Wireless Networking and Communications Group

Embedded Signal
Processing Laboratory
Prof. Brian L. Evans
The University of Texas at Austin
From Applications to Gates
Collaboration with Profs. Jeff Andrews (interference modeling), Gustavo de
Veciana (cloud RAN), Andreas Gerstlauer (design automation), Mattan Erez
(cloud RAN), Arjang Hassibi (data converters), Robert Heath (cloud RAN) and
Todd Humphreys (GPS receivers)
February 20, 2016

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Research Group

Present: 3 PhD, 3 MS, 7 BS

Alumni: 26 PhD, 9 MS, 151 BS
1500+ alumni of real-time DSP course
Communication systems
Smart grid communications (interference modeling & mitigation)
Cloud radio access networks (baseband signal compression)

Image processing
Synthetic and augmented reality (visual quality assessment)

Electronic design automation (EDA) tools/methods

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Completed Projects
System

SW
release

Prototype

Funding

equalization

Matlab

DSP/C

Freescale, TI

2x2 testbed

LabVIEW

LabVIEW/PXI

Oil&Gas

Wimax/LTE

resource alloc.

LabVIEW

DSP/C

Freescale, TI

Underwater

large rec. arrays

Matlab

Lake testbed

ARL:UT

Camera

image acquisition

Matlab

DSP/C

Intel, Ricoh

video acquisition

Matlab

Android

TI

image halftoning

Matlab

HP, Xerox

video halftoning

Matlab

Qualcomm

Matlab

FPGA

Intel, NI

Linux/C++

Navy sonar

Navy, NI

ADSL

Display

Contribution

26 PhD and 9 MS alumni

Elec. design fixed point conv.

automation distributed comp.

DSP: Digital Signal Processor

PXI: PCI Extensions for Inst.

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Current Projects
System

Contributions

3 PhD and 2 MS students

SW release

Prototype

Smart grid
comm

interference reduction;
testbeds

LabVIEW

Wi-Fi

interference reduction

Matlab

NI FPGA

time-based analog-todigital converter

Simulink

IBM 45nm
TSMC 180nm

Cellular
(LTE)

cloud radio access net.

baseband compression

Synthetic
Video

visual quality
assessment

EDA

reliability patterns

Matlab

Funding

Freescale, TI Freescale,
modems
IBM, TI
Intel, NI

Huawei

Database;
Matlab
NI