Design Tools Target LTE PHY

Feb. 18, 2010

A line of system-level design and verification products for fourth-generation (4G) Long-Term Evolution (LTE) cellular communications physical layer (PHY) design was announced by Agilent Technologies at the Mobile World Congress 2010 event in Barcelona, Spain. Based on the firm's SystemVue computer-aided-engineering (CAE) software platform, the new tools are consistent with the LTE v.8.9.0 standard. They include the W1715 MIMO Channel Builder for evaluating multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) architectures; W1716 Digital Pre-Distortion (DPD) Software for evaluating DPD-based power amplifiers and transceiver integrated circuits (ICs); the W1910/2 LTE Baseband Verification Library Reference Blockset reference library; and the W1912 LTE Baseband Exploration Library, a C++ source code version of the W1910 library.

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Jack Browne

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Jack Browne, Technical Contributor, has worked in technical publishing for over 30 years. He managed the content and production of three technical journals while at the American Institute of Physics, including Medical Physics and the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology. He has been a Publisher and Editor for Penton Media, started the firm’s Wireless Symposium & Exhibition trade show in 1993, and currently serves as Technical Contributor for that company's Microwaves & RF magazine. Browne, who holds a BS in Mathematics from City College of New York and BA degrees in English and Philosophy from Fordham University, is a member of the IEEE.