Edition: July 2010

Strategic alliance with LTE and WiMAX technology experts

Sundance has teamed up with Innovative Solutions to support customers in the design and implementation of optimised wireless access systems.



By offering on-demand training and on-site technical courses, telecoms specialists would be able to master the major areas of broadband communication networks: 3GPP-LTE, WiMAX, OFDM, OFDMA, MIMO, radio network planning and radio interface design.

Furthermore, comprehensive MATLAB software model implementations of LTE (3GPP Release 8 E-UTRA) and WiMAX physical layers are also available for purchase. The LTE PHY Lab and WiMAX PHY Lab licenses can be used at all stages of the software and hardware development from research, prototyping and implementation, up to system benchmarking, verification and testing.

Highlights: MIMO LTE and WiMAX Developer's platform

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Sundance's MIMO LTE and WiMAX hardware development platforms are based on two 1GHz C6455 fixed-point DSP processors and one large Virtex-5 FPGA device. Together these offer the ultimate balance between performance, flexibility and reconfigurability. They are both ideal software defined and device prototyping platforms for system engineers to get started on their wireless based applications.

The 2.4GHz and 5GHz ISM bands MIMO LTE and 2.3-2.7GHz WiMAX RF front-ends are the elementary bricks for all 2n x 2m multichannel inputs and outputs systems. Both platforms feature a dual 12-bit A/D digitizer and dual 12-bit D/A converters to guarantee a good sampling resolution of the two I/Q Rx and Tx signals.

MIMO LTE and WiMAX hardware kits are also respectively compliant with the 3GPP LTE and the WiMAX physical layer models offered by Innovative Solutions. The hardware implementation of such LTE and WIMAX PHY Labs onto Sundance's hardware is also possible.

More information: MIMO LTE Development Kit | WiMAX Development Kit

Zoom in on: 3U PXI Express "beamforming" equipment

SMT702-based High-speed Multichannel beamformer

Sundance is supporting the Wireless Networking Systems Laboratory at Tennessee Technological University, under the responsibility of Dr. Robert C. Qiu, in their developments of UWB sensors and applications in tactical communications and networking.

The delivery of a complete 4-channel I/Q receiver system featuring an advanced, flexible and scaleable architecture will enable the laboratory with the necessary infrastructure to boost their research and innovative approach to cognitive radio and real-time smart grid testbeds.

The multichannel beamformer is built around five SMT702s (two 3GHz A/D digitizer with large Virtex-5 FPGA module) and an embedded controller from National Instruments fully integrated in an 18-slot wide, 3U compact PXI Express chassis (NI PXIe-1075).

Download the application note: SMT702-based beamformer