John Glossner
Sandbridge Technologies CTO & EVP. A fabless semiconductor company building SDR baseband processors.
March 2009
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Using software modems to enable low-cost, converged wireless
March 31, 2009
Chet Babla of Mirics Semiconductor has published a technical paper on multistandard Broadcast receivers implemented with a Mirics FlexiTV RF front end plus x86 processing for the baseband.
They implemented this on a 2.6GHz dual core x86 processor. Benchmarking standard definition (SD) DVB-T required 25% of the CPU load. The media player decoding of the SD stream [...]
Imagination Technologies DVB-H White Paper
March 21, 2009
Imagination Technologies has published a white paper on TechOnline discussing the implementation of DVB-H on its Ensigma Universal Communications Coprocessor (UCC) mobile IP SDR platform.
Embedded Systems in SDR and Cognitive Radio
March 12, 2009
DebasisDas has a nice post at EMCelettronica on SDR and Cognitive radio.
SDR Forum Announces 3rd Annual Smart Radio Challenge
March 12, 2009
The Software Defined Radio (SDR) Forum (www.sdrforum.org) is now accepting entries for its third annual Smart Radio Challenge, a worldwide competition in which student engineering teams design, develop and test a software defined radio. Smart Radio Challenge ’09 is open to student teams from all academic institutions interested in SDR and cognitive radio technologies.
Teams will submit [...]
Elektrobit chosen for European SDR Program
March 12, 2009
Elektrobit announced it is part of the ESSOR (European Secure Software Defined Radio) Program, a European Defence Agency (EDA) project, consisting of industrial companies from six participating member states, including EB, Finland; Indra, Spain; Radmor, Poland; Saab, Sweden; Selex, Italy and Thales, France.
ESSOR’s aim is to study and develop the Software Defined Radio (SDR) space, an [...]
NASA plans improved ‘Internet in space’
March 10, 2009
Government Computer News reports NASA’s Deep Space Network is on the way toward becoming a true Internet in space, thanks to the agency’s research and investment in software-defined radios (SDRs). Also, the agency is preparing an SDR test module for the International Space Station that will be capable of connecting the station with an uplink [...]
Can SDRs Save Power?
March 7, 2009
Kenton Williston at DSP DesignLine has an article that SDR is not only becoming mainstream but at 32nm process nodes and below may actually be lower power than traditional RTL designs.
Agilent EDA software targets SDR PHY development
March 6, 2009
Agilent announced software specifically targeted at speeding up SDR PHY development - particularly LTE and WiMAX.
The new platform delivers modeling, design-flow improvements and baseband IP libraries that can cut months from physical layer (PHY) design time for high-performance communications algorithms and system architectures in both wireless and aerospace/defense applications.
Pricing for typical configurations starts at approximately $15,000.
An SDR revolution?
March 4, 2009
Kenton Williston at DSP DesignLine published an article on whether SDR is now mainstream or not. He consulted with Jeff Bier and Will Strauss. He mentions Octasic, Imagination, and Ceva.
Huawei Technologies announced its SDR-based SingleRAN/LTE truck
March 3, 2009
3g.co.uk reports Recently, Huawei has been chosen by TeliaSonera, the largest telecoms operator in Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, to supply the world’s first commercial LTE network, in Oslo, Norway. In 2008, Huawei launched the industry’s first 3G / 2G SDR based Software Defined Radio (SDR) SingleRAN product together with Vodafone Group.
