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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 [...]
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 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.
EDN has published its annual list of DSP providers.
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.
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.
Telecom Magazine reports Hong Kong’s largest mobile carrier, CSL New World Mobility (CSL) is to replace its existing 2G/3G network using ZTE-designed Software Defined Radio (SDR) base stations offering HSPA+ capability and a migration path to next generation Long Term Evolution (LTE).
At a joint conference in Barcelona, GSMA Mobile World Congress, last week, Tarek Robbiati, CEO [...]
Under the category of Most Innovative Mobile Processor, Sandbridge Technologies SB3500 was selected as one of the EE Times Insight Award 2008 finalists.
Here is the full list:
Sandbridge SB3500 Flexible Baseband Processor
Intel 45nm Atom Processor
Qualcomm QSD8650 Mobile Processor (Snapdragon Platform)
Samsung S5L8900B01 Applications Processor
Texas Instruments 65nm OMAP3530 Applications Processor
I wonder if a “productivity factor” can be used to determine the winner since my company [...]
ZTE announces another technological breakthrough by achieving the world’s first EV-DO Revision B (Rev.B) VoIP Call on its CDMA2000 system, marking the first time in the industry that a CDMA vendor achieves an impressive 9.3 Mbps download rate and 5.4 Mbps upload rate.
Compared with mature commercial EV-DO Rev.A, what ZTE’s EV-DO Rev.B does is to only [...]
