Posts Tagged ‘Signal Processing’

New Stock Market Index! Direct market value for some IP

Posted on July 11th, 2011 by admin

We have discovered an important measure of IP value hiding in plain sight. We identified some pure-play IP firms, such as ARM, MIPS and others, [...]

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WiFi Disruptive to Backhaul Systems

Posted on June 1st, 2011 by admin

Recently an IEEE discussion about a new business model for using WiFi to off-load cellular data traffic was posted. The idea that the cellular operators [...]

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PHY Layer Research: Unnecessary?

Posted on April 17th, 2011 by admin

Communication theory is one of the few in engineering that actually has a set of known, computable boundaries for optimum system performance, which boundaries serve [...]

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Gee, Maybe WiMax isn’t Dead Afterall

Posted on February 14th, 2011 by admin

After  Clearwire announced it was changing its 4G plans to replace WiMax with LTE, and Sprint was aligned in that decision, the pundits and wise [...]

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Has Cognitive Radio Disappeared Like AI?

Posted on November 19th, 2010 by admin

In some outposts of the wireless engineering community, “cognitive radio” (CR) and “software defined radio” (SDR) are sub-disciplines used in common practice, just like “artificial [...]

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Smart Phone Patent Lawsuits Focus on Android

Posted on October 25th, 2010 by admin

Recently there have been many articles about the outbreak of lawsuits over patents used in smart phone design. The most comprehensive article is probably in [...]

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Antennagate, Steve Jobs, Intel, Qualcomm and a Clash of Engineering Cultures

Posted on July 18th, 2010 by admin

Steve Jobs gave a press conference on 16 JULY 10 designed to respond to the growing uproar over Apple’s iPhone 4 antenna problems. His pitch [...]

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Cognitive Radio Presentation at Wireless Communications Alliance

Posted on February 27th, 2010 by admin

On 2-25-10 we moderated a panel session of the Cognitive Radio Special Interest Group within the Wireless Communications Alliance. WCA is a Silicon Valley based [...]

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Smart Phone Bill of Materials Good for CR?

Posted on January 25th, 2010 by admin

Cognitive Radio architectures and implementations require advanced signal processing. While the algorithms can be implemented in software, of course, the ability for RF systems to [...]

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Google Nexus One is a “Platform” for Social Networking and Augmented Reality

Posted on January 7th, 2010 by admin

Google’s 5 JAN 10 launch of the Nexus One smart phone has captured attention in two main areas: it’s capability as a smart phone, especially [...]

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