Keynote: John Glossner - Software Defined Radio platform

Abstract:
Sandbridge Technologies has developed a Software Defined Radio platform for executing Communications and Applications algorithms in software. The platform consists of parallel multithreaded processors capable of executing DSP, Java, and RISC control code in a unified Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). Combined with a sophisticated vectorizing, parallelizing, and automatically multithreading compiler, optimized code is produced for the platform from an ANSI-C specification. In this talk, we describe the implementation of a number of communications systems and present performance results for WCDMA, 802.11b, GSM/GPRS, and GPS systems.

Biography:
Dr. John Glossner is CTO & EVP of Engineering at Sandbridge Technologies. Prior to co-founding Sandbridge, John managed the Advanced DSP Technology group, Broadband Transmission Systems group, and was Access Aggregation Business Development manager at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. Prior to IBM, John managed the software effort in Lucent/Motorola’s Starcore DSP design center. John received a Ph.D. in Computer Architecture from TU Delft in the Netherlands for his work on a Multithreaded Java processor with DSP capability. He also received an M.S. degree in Engineering Management and an M.S.E.E. from NTU. John holds a B.S.E.E. degree from Penn State. John has more than 40 publications and 12 issued patents.