EE 445S Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Laboratory - Lecture 16

Before Lecture

• "Peace Train", Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), Concert for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Award for Dr. Mohammad Yunus. Dr. Yunus is from Bangladesh, and received his PhD in economics in 1971 from Vanderbilt University while on a US Fulbright Fellowship. In Bangladesh, Dr. Yunus founded Grameen Bank in 1976. Dr. Yunus and the Grameen Bank received the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts through microcredit to create economic and social development from below".

• There are 3.7B unique cell phone subscribers worldwide for a global population estimated to be 7B as of Oct. 31, 2011. How to expand cell phone subscriber base when
  • Half of the world's population lives on US $2.50 or less per day, and
  • One-third of the world's population lives on US $2 or less per day?

Announcements

• "An architecture for compute-intensive, custom machine vision", March 2013. Architecture is the TI OMAP L-138 digital signal processor plus a Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA.

• "Networking Technology: Wireless Fundamentals", Babbage Science and Technology Blog, The Economist, March 3, 2012.

Lecture

• Lecture on Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) Receivers in PowerPoint format. Video: Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

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