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Sandbridge Technologies CTO & EVP. A fabless semiconductor company building SDR baseband processors.

September 2009

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Crazy Entreprenuers?

September 30, 2009

The Kaufman Foundation published a 24 page report on the characteristics of entrepreneurs titles The Anatomy of an Entrepreneur: Family Background and Motivation. In it they profile the backgrounds, histories and beliefs of entrepreneurs. After a survey of 549 entrepreneurs from diverse industries including: aerospace and defense, computer and electronics, health care, and services, they found: Average [...]

CrestaTech’s New “HDTV Anywhere” Chip Now Ready For Sampling to PC OEMs

September 30, 2009

Innovative architecture turns laptop PCs into globetrotting TVs SAN FRANCISCO and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 22, 2009 – Get ready to get global with HDTV on a PC. Reference designs and samples for CrestaTech’s new programmable broadband technology are now available, enabling PC manufacturers to pop in one universal chip and support all analog TV and digital [...]

Mirics and NVIDIA bring software-based TV to more PC platforms

September 30, 2009

Innovative use of GPUs for signal processing enables broader range of PC platforms to receive global over-the-air digital TV Sunnyvale, CA. - September 29th, 2009: Mirics today announces it has developed a global broadcast TV solution for NVIDIA® GPUs (graphics processing units). By leveraging the massively parallel NVIDIA CUDA™ architecture for the Mirics FlexiTV™ [...]

Broadband Mobile Attach Rates

September 28, 2009

US Operator Market Share

September 28, 2009

LTE Rollout by Operator

September 28, 2009

Air Force plan to cut its JTRS military radio

September 28, 2009

Military & Aerospace Electronics’ reports the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) plan to upgrade military radio communications by injecting software defined radio (SDR) technology into land, sea, and airborne RF transceivers is taking a hit with news that the U.S. Navy and Air Force are seeking to cancel their JTRS [...]

Tata Elxsi, Full Spectrum to Customize FullMAX Broadband Wireless System for Smart Grid Communications

September 28, 2009

Tata Elxsi Ltd, part of India’s Tata Group, and Full Spectrum Inc, headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, have team up to expand the market for Full Spectrum’s FullMAX broadband wireless system for smart grid communications. The FullMAX system is an enhanced and extended version of worldwide Mobile WiMAX (802.16e-2005) standard designed for mission critical communications. The FullMAX [...]

New vendor enters increasingly less crowded WiMax market

September 28, 2009

Telephony online reports that while the big vendors are looking to get out of the WiMax business, one vendor start-up is looking for a way in. Mountain View, Calif.,-based PureWave Networks next week plans to make its public debut in the WiMax scene, releasing a line of low-power compact mobile WiMax base stations. … PureWave’s Quantum base stations [...]

Nottingham company set to be a world leader in satellite navigation

September 28, 2009

Nottingham Scientific Ltd (NSL) teamed up with De Montfort University (DMU) in a joint project to research and develop innovative receivers, which will be able to pick up signals from all Global Navigation Satellites at all frequencies. Another unique feature of the receiver is that it uses the software defined radio technology which can track satellite signals [...]

Harris Corporation Delivers 100,000th JTRS AN/PRC-152(C) Handheld Radio

September 28, 2009

ROCHESTER, NY, September 14, 2009 — Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, today is delivering its 100,000th Falcon III® AN/PRC-152(C), a multiband handheld radio that is providing improved secure real-time communication between deployed forces at all levels during combat and crisis. The software-defined AN/PRC-152(C) is the most widely deployed JTRS-approved radio. Currently in [...]

GateHouse Initiates Software Defined Radio Program with Inmarsat BGAN

September 28, 2009

GateHouse initiates a program to prototype a Software Defined Radio implementation of a BGAN waveform. The program is supported by Inmarsat. The aim of the program is to further SDR research and development in the context of supporting multiple communication standards on the same user terminal, and reducing the complexity of the required hardware. In addition, [...]

Mobile Data Growth

September 28, 2009

Here is a prediction of mobile data growth by Cisco. An article in Fortune suggest this will be driven by Smartphone growth including iPhones.