White Papers and Application Notes

Simplex Remote Telemetry Gateway Receiver
Spectrum provided a gateway receiver to a satellite network operator that significantly increased capacity and sensitivity for their asset tracking and remote monitoring services.
by Spectrum Signal Procesing

Introduction to Electronic Counter Measures (pdf)
An introduction to Electronic Counter Measures.
by Lee Pucker, Chief Technology Officer, Spectrum Signal Processing

Channelization Techniques for Software Defined Radio
A comparison and contrast of three of the more popular channelization techniques: Digital Down Conversion, Frequency Domain Filtering, and Polyphase FFT Filter Banks.
by Lee Pucker, Chief Technology Officer, Spectrum Signal Processing

Software Defined Radio Solutions for C4ISR Applications (pdf)
Improving military communication technologies through software defined radio subsystems to support legacy and new wideband waveforms.
by Lee Pucker, Chief Technology Officer, Spectrum Signal Processing

Multi-Channel Direction Finding System (pdf)
Creating a multi-channel directional finding (DF) system to support 12 coherent antenna inputs in the HF frequency range.
by Cyrus Sy, Field Application Engineer, Spectrum Signal Processing

Leading-Edge Satellite Services (pdf)
Spectrum's leading-edge technology provides a new standards-based, high channel density solution to perform return link signal processing directly to satellite hubs.
by Frank Van Hooft, Manager Systems Engineering, Spectrum Signal Processing

Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Networks (pdf)
Enhancing fixed broadband wireless access networks through high performance, flexible signal processing subsystems.
by Phil Jones, Director, Commercial Business Development, Spectrum Signal Processing

Reconfigurable Wideband Digital Receiver System for W-CDMA (pdf)
A solution to address the signal processing complexity of W-CDMA and configurability to adapt to 3G standards as they emerge and evolve.

Solano Communications IC (pdf)
Perspectives on optimizing digital signal processing through software-driven wideband wireless architecture.
by Lee Pucker, Chief Technology Officer, Spectrum Signal Processing

A Software Radio Architecture for Smart Antenna (pdf)
An implementation of a beam forming system on a Distributed Shared Memory architecture.
by Mohammad Darwish and Cecil Lau, Spectrum Signal Processing

DSP Technology Optimizes Multi-Channel Receivers (pdf)
Digital signal processing is rapidly transforming the architecture of wireless communications systems.
by Toby Haynes, Senior Technical Lead, Spectrum Signal Processing

A Primer on Beam Forming (pdf)
An introduction to beam forming.
by Toby Haynes, Senior Technical Lead, Spectrum Signal Processing