John Glossner
Targeting Trends In Military Electronics
Microwaves & RF reports Military applications often push technologies to their limits. Applications such as electronic warfare (EW), radar, communications, and surveillance have made demands on RF/microwave technologies over the years, causing oscillator manufacturers [...]
John Glossner announced as general chair of the SDR Forum’s SDR’09 Technical Conference
Shameless plug…
The SDR Forum announced that Dr. John Glossner of Sandbridge Technologies has accepted an appointment as General Chair of the SDR ‘09 technical Conference and Product Exposition.
Samsung Electronics joins IMEC research program on green radios
Leuven, Belgium – May 13, 2009 – Samsung Electronics today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with IMEC to lay down their intent to collaborate on technologies for green radios. The research collaboration topics will include cognitive reconfigurable radio baseband and millimeter-wave wireless communications technologies.
Building on its expertise in software-defined radios that support the major standards for wireless [...]
América Móvil Launches World’s First SDR-enabled GSM/UMTS Converged Network Using Huawei’s SingleRAN Solution
[Panama, 11 May, 2009] Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (”Huawei”), a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, and América Móvil (AMX), the leading provider of wireless services in Latin America, today announced that América Móvil has launched the world’s first SDR (Software Defined Radio)-based GSM/UMTS converged network in Panama. The [...]
mimoOn demonstrates real-time end-to-end LTE on industry leading embedded processors
Duisburg, 12 May 2009: mimoOn GmbH, a leader in software defined radio solutions (SDR) for advanced wireless standards, today announced a demonstration of end-to-end LTE on the industry leading platforms of Cavium Networks and ARM Ltd. at LTE World Summit, Berlin, May 18-20, 2009.
mimoOn’s advanced LTE software package mi!InfraSTACKTM runs on Cavium’s OCTEON MIPS64 multicore [...]
National Instruments Introduces PXI Express Reconfigurable IF Transceiver for Software-Defined RF Test and Prototyping
National Instruments announced the NI PXIe-5641R RIO IF transceiver, the company’s most recent device for RF test. The NI PXIe-5641R is a dual-input, dual-output module that combines an intermediate frequency (IF) transceiver with reconfigurable I/O (RIO) capability using a Xilinx Virtex-5 SX95T field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and PXI Express technology. With this new module, engineers [...]
ZTE Wins AVEA 3G Deal
SHENZHEN, China — ZTE Corporation (“ZTE”), clinches another major customer win in one of the fastest growing markets in Europe. The company today announced that AVEA, one of the Top 3 largest telecom operators in Turkey, has awarded ZTE a WCDMA commercial contract. In line with the company’s strategic plan to expand its WCDMA coverage, [...]
Texas Instruments unites speed and efficiency with industry’s fastest dual, 14-bit ADC
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) announced a dual, 14-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) at 250 MSPS (mega samples per second) to deliver a premier combination of wide signal bandwidth, high dynamic performance and low power consumption. The ADS62P49 achieves 73-dBFS signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and 85-dBc spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) at an input frequency of 60 [...]
ZTE Readies Fresh Assault on Europe, US
Light Reading Europe reports Just last month the company announced a $15 billion credit line that will be used to help fund further R&D and international expansion. The company also outlined its key areas of technology development, including: PON (Passive Optical Networks); IMS (IP Multimedia Susbystem); next-generation mobile technologies such as LTE-Advanced and SDR (software-defined [...]
Agilent’s compact receivers form RF sensor networks
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced an extremely cost-effective digital receiver for radio frequency (RF) signal monitoring. The Agilent N6841A RF Sensor is a software-defined, network-based receiver housed in a compact, weatherproof enclosure with a wide operating temperature range suitable for outdoor deployments. Multiple receivers may be combined to form RF sensor networks to [...]
Thales’ Liberty Liberates Comes Through Clearly for Certification
Thales Communications, Inc., develops, manufactures, and supports multiband, software-defined radio (SDR) equipment, announces that its LibertyTM multiband land mobile radio (LMR) has received U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) certification. Having successfully passed all required tests, the Liberty radio is the first FCC-approved multiband radio covering the entire public safety spectrum.
The Liberty radio, introduced in early [...]
Morpheus Reconfigurable Processor Announced
The European Commission Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) announced The EU-funded MORPHEUS project, which includes big manufacturers of embedded systems such as Thales, Thomson, Alcatel-Lucent, STMicroelectronics and Intracom, is exploring a new approach.
Pressure is coming mainly from high-performance applications that need to process huge amounts of data in a short time. Examples include digital video [...]
Harris Corporation to Acquire Tyco Electronics Wireless Systems
Harris announced the acquisition of Tyco Electronic Wireless Systems.
“The combination of RF Communications and Wireless Systems creates a powerful supplier in the global land mobile radio systems market,” said Howard L. Lance, chairman, president and CEO of Harris. “With an 80-year heritage in providing communications for the public safety market, Wireless Systems has established a [...]
IMEC unveils tools to speed up design of energy-efficient multi-processor SoC platforms
IMEC announced The IMEC MPSoC technology provides solutions by focusing on design-time application mapping. The technology’s two main threads offer support for fast parallelization (with the Multi-processor Parallelization Assistant tool) and support for memory hierarchy optimizations (with the Memory Hierarchy tool).
IMEC’s tools, methods, and associated services have a proven industrial strength. They have been used [...]
PA Consulting examines whether the time is right for SDR in terminals
The talk is being held at the SDR Forum’s European Reconfigurable Radio Technologies Workshop and Product Exposition on Thursday, 23 April (09.30 hours) in Madrid.
Ascom Introduces High Performance LTE Scanner
Ascom Inc. announced The new scanner design supports LTE baseband scanning in the 700 MHz bands while simultaneously supporting EvDO scanning of the 850/1900 MHz bands, simplifying deployment of multi-mode LTE/EvDO systems and offering advanced baseband decoding analysis for LTE deployment. An enhancement of Ascom’s existing leading RF scanner design, this third generation Software-Defined Radio [...]
Software defined radios help agencies communicate
PoliceOne.com has an article on the benefits of SDR designs in public safety applications.
During emergency situations — whether a natural disaster like Katrina, large transportation accident, or terrorist attack—public safety officials from different agencies (in some cases, different counties and States) must be able to effectively communicate with each other. If they cannot share information [...]
Portable and Rugged RFID Reader/Mobile Computer
GAO announced The Jett RFID reader/mobile computer boasts two unique and innovative features which offer great benefits to users: its exceptional antenna and a brilliant “Software Defined Radio” (SDR) architecture. Its exceptional antenna allows for the reading of tags in any orientation overcoming problem associated with tag orientation. As well, the brilliant hardware/software scheme future-proofs [...]
Making cost-effective telecom base stations
The Hindu reports Sloka Telecom’s 5.8GHz suite of WiMAX (Worldwide Inter-operability for Microwave Access) products caters for the unlicensed frequency spectrum allowing wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) to deploy wireless broadband access networks without having to obtain frequency licences. Sloka’s 5.8GHz suite of WiMAX products includes base stations, subscriber stations, the authentication, authorisation and accounting [...]
QNX Ships First Multi-Core RTOS to Achieve Common Criteria Security Certification
QNX Software Systems announced that the QNX® Neutrino® RTOS Secure Kernel v6.4.0 has been certified to the stringent security requirements of the Common Criteria ISO/IEC 15408 Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL 4+).
The QNX Neutrino RTOS Secure Kernel marks two industry firsts: it is the only full-featured RTOS to achieve Common Criteria certification, and it [...]