A Joint Seminar from The MathWorks, Texas Instruments, and Xilinx

Development of Software-Defined Radio Systems

Working together to improve the application development process, The MathWorks, Texas Instruments and Xilinx have integrated products to enable:

• Faster time to deployment
• Productivity boost through product integration
• More efficient use of programming resources
• More robust code generation
• Faster proof of concept through tighter integration with hardware

This seminar will show how The MathWorks family of products, together with tools and devices from Texas Instruments and Xilinx, provides a rapid and efficient development flow for Software-Defined Radio Systems. Through presentations, case studies and demonstrations delivered by experienced engineers from all three companies, attendees will discover how the capabilities of The MathWorks family of products can be applied to quickly develop ideas, test them and share them with colleagues. These designs can then be automatically deployed to a real-time rapid prototyping platform, or to a final embedded product, using an integrated development flow for Texas Instruments and Xilinx devices. Attendees will also discover the capabilities of the devices from Texas Instruments and Xilinx for Software-Defined Radio applications.

Agenda
09:00 – 09:30	Registration & Coffee
09:30 – 10:00	Introductions Introductions to The MathWorks, Texas Instruments and Xilinx, and how these companies are working together in this field.
10:00 – 10:45	The MathWorks: A Development Environment for Signal Processing and Communications Systems A technical overview of The MathWorks software tools for Signal Processing and Communications system development, and an introduction to Model-Based Design as a method of easing the development flow for complex systems.
10:45 – 11:10	Coffee Break
11:10 – 11:45	Texas Instruments: A Technical Overview of the C6000 Platform for Software-Defined Communications Systems An overview of TI’s SDR product roadmap including C6000 DSPs followed by technical overview of how system designers can leverage highly-efficient, programmable DSPs to address increasing performance requirements of Software Defined Radios.
11:45 – 12:45	The MathWorks: Developing Signal Processing Applications for Implementation on the C6000 DSP Family How MATLAB can be used to support developments on the C6000 and other TI processors, and how C code can be automatically generated from Simulink-based designs for use on these processors.
12:45 - 13:45	Lunch
13:45 – 14:30	Xilinx: Overview of FPGA Platforms and Xilinx System Generator for Software-Defined Radio Applications An overview of the Xilinx FPGA platforms, and a technical presentation on how the System Generator FPGA development tool based on Simulink will accelerate the development of SDR based designs.
14:30 - 15:05	Sundance: A Software-Defined Radio Development Platform A case-study on the development of an FM3TR communications system including demonstration on the Sundance SMT8036 SDR Development Board.
15:05 - 15:25	Coffee Break
15:25 - 16:15	The MathWorks: Software-Defined Radio and GPS Using a Xilinx and TI –based Software-Defined Radio development platform from LYRTECH, examples will be demonstrated highlighting the technologies discussed during the day. This will include a worked example of a GPS receiver.
16:15 - 16:30	Discussion and Closing Summary