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A team from WINLAB led by Chief Technologist, Ivan Seskar (PI) is part of the Acceleration of Compatibility and Commercialization for Open RAN Deployments (ACCoRD) consortium led by AT&T and Verizon, that has been awarded a $42M grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The diverse consortium of U.S. carriers, foreign carriers, universities and equipment suppliers comes together with the goal of catalyzing the global adoption of interoperable infrastructure in wireless networks.  As one of the few O-RAN Test and Integration Centers (OTIC) in North America, the team from WINLAB will leverage its specialized capabilities in prototyping and preliminary testing of wireless technologies, in supporting the broader team's ability to innovate and deploy the next generation of wireless products. Please see the press release about the award here.

 

Congratulations to the WINLAB team!

My main achievements were in pioneering digital signal processing techniques for the correction of hardware impairments in high-speed digital oscilloscopes, such as magnitude response, phase response, time-interleaving, as well as bandwidth extension.  This culminated in my main set of inventions that combine a microwave front-end and a DSP back-end to double and/or triple the state-of-the-art bandwidth possible in oscilloscopes, which led to LeCroy making the highest bandwidth real-time oscilloscopes for over a decade.  This technique was used to produce a 100 GHz bandwidth, 240 GS/s scope in 2015.  I also pioneered the design and development of time-domain reflectometry (TDR) based network analyzers.

 

The one sentence summary would be that I pioneered DSP and microwave techniques as applied to high-bandwidth real-time digital oscilloscopes.