Improvements in electronic have allowed front-end part in communication systems to be faster and more precise: the focus on this part of a device is justified as the communication with the external world has to keep the rhythm with the high speed calculations of every CPU. Every application requires then a reliable and low noise-conditioned devices able to reach performances we use every day. New techniques are developing also in time - frequency metrology field, where the low noise rate is required to achieve high measurement accuracy. The use of new SoC commercial boards, composed by a programmable logic and processing system, is a matter of interest in this field in order to develop new measurement flows: this kind of applications are reliable in terms of flexibility, where on-the-fly test and re-programming hardware are required, and quite fast in processing data thanks to last years' CPU presence.