The main objective of this study is to elaborate the differences between Hardware radio communication systems and Software Defined Radios.

The report gives a broad coverage for the hardware communication systems namely, Cellular connectivity, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. It also covers architectures of Software Defined Radios. Following that approach it further touches the advantages and there is a list of popular SDRs in the present day.

A device called NI USRP connected to a computer running LabVIEW NXG was used at the electronics laboratory to perform experiments. In this report, only a portion of it was achieved.

After the study was completed, It was understood that Software Defined Radios have huge potential applications in the present day and in the future.