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UT engineers receive military research grant
$1.2 million funding to aid in development of wireless devices
By: Lauren Winchester
Posted: 1/14/08
A government defense bill appropriated $1.2 million to a team of UT
engineering researchers to develop wireless communication devices with
military and civilian uses.
Congressman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, made a formal announcement Friday.
Smith helped approve the Defense Appropriations Bill, passed in the U.S.
House of Representatives, which funds the research. The project, Smith
said, is clearly in the interest of academia and the public.
"It's a special feather in my cap to represent UT," the congressman
said. "I try as a member of Congress to help constituents get the funds
needed to pursue projects that are important to them."
Theodore Rappaport, Sriram Vishwanath, Jacob Abraham and Ranjit
Gharpurey - all members of UT's Electrical & Computer Engineering
department - hope to research and develop massive broadband wireless
communication devices that can be used to communicate high-quality video
and multimedia in homes, offices, outdoors and on the battle field.
On the battle field, the portable content would be accessed via rugged,
lightweight devices that use massive local-area bandwidth connectivity,
according to Rappaport's Web site.
"The Army, instead of relying upon printed books or heavy computing
equipment, could instead rely upon massively broadband data links and
lightweight viewers to transport content from a single source, such as a
server, or from a passive RFID tag," according to the Web site.
"Equipment for the battle field will be substantially lighter in weight
and more rugged, as integrated circuits replace magnetic drives and hard
text media."
This project will result in significant benefits for the state and local
industry, Vishwanath said. Companies with a need to remain competitive
in the future of broadband wireless - such as AT&T, Freescale
Semiconductor, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and many others - will work
closely with faculty in the engineering department at the University and
will thus leverage this funding and research results generated by the
effort, Vishwanath said.
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01/02/2008 09:00:03 AM EST
Business Wire
Business Editors/High-Tech Editors
SUNNYVALE, Calif. & AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--January 2, 2008--Alereon, Inc., Austin Texas-based provider of advanced WiMedia and wireless USB silicon solutions; and LitePoint Corp., Sunnyvale California-based leader in wireless test-system solutions, will demonstrate at next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today's most advanced wireless USB reference design and a test capability that spans development, device verification, and high-volume production. Alereon's AL5000-based reference design and LitePoint's test system will highlight band-group 6, the only WiMedia band-group currently approved worldwide.
While the rest of the market is grappling with partial WiMedia chip solutions, and bolted-together test-instruments for design and verification, Alereon and LitePoint are paving the way for worldwide WiMedia and high-volume production of WiMedia-equipped devices, said Eric Broockman, Alereon's CEO.
It's great to finally have a chip family that covers the full WiMedia specifications, added LitePoint CEO, Benny Madsen. Now, we actually have a reference design that supports all six band groups and WiMedia data rates. As a result, we can show our single-box test prototype's ability to support full development and fast, low-cost, high-volume testing." |
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