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COVER: Thie cover illustration depicts broadcast technology in general as seen by the public. The article on page 10 investigates digital TV reception and the global challenges associated in defi ning standards and the technologies used.

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Broadcast: Digital TV reception is a global challenges

Nowadays, digital TV is available through transmission media such as cable and satellite as well as over the air, and hundreds of companies have been involved in defi ning standards for its reception. With better communications making the world smaller, you might expect that when new standards are defi ned, the goal would be to make them global. That has not been the case, however, for digital TV. In this article we will explain how different target applications and environments have a strong infl uence on the technologies chosen.

Military: OSSIE rapid prototyping tools help easily reconfi gure software defi ned radios

One of the indisputable advantages of software defi ned radio is re-confi gurability. Its ability to be updated and modifi ed in the future must be also be considered. Various standards have been developed, and one of the most predominant standards to date is the Software Communications Architecture (SCA), originally developed by the United States Department of Defense. An open-source implementation of the SCA has been developed by Dr. Max Robert and a team of students from Dr. Jeff Reed’s Software Radio class and research group at Virginia Tech. The Open Source SCA Implementation Embedded (OSSIE) effort provides an environment, available for free to the public, for development and implementation of SCA called waveforms.

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