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News Release from: RF Engines
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 March 2002
Alliance to target low-power filters
RF Engines (RFEL) has granted a development licence for its pipelined frequency transform (PFT) architecture to Advanced Architectures (A2) of Irvine, California.
RF Engines (RFEL) has granted a development licence for its pipelined frequency transform (PFT) architecture to Advanced Architectures (A2) of Irvine, California The joint development will use A2's experience in low power ASIC design to produce an extremely low power (tens of milliwatts) versions of the PFT technology for use in various applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Sep 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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One of the first projects will be an interference rejection chip for communication and GPS systems.
The combination of the PFT's unique filter characteristics and architectural efficiency will allow multiple narrowband interferers to be removed from the spectrum by use of an adaptive filtering technique running on A2's customisable A2MP parallel DSP core.
The low power design will significantly increase the reliability and effectiveness of mobile GPS applications needed for the future, location-based services market.
This development is just one of the many application areas opening up for RFEL's newly released PFT technology that provides the ability to process a wide slice of the spectrum (up to 100MHz) in real time.
John Summers of RFEL commented: "We are extremely pleased to be working with A2 on low power versions of the PFT as it will open up an even wider market for the architecture.
Following on from the GPS application, we expect to generate general purpose, low power designs for OFDM and mobile wireless application".
Roger Thorpe of A2 commented: "The combination of A2's parallel A2MP DSP and RFEL's innovative PFT architecture is an excellent match for developing signal processing solutions within the frequency domain.
Our experience with low power ASIC design further enhances this capability by generating designs deployable in portable systems".
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