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2/21/2002 1:02 PM EST
The following sites provide more information on the processing demands of fourth-generation wireless designs and describe how researchers are boosting the performance of DSPs.
Lenslet Labs' site provides information on the Optical Digital Signal Processing Engine, a component that takes multiple electronic digital inputs, converts them into optical signals, performs the desired computation at light speed in the optical core and then converts the optical output signals back into digital electronic form. Site provides white papers.
www.wireless-world-research.org
The Wireless World Research Forum site offers a peek at future research directions in wireless and and at technical trends for mobile and wireless system technologies.
The OFDM Forum provides details on orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing as a cornerstone technology for the next generation of high-speed wireless data products and services for both corporate and consumer use.
http://research.sun.com/features/4g_wireless/ This Sun Microsystems site opens a window on the ongoing research in Internet Protocol-based 4G wireless and looks at the research goals of a team of engineers, headed by Jackson Wong, designing and implementing the needed tools and protocols.
www.mitforum.com/wireless-forum.htm
The MIT Enterprise Forum of Dallas-Fort Worth Inc. presented "Wireless Platforms for the Future: Integrating B-to-C Data Transmission and 4G — Where will it take us?" as part of its ongoing Future Technology Series program. Presentations are available here.
(www.commsdesign.com/story/OEG20010521S0118)
This excellent article by Lee Pucker, a systems architect in the wireless-systems business unit at Spectrum Signal Processing, describes the trade-offs involved in using DSPs, FPGAs and other components in software-defined radios.
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