Summary
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications
2015
Session Number:C1L-A
Session:
Number:C1L-A-1
University Ivory Tower: To Stay in or Break Out SDE: A Direct Jump from Scientific Research to Industrial Applications
Geza Kolumban,
pp.756-768
Publication Date:2015/12/1
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
New results achieved in scientific research carried out at universities are verified almost exclusively only by computer simulations. The universities very rarely have the necessary skill, access to IC technology and financial support to turn a new idea into a real-word working system. This approach puts the university research into an ivory tower and develops a gap between university research and industrial applications. Software Defined Electronics (SDE) offers a solution to this challenge if band-pass signals are used to carry the information. The band-pass property makes the substitution of each RF/microwave/optical analog signal processing possible with a low-frequency digital one. In SDE all band-pass signals are transformed into the BaseBand (BB) by a universal HW device and every application is implemented in BB, entirely in software. SDE concept uses (i) the lowest sampling rate attainable theoretically and (ii) the same universal HW transformer in every application. The software defined implementation provides that huge level of flexibility which is a must in scientific research and the SDE concept generates and processes all real-world physical signals required to verify the new idea in a real application scenario.