Startup Eyes Software-Defined Radio
Startup Sandbridge Technologies will introduce its programmable baseband processor at the Microprocesor Forum this week, combining two buzzwords: "software-definable radio" and "reconfigurable computing".
Sandbridge's SandBlaster DSP and SB9600 baseband processor were designed for the multitude of standards surrounding wireless: everything from GSM and WAP protocols, to multimedia-specific algorithms like MPEG-4, to applications languages like Java. By 2006, 140 million of the 700 million mobile phones will have a digital camera attached, according to analyst firm In-Stat/MDR.
The reprogrammable nature of the core allows designers to specify which wireless algorithm the core needs to process at one time, the "software definition" of software-defined radio.
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