  The pseudo-analog wireless video transmission technology can improve the
effectiveness, reliability, and robustness of the conventional digital system
in video broadcast scenarios. Although some prototypes of IEEE 802.11 series
have been developed for researchers to do simulations and experiments, they are
usually expensive and provide very limited access to the physical layer. More
importantly, these prototypes cannot be used to verify the correctness of the
new proposed pseudo-analog wireless video transmission algorithms directly due
to limited modulation modes they can support. In this paper, we present a novel
design of software radio platform (SDR)-based pseudo-analog wireless video
transceiver which is completely transparent and allows users to learn all the
implementation details. Firstly, we prove that the analog method can also
achieve the optimal performance as the digital method from the perspective of
the rate-distortion theory. Then, we describe the two hardware implementation
difficulties existed in the designing process including the data format
modification and the non-linear distortion. Next, we introduce the
implementation details of the designed transceiver. Finally, we analyze the
performance of the designed transceiver. Specifically, the results show that
the designed system can work effectively in both simulations and experiments.
