John Glossner
Sandbridge Technologies CTO & EVP. A fabless semiconductor company building SDR baseband processors.
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SDR Insider
January 4, 2009
John Glossner’s musings on Software Defined Radio (SDR), Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Wireless Communications, Computer Architecture, Programming, Technology, and Entrepreneurship
Smartphones Set for Growth in 2009
February 8, 2009
Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Modoff on Jan. 12 was among the latest to lower his estimate for 2009 handset volumes to negative 10%, down from negative 6.4%, based on low demand in Europe and the Americas. Modoff projected slowing growth in emerging markets. Asia and Africa are projected to be down in the low single [...]
The 2008 VC Liquidity Drought In Charts
February 8, 2009
Techcrunch reports The financial meltdown of 2008 all but shut down venture-backed exits, as we all know. The National Venture Capital Association declared a crisis back in the second quarter, which got worse in the third quarter. This week, the NCVA released its numbers for the fourth quarter and, as expected, they are pretty [...]
Analysis: SDR chip proves itself on BDTI benchmark
February 8, 2009
DSP Design Line reports The SB3500 is the first handset-oriented chip for which BDTI has published certified results on this benchmark, and its results are quite strong. The 500 MHz SB3500 can handle a total of six OFDM channels using its three DSP cores. Each of the cores runs four threads, with each thread running [...]
SDR software mounts TI’s LTE-ready chip
February 11, 2009
EE Times reports that mimOn has ported its LTE software to a TI TMS320TCI648x targeting femtocell and macro basestations.
Software-defined test platform targets LTE
February 11, 2009
EE Times reports mimoOn and Cetecom have partnered using Sandbridge Technologies SB3500 SDR baseband for “world’s smallest mobile test implementation for 3GPP LTE.”
The platform is 13cm x 16cm x 2cm and support 20MHz MIMO with 100Mbps downlink and 50Mbps uplink.
[Full Disclosure: I work for Sandbridge]
ZTE SDR Solution Nominated for GSMA’s 14th Global Mobile Awards
February 11, 2009
PR Newswire reports ZTE Corporation ("ZTE"), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions has been shortlisted for the Best Network Technology Advance Award at the 2009 Global Mobile Awards, the most prestigious mobile honours in the mobile communications field, for its cutting-edge SDR (Software Defined Radio) solution. ZTE is the only Chinese company nominated for this global award. ZTE's ZXSDR B8200 and ZXSDR R8860 are the company's two major SDR products. They are deployed by China Unicom in all of China's 18 provinces for its WCDMA networks. ZTE launched the world's first commercial SDR base station at the 2008 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
CEVA Unveils Industry’s Highest Performance DSP Architecture for 3.5G/4G Terminals and Infrastructure SoCs
February 13, 2009
Ceva has announced an SDR vector DSP processor (Ceva-XC) supporting LTE class 5 and WiMax 16m (and of course all the legacy systems).
AND it’s for terminals.
It includes optimizing compiler and up to 4 vector units with a claimed 200 GOPS on the 3-way VLIW 256-bit vector unit (which sounds similiar to Sandbridge’s November 2008 announcement).
Renesas : Development systems allows re-configurable communication
February 13, 2009
ASOCS and Renesas Technology Europe today announced availability of a GSM/GPRS/EDGE communication development system (CDS). Comprising of an ASOCS MP100 MultiComms processor and a Renesas Technology DRACO3 RF subsystem, the development system allows handset designers to rapidly prototype combined cellular and Internet products.
NXP name dropped as ST-Ericsson powers ahead
February 13, 2009
EE Times reports STMicroelectronics NV and Ericsson have named their 50:50 joint venture that combines the efforts of Ericsson Mobile Platforms with ST-NXP Wireless — ST-Ericsson.
They took our tongue-in cheek advice not to call the new group Saint Eric, but, as expected, the NXP name is to be phased out.
Let’s hope the same doesn’t happen to NXP’s EVP!
