SDR Forum Working Meeting –September 14 to 17 in San Jose, California  

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The SDR Forum held a working meeting from September 14 to 17 at Xilinx Training Facilities in San Jose, California. This meeting represented the 64th General Meeting of the Forum and comprises working sessions advancing the SDR Forum’s 2010 operations plan in support of the commercial, public safety, satellite communications, and international tactical radio communities.   Groups scheduled to meet in San Jose included:  

• International Tactical Radio Special Interest Group
• Public Safety Special Interest Group
• Satellite Communications Special Interest Group 
• Regulatory Committee
• Cognitive Radio Work Group
• Commercial Baseband Processing Technologies Work Group
• International Security Services API Task Group
• Modeling Language for Mobility Work Group
• RF Technologies Task Group  
• SCA Work Group
• Security Work Group
• Smart Antenna Work Group
• Test and Measurement Task Group
• Transceiver System Interface Task Group

Highlights of this meeting included the following:

• Don Stephens, John Armantrout and Kevin Richardson presented to the SDR Forum on behalf of the JTRS JPEO on Monday 14 September at 1330hrs. See press release - JPEO JTRS initiates the development of a new Software Communications Architecture (SCA) Release
• A keynote presentation by Dean Westman, Vice President – Communications Business, Xilinx entitled ““The Programmable Imperative: Multimode IS the new air interface”
• A workshop on “Rapid FPGA Development for Wireless Applications – IP Cores, Tools, and Standards”. The goal of this workshop is to arm communications systems engineers with the knowledge they need to implement software defined and cognitive radio systems that utilize FPGA based processing.
  Speakers at this workshop included representative of:
• The MathWorks
• Open Cores Protocol – International Partnership
• Objective Interface Systems
• PrismTech
• Synopsis
• Xilinx

A summary of active projects can be found here.

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