3. ROOT PROCESSOR DESIGN
As described in Section 2, our design utilizes a root processor,
shown in figure 5 that is based solely on an FPGA. The FPGA
contains all components necessary to our processing. Here,
we present the design details of the root processor capabilities
including a soft processor core, comport communication, and
host communication. We also present our data acquisition
system implemented to help debug hardware designs as well
as take radio measurements.