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Woodchester, England, United Kingdom

Bristol, United Kingdom

System architectures, digital design and FPGA

Bristol, United Kingdom

Design and development of the digital interface and wideband radio equipment, test equipment and operational support equipment for LTE/UMTS/GSM/WiMAX radio-head systems

System architectures, digital design and FPGA

Design, schematic capture, layout and testing of the digital section of the transmitter-receiver (TRx) board. Various signal integrity techniques.VHDL including converting MATLAB models of DSP elements into fixed-point VHDL architectures, DDR memory interfaces, bidirectional Data Capture buffers etc. Comprehensive VHDL testbenches

Design, verification and testing of the Digital Lineariser subsystem. Test code for the Texas DSP on the board.Digital filters in the FPGA proving VHDL simulations against Matlab.

DSP firmware for Airloop Wireless Local Loop system including ADPCM transcoding, AFC, over-the-air software download, failsafe mechanisms, real-time monitor.LINK Project CDMA mobile telephone demonstration system. Design, implementation and testing of the speech/data path software in the Mobility Manager, Base Station and Mobile Station subsystems.

Design of Packet Voice Subsystem for FPX Frame Relay Switch. Software (Analog Devices assembler) to implement the delay algorithm, packetisation, silence suppression and frame relay encapsulation.

Design of various on-board and ground support systems for satellite-borne scientific experiments for the European Space Agency.

M.Sc (Eng), Microelectronics And Telecommunications

B.Sc, Physics

Education record

Education record