MRI: Acquisition of Instrumentation for Interdisciplinary Research and Training in Integrated Wireless Communication Systems

提案编号：0521490PI名称： Rojas，Roberto G.PI机构：俄亥俄州州立大学智力优势：该赠款将资助购买建立新的综合无线通信系统实验室（IWCSL）所需的核心设备，以服务于一个多学科社区，在无线技术的各种最先进的活动中进行研究。目标是支持跨越通信系统，信号处理，集成电路和系统，天线，电磁学和设备物理学领域的团队。这些团队将致力于开发用于手持设备的低功耗和极小尺寸的片上系统（SOC），复杂的数字调制，高达60 GHz的无线电频率，对更大带宽和更高数据速率（高达1Gbps）的需求，以容纳更多用户并满足涉及语音，数据和数字多媒体的服务需求。该设备将包括高频矢量信号发生器、模拟信号发生器、先进的矢量信号分析仪、混合信号示波器（1GHz带宽）和探针台，以及对现有大信号网络分析仪的升级。更广泛的影响：这个新实验室将以综合的方式支持俄勒冈州立大学四个主要群体的需求。因此，它将提高教育和学生项目的跨学科融合程度，并使他们接触到对他们未来可能在工业中就业至关重要的真正最先进的设备。该设备将允许学生在新兴领域进行研究，论文和设计项目，如第三代（3G）和第四代（4G）无线系统，空间应用的Ka波段天线相控阵，可编程软件定义无线电，RFID，WLAN，超宽带（UWB）和WiMax系统芯片。

Proposal Number: 0521490PI Name: Rojas, Roberto G.PI Institution: Ohio State University Intellectual Merit: This grant will fund the purchase of the core equipment needed to set up a new Integrated Wireless Communication Systems Laboratory (IWCSL), to serve a multidisciplinary community performing research in a diverse set of state-of-the-art activities in wireless technology. The goal is to support teams which span the fields of communication systems, signal processing, integrated circuits and systems, antennas, electromagnetics and device physics. These teams will address issues such as the effort to develop Systems on a Chip (SOC) for handheld devices with low power and extremely small size, complex digital modulation, radio frequencies as high as 60GHz, the need for more bandwidth and higher data rates (up to 1Gbps), to accommodate more users and meet service demands involving voice, data and digital multimedia. The equipment will include high-frequency vector signal generator, analog signal generator, an advanced vector signal analyzer, mixed signal oscilloscope (1GHz bandwidth) and a probe station, and an upgrade of their existing large signal network analyzer.Broader Impacts: This new laboratory will support the needs of four major groups at OSU, in an integrated fashion. Thus it will enhance the degree of cross-disciplinary integration in education and in student projects, as well as exposing them to truly state-of-the-art equipment important to their possible future employment in industry. This equipment will allow students to pursue research, thesis and design projects in emerging areas such as third (3G) and fourth (4G) generation wireless systems, Ka-band antenna phased arrays for space applications, programmable software defined radios, RFIDs, WLAN, Ultra Wide Band (UWB) and WiMax systems on a chip.