Matt Ettus of Ettus Research and the open-source GNU radio project will be presenting some of his work and talking about the GNU Radio project on Wednesday August 1st in CTVR’s HQ, Lloyd Institute, Trinity College Dublin.

Matt is one of the lead people working on the GNU Radio project. His expertise spans the software and hardware areas directly related to the areas of software-defined radio and dynamic spectrum access. He developed the universal software radio peripheral (USRP), pronounced usurp, and daughterboards, which we have been using as our RF frontends to develop our experimental systems, and for the recent tests and trials of dynamic spectrum access technologies.

GNU Radio is a collection of software that when combined with minimal hardware, allows the construction of radios where the actual waveforms transmitted and received are defined by software. The project is very active with many contributors from academic, industrial and commercial backgrounds.

Date: Wednesday August 1st
Time: 2.30pm
Room: 1.07
Lloyd Institute
Trinity College Dublin

Email us at enwireless at ctvr.ie if you would like to attend.

Directions to the Lloyd Institute

Tom Rondeau from the Center for Wireless Telecommunications, part of the Wireless @ Virginia Tech group has joined us for a year. We are very excited about this because it allows us to really get moving on some highly interesting cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access ideas and projects under development at the moment. Paul and Keith spent some time over with Tom in VT last year and between them (and lots of really good coffee), successfully demonstrated coexistence (the ability of two or more different services to operate on a common centre frequency, and in the same location) and interoperability between CTVR’s reconfigurable radio platform and GNU Radio’s open source software radio system for the first time. We reported some of the early results of this work at this year’s CCNC conference in Las Vegas and IEEE DySPAN conference in Dublin.

Naturally, we chose July 4th to welcome Tom to CTVR and Ireland properly; a day we named Tomdependence Day in his honor.