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News Release from: The MathWorks
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Students get help with smart radio
challenge
The MathWorks is to provide extensive support to students in a worldwide competition that challenges future engineers to develop next-generation wireless technology.
The MathWorks will provide extensive support to students participating in the SDR Forum Smart Radio Challenge, a worldwide student competition that challenges future engineers to develop next-generation wireless technology As a headline sponsor, The MathWorks will donate funds to the SDR Forum, provide Matlab and Simulink software, and train and mentor students throughout the competition
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Feb 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The SDR Forum Smart Radio Challenge is an ongoing worldwide competition that will provide student engineering teams an opportunity to design, develop, and test a software defined radio.
Each team will have two years to submit their radios to the competition.
Registration for the SDR Forum Smart Radio Challenge opens on 30th May 2006.
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On 1st December 2006, qualified teams start on the development problem, documentation for which is due on 30th September 2007.
The MathWorks will mentor student teams through the first year of the Smart Radio Challenge and offer product training classes at the SDR Forum conference in November 2006.
In addition, the company will provide students with access to the Matlab and Simulink product families to execute the modelling and design aspects of the challenge.
Part of the assessment criteria at the end of the development phase is the maturity of design process.
At this phase, The MathWorks will help students streamline development to create significantly simpler and more robust designs by introducing the concept of model-based design, and helping students apply it with Matlab and Simulink.
Model-based design allows engineers to use mathematical models to specify and simulate system behaviour, design hardware and software components, generate code for prototyping and implementation, and verify the implementation against a validated system model.
Through the use of model-based design, wireless communications engineers can use higher levels of abstraction to achieve the software portability and development efficiency required for software defined radio applications.
The SDR Forum supports the development and deployment of software defined radio systems that enable flexible and adaptable architectures in advanced wireless systems.
Software defined radios can be dynamically programmed to support different waveforms, provide new features, improve performance, and deliver new services.
With the ability to track and link into locally available unused radio spectrums, SDR allows enhanced communication and co-ordination across critical response functions such as emergency disaster response, rescue operations, and military missions spread across wide communications ranges.
Academic members of the SDR Forum include universities from Finland, Germany, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Spain and the USA.
The competition is open to student teams from all academic institutions interested in SDR and cognitive radio technologies, including forum nonmembers.
With new teams joining each year, student team submissions will reflect the evolving sophistication of radio technology.
"Software defined radio is the future of public safety and defence communications", said Kenneth Karnofsky, Marketing Director, Signal Processing and Communications, The MathWorks.
"We are proud to support the SDR Forum Smart Radio Challenge".
"We expect that the competition will lead to new innovations in smart radio technology that can serve to avert communications disasters in the face of hurricanes, co-ordinate security forces globally, and permit effective emergency response anytime and anywhere".
"In the process, a new generation of engineers will become proficient in applying model-based design to solving the most demanding problems in communications engineering".
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