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NEWSDR'11 -- The First New England Workshop on
Software-Defined Radio
Boston SDR User Group
Saturday 1 October 2011, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
8 St. Mary's Street, Boston, MA, USA
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Introduction
Software Defined Radio has become an effective and practical tool in
the area of RF communications. The widespread use of SDR has led
to many open source communities sharing the basic blocks of SDR systems.
We hope to gather individuals working on SDR related projects in the greater Boston area
in order to collaborate and introduce SDR concepts to those interested in furthering their
knowledge of SDR capabilities and available resources.
For questions regarding events or to get involved with the organization of future events,
please contact Michael Rahaim at mrahaim@bu.edu referencing SDR-Boston in the subject
of your email.
NEWSDR
The first New England Workshop for Software Defined Radio, held on October 1st, was a
great success! Many thanks to all those who attended and to the speakers who presented throughout the day. We hope to
continue this event as a biannual workshop for Boston area SDR users and plan to hold a similar event in the spring.
At this inaugural event, we had multiple guest lecturers discuss a wide range of SDR
topics and we offered a hands-on breakout session with the GNU Radio project
and SDR hardware (USRP2). With nearly 40 attendees from industry and academia, the event was a great way to learn about new work
in the area of SDR and offered an excellent networking opportunity to meet other individuals working on SDR projects in and around
the Boston area!
Program
The following program was presented at the first NEWSDR. The presentations can
be found in PDF format in the links below. An overview of the breakout session, along with instructions for getting
started with GNU Radio, can also be found here: Breakout Session
History of Software Defined Radio [Tom Rondeau]
SDR in Education [Alex Wyglinski]
Available SDR Hardware [Scott Johnston]
An FPGA Spectrum Sensing Accelerator for Cognitive Radio [George Eichinger]
Overview of UHD [Devin Kelly]
Overview of VOLK [Tom Rondeau]
Overview of QT-GUI [Tom Rondeau]
Keynote Speaker
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Tom Rondeau holds a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in Electrical Engineering, graduating in 2007. Tom is the current maintainer and
lead developer of GNU Radio and is a visiting scholar with the University of Pennsylvania. He also works as a consultant on GNU Radio and wireless technology
through his firm Rondeau Research, LLC. Prior to this, he was a full-time employee of The Center for Communications Research after a postdoctoral researcher
position with CTVR, Trinity College, Dublin from 2007 to 2008.
Tom's Ph.D. dissertation received the Council of Graduate School's Distinguished Dissertation for Math, Science, and Engineering.
His research interests span areas of communications theory, signal processing, and software design, which are all a part of his larger interests in software and
cognitive radios.
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Sponsors
Steering Committee
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