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Reconfigurable, Cognitive Software Defined Radio

Award Information
Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Branch: N/A
Contract: NNX09CC96P
Agency Tracking Number: 084640
Amount: $100,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: O1.03
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2008
Award Year: 2009
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2009-01-22
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2009-07-22
Small Business Information
15400 Calhoun Drive, Suite 400
Rockville, MD 20855-2737
United States
DUNS: 161911532
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: Yes
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Arvind Bhat
 Principal Investigator
 (301) 294-5254
 abhat@i-a-i.com
Business Contact
 Mark James
Title: Business Official
Phone: (301) 294-5221
Email: mjames@i-a-i.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Intelligent Automation Inc, (IAI) is currently developing a software defined radio (SDR) platform that can adaptively switch between different modes of operation for communication, by modifying both transmit waveforms and receive signal-processing tasks on the fly. High-speed analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters along with modern FPGAs and fast digital signal processors allow for maximum flexibility in digital radio design. The proposed software reconfigurable radio implementation technique and the system design will leverage IAI's vast experience in SDR, RF hardware design, signal processing and system level firmware design.

Key innovations of the proposed effort are
• Reconfigurable digital transceiver/ waveform synthesizer design using high speed FPGA.
• Multi-mode radio functionality and scalable architecture.
• Soft-processor based controller and flexible user control to enable on the fly radio configuration.
• Cognitive capabilities like Adaptive modulation and Automatic Modulation Recognition (AMR)
• Complex modulation and bandwidth efficient waveform implementation capability

* Information listed above is at the time of submission. *

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