John Glossner
Sandbridge Technologies CTO & EVP. A fabless semiconductor company building SDR baseband processors.
February 2010
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Android Surges Among Handset Purchasers
February 10, 2010
Between September and December 2009, the proportion of future smartphone buyers who planned to purchase an Android-based phone jumped from 6% to 21%.
Alcatel-Lucent introduces new converged radio technology that lets mobile service providers smoothly support any mix of 2G, 3G and 4G/LTE on the same network
February 10, 2010
Multi-technology radio module can be introduced in more than 700,000 Alcatel-Lucent based stations already installed worldwide, enabling a gradual shift from GSM to W-CDMA and LTE
Paris, February 4, 2010 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced the introduction of a new radio module, based on software defined radio (SDR) technology, that gives mobile [...]
mimoOn and Tensilica to Provide Low Power, Small Footprint and Programmable IP Solutions for Mobile Wireless Radios
February 10, 2010
DUISBURG, GERMANY– February 10, 2010 -mimoOn, a pioneer in LTE software implementations for programmable radio platforms, and Tensilica® Inc., a leader in programmable and efficient IP cores for advanced mobile wireless SOCs (system-on-chips), today announced a partnership to offer best-in-class LTE solutions for mobile wireless radios based on mimoOn’s mi!MobilePHY™ software and Tensilica’s newly announced [...]
mimoOn demonstrates LTE for pico base stations based on Texas Instruments’ DSPs
February 10, 2010
Duisburg, Germany – 9 February, 2010 – mimoOn, a pioneer in LTE software implementation for programmable radio platforms, announced that it will be demonstrating LTE for pico base stations at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next week. mimoOn will showcase its advanced LTE PHY implementation running on TI’s DSPs, February 15-18, 2010, in the [...]
mimoOn & CEVA to demonstrate Single-Core, Real-time LTE UE Platform
February 10, 2010
mimoOn, a pioneer in LTE software implementation for programmable radio platforms, and CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA); (LSE: CVA), the leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, today announced a joint demonstration of a complete LTE UE PHY platform at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The demo will exhibit an end-to-end [...]
mimoOn to demonstrate its advanced low-cost LTE Test Mobile for Digital Dividend at Mobile World Congress 2010
February 10, 2010
Duisburg, Germany – 4 February, 2010: mimoOn, a pioneer in LTE software implementations for programmable radio platforms, announced it would demonstrate its LTE Test Mobile mi!TestMOBILE™ for the new European Digital Dividend (DD) frequencies at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. The demo can be seen on the mimoOn stand 2B17.
The DD spectrum at [...]
Multimode vector radio dismantles barriers to SDR software portability
February 10, 2010
My friends at Sigmatix and Octoscope have a nice follow-on EE Times article about Vector SDRs. The original article (mentioning Sandbridge) is here.
As an excerpt: To ensure the cost reduction of SDR platforms via economies of scale, software portability across processors must be achieved. The new generation of SDR, called multimode vector radio (MVR), offers that [...]
Army’s New “Smart Radio” May Revolutionize Communications
February 10, 2010
Armed with Science reports engineers with the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy are working to build a so-called “universal radio” test-bed this year in Fort Monmouth, N.J. They hope to open the gates of “cognitive radio” development to academia, private industry and other Defense Department organizations.
The Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) is creating [...]
Tensilica Introduces ConnX Atlas Reference Architecture for LTE
February 10, 2010
Multi-Standard Programmable Radio Platform Also Supports Other Standards Including HSPA+
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – February 8, 2010 -Tensilica, Inc. today introduced its ConnX Atlas LTE (Long-Term Evolution) reference platform, a heterogeneous seven-core reference architecture for a complete multi-standard programmable radio for advanced mobile devices. Atlas is designed to support the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) LTE [...]
Tensilica Introduces Second Generation ConnX BaseBand Engine DSP
February 10, 2010
Performance Improvements Up to 3x Over ConnX Baseband Engine Introduced in June 2009
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – February 8, 2010 – Tensilica, Inc. today introduced ConnX BBE16, its second generation baseband engine for LTE (long-term evolution) and 4G baseband SOC (system-on-chip) designs. ConnX BBE16’s 16-way MAC (multiply accumulator) architecture is optimized for the most demanding wireless [...]
Octasic Announces Second Generation DSP Core For Cutting-Edge Wireless and Media Gateway Applications
February 10, 2010
Octasic provides Opus2 DSP Core Development Environment for evaluation by 3G/4G wireless product designers…
MONTREAL, Canada – February 8, 2010 – Octasic Inc., a leading innovator of media processing and wireless solutions, today announced its second generation Opus2 DSP core, a high-performance, ultra-low power, asynchronous DSP architecture optimized for baseband processing and multimedia transcoding. To facilitate [...]
Octasic and Continuous Computing to Demonstrate UMTS Femtocell / Picocell Platform at Mobile World Congress 2010
February 10, 2010
Smooth Interworking of Trillium® Software with Vocallo BTS Baseband Processor Helps Accelerate Product Development by Small Cell Equipment Providers
MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada and SAN DIEGO – February 8, 2010 – Octasic Inc., a leading innovator of wireless and media processing solutions, and Continuous Computing®, the global provider of hardware and software solutions that address the mobile [...]
glossner: My daughter is first in line (literally first) to see Obama at Nashua High North. She won a ticket in the lottery. She’s sky high. #obamanh
February 2, 2010
glossner: My daughter is first in line (literally first) to see Obama at Nashua High North. She won a ticket in the lottery. She's sky high. #obamanh
