| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/K39707/01 |
| Title: |
FLEXIBLE AND PROGRAMMABLE ARCHITECTURE FOR RADIO COMMUNICATIONS TEST EQUIPMENT (PACT) |
| Principal Investigator: |
McGeehan, Professor J |
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| Department: |
Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Bristol |
| Scheme: |
LINK |
| Starts: |
31 July 1996 |
Ends: |
30 July 1999 |
Value (£): |
298,057
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| RF & Microwave Technology |
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In order to ensure that test equipment is ready and waiting with every new product emerging from the standards process, the design and customising of test equipment must be significantly speeded up. It is proposed to address this problem by developing a novel, flexible strategy to test equipment design, that would not only permit current and future generation products to be tested as they were being developed, but could also be used to aid their development and even in the development of the standards on which they were based. A truly flexible architecture, supported by the appropriate software design tools, could be used to `build a test mobile or base station, complete with protocol software, and allow the user to experiment with the fundamental operating parameters of the system. Decisions about the choice of modulation scheme, symbol rate, coding type, access mechanism, contention protocol and even fundamental operating frequency, could be changed right up until the last moment, with `live tests being performed at each stage to substantiate the choices made. In this manner, the turn-around time for specifications could be very significantly reduced it would remove the need to design and construct a `test-bed system. At a later date, with the addition of an appropriate user interface, the same hardware and software could be used as the basis of a type approval test system. Finally, the hardware and software could be used in simplifed versions of the test equipment to support service and maintenance in the field.
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http://www.bris.ac.uk |