SBIR/STTR Research Award
Advanced Robust Modulation (ARM)
Award amount
$483,482Program and phase
STTR · Phase IIAward year
2005Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- NOVA ENGINEERING, INC.
- Proposal award date
- 2005-09-20
- Contract end date
- 2006-11-19
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- N04-T031
Research abstract
Nova Engineering and UCSD propose a constant envelope orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CE-OFDM) waveform as a software improvement to the current OFDM software defined radio (SDR) implementations. The proposed waveform allows the current WNW OFDM Signal-in-Space (SiS) to be inexpensively upgraded with a constant envelope operating mode. Constant envelope operation eliminates the problematic need for linear amplification and the associated power back-off. This technique enables operation in the nonlinear region of the power amplifier (PA), gaining significant power savings. Phase II will result in the demonstration of the CE-OFDM waveform operating on the JTRS Cluster 1 Development Configuration hardware.
Technology keywords
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