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SDR: Does it makes sense? Part 1/2

Praveen RaghavanPraveen Raghavan January 7, 20081 comment

Howdie all, 

One of the things I personaly have been debating is SDR ready for deployment? Plenty of companies have come around with commericial solutions like Silicon Hive, NXP (former Philips), Infineon, Sandbridge, and others. For the un-initiated, SDR is the basic idea of if many wireless standards on a single chip.

One of the reasons I strongly believe it may just work is the following: 45nm node is most probably going to be still bulk-CMOS based. 32nm or 22nm technology is...


TI goes the Open Source way!

Praveen RaghavanPraveen Raghavan November 19, 20077 comments

TI has started opening parts of its toolchain by releasing a free standalone compiler for its C54x line, announced through Googles Summer of Code. Praveen Raghavan points out the bundle includes a compiler, optimizer, assembler, and linker but no debugger, and shows why this can enable open-source codec work on DM320-based OSD projects. The post calls for industry and academia to collaborate on improving compilers.


ES Week Emphasis on Component Based Design

Praveen RaghavanPraveen Raghavan October 7, 2007

Howdy everyone from beautiful Salzburg/Austria,

A week full of presentations on embedded systems at ESWeek was quite a mindful. Similar to most academic conferences, there was only a few papers worth taking back home to think about. Amongst these were:

1. Keynote talk by Hermann Eul from Infineon: He presented Infineon's view on SDR and its evolution. This talk was quite inspirational. However the most interesting slide on complexity of SDR evolution was removed. I wish I could give this...


Software Defined Radio at SAMOS

Praveen RaghavanPraveen Raghavan September 22, 20073 comments

Lets start off with so 'hot' SDR track held at SAMOS conference this year. The academic community relatively active in the SDR architecture domain including UMich, WisMad, Linkoping, IMEC and others all presented their views on Software Defined Radio and unveiled a part of their work. We from IMEC 'finally' made our SyncPro architecture public. You can find more about our vector synchronization processor architecture from our


TI goes the Open Source way!

Praveen RaghavanPraveen Raghavan November 19, 20077 comments

TI has started opening parts of its toolchain by releasing a free standalone compiler for its C54x line, announced through Googles Summer of Code. Praveen Raghavan points out the bundle includes a compiler, optimizer, assembler, and linker but no debugger, and shows why this can enable open-source codec work on DM320-based OSD projects. The post calls for industry and academia to collaborate on improving compilers.


SDR: Does it makes sense? Part 1/2

Praveen RaghavanPraveen Raghavan January 7, 20081 comment

Howdie all, 

One of the things I personaly have been debating is SDR ready for deployment? Plenty of companies have come around with commericial solutions like Silicon Hive, NXP (former Philips), Infineon, Sandbridge, and others. For the un-initiated, SDR is the basic idea of if many wireless standards on a single chip.

One of the reasons I strongly believe it may just work is the following: 45nm node is most probably going to be still bulk-CMOS based. 32nm or 22nm technology is...


Software Defined Radio at SAMOS

Praveen RaghavanPraveen Raghavan September 22, 20073 comments

Lets start off with so 'hot' SDR track held at SAMOS conference this year. The academic community relatively active in the SDR architecture domain including UMich, WisMad, Linkoping, IMEC and others all presented their views on Software Defined Radio and unveiled a part of their work. We from IMEC 'finally' made our SyncPro architecture public. You can find more about our vector synchronization processor architecture from our


ES Week Emphasis on Component Based Design

Praveen RaghavanPraveen Raghavan October 7, 2007

Howdy everyone from beautiful Salzburg/Austria,

A week full of presentations on embedded systems at ESWeek was quite a mindful. Similar to most academic conferences, there was only a few papers worth taking back home to think about. Amongst these were:

1. Keynote talk by Hermann Eul from Infineon: He presented Infineon's view on SDR and its evolution. This talk was quite inspirational. However the most interesting slide on complexity of SDR evolution was removed. I wish I could give this...