Over the past few years, the realm of embedded systems has expanded to include a wide
variety of products, ranging from digital cameras, to sensor networks, to medical imaging …

This paper describes the Sandbridge Sandblaster real-time software-defined radio platform.
Specifically, we describe the SB3011 system-on-a-chip multiprocessor. We describe the …

The Sandblaster architecture is a high-performance vector architecture targeted at digital
signal processing applications. The Sandblaster 1.0 architecture was targeted at …

Our research aims at contributing to the evolution of modern wireless communications and
to the development of software-defined radio (SDR) and cognitive radio, in particular. It …

The aim of this thesis is to design and implement a software defined radio based wireless
communication system. Software defined radio is a feasible solution for reconfigurable …

The paper explores the system and architecture requirements for cognitive driven
reconfigurable hardware for an aeronautical platform, such as commercial aircraft or high …

Modern society is increasingly becoming dependent on digital communication systems in
order to function properly, with a growing number of applications relying on these devices …

This paper presents an overview of trends in low power handset SDR implementations. With
the market for SDR-enabled handsets expected to grow to 200M units by 2014, the barriers …

In this paper, we propose a novel RFID reader/writer architecture that dynamically retargets
various protocols of RFID by changing configuration software. The proposed architecture is …

A very long instruction word (VLIW) digital signal processor (DSP), called ODiN, which could
execute six instructions in a single cycle simultaneously, is designed and fabricated using …