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：俄亥俄州立大学智力价值：这笔拨款将资助购买建立一个新的集成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，在无线技术领域开展各种最先进的活动。目标是支持跨越通信系统、信号处理、集成电路和系统、天线、电磁学和设备物理等领域的团队。这些团队将解决诸如为手持设备开发片上系统（SOC）等问题，这些设备具有低功耗和极小尺寸，复杂的数字调制，无线电频率高达60GHz，需要更多带宽和更高的数据速率（高达1Gbps），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）和探测站，以及对现有大型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小组的需求。因此，它将提高教育和学生项目的跨学科整合程度，并使他们接触到真正最先进的设备，这对他们未来可能在工业中就业很重要。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、用于空间应用的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芯片系统。

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.