Modulus Algorithm (CMA) Objective: recover

    the original fixed amplitude (not like the traditional hard- limiting) Adaptive filter coefficient algorithm (LMS/ NLMS) target: keep the complex amplitude to the reference value (unity) Allocates more FIR filter stages for reflecting past data than future data from the reference point Kenji Rikitake / IEICE SR 4-NOV-2021 12
  9. Evaluation: filter configuration • Filter sampling rate: 384kHz (2.6µs/sample) •

    IF AGC: step size K = 0.001, reference level A = 1 • NLMS: adaptation gain = 0.1, update rate = 96kHz • Changing filter stage S from 0 ... 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50 • FIR filter stages for S = 15: 61 samples total, past samples: 46, future samples: 14 Kenji Rikitake / IEICE SR 4-NOV-2021 14
  10. Evaluation: FM stations received • Received in Setagaya City, Tokyo,

    Japan • Simple whip antenna at the balcony • NHK-FM Tokyo (JOAK-FM, 82.5MHz) • Tokyo Skytree, 17km east, ERP: 57kW • InterFM Tokyo (JODW-FM, 89.7MHz) • Tokyo Tower, 11km east, ERP: 13kW Kenji Rikitake / IEICE SR 4-NOV-2021 15
  11. Evaluation indices • THD+N for 880Hz time tone of NHK-FM

    • Quadratic Multipath Monitor (QMM) • π/2-shifted DSB demodulation of L-R signal with 38kHz • Ideally: no output → reality: distortion output • Suitable for high-modulation music contents Kenji Rikitake / IEICE SR 4-NOV-2021 16
  12. Other observations • For S=100, CPU usage: with VOLK, 19%;

    without VOLK, 43% • IF AGC worked well on long-distance stations in Yokohama • CMA does not work well with hard-limited Cable TV signal • Alternative measurement index is required for non-music contents, such as 19kHz pilot tone distortion Kenji Rikitake / IEICE SR 4-NOV-2021 24
  13. Conclusion and future works Our filter design effectively reduced NHK-FM

    time tone THD+N from 1.22% to 0.33%, with audibly noticeable improvement Our filter design can be practically implemented on modern computers including Raspberry Pi 4B and Intel NUC CMA is not effective on hard-limited signal environment such as Cable TV; alternative algorithm required Kenji Rikitake / IEICE SR 4-NOV-2021 26