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Supervisor: Dr. Ahmed F. Shalash

Sponsor: Varkon Semiconductors

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the trademarked project name of a high performance 4th generation air interface

for cellular mobile telephony. Version 9.10 of the standard, which is upheld by the 3rd Generation Partnership

Project (3GPP), was issued in March 2010. The name was trademarked by the European Telecommunications

Standards Institute, one of the associations within the partnership. This standard is one of the two major

candidates that are likely to supersede currently implemented mobile protocols, such as GSM and CDMA, to

provide mobile broadband wireless access.

The scope of the project covers Key building blocks in an LTE transceiver. This includes:

Matlab Modeling (Floating Point) Matlab Modeling (Fixed Point) Verilog RTL Coding/simulation FPGA Prototyping (including test environment)

The Key blocks in the Signal Chain include:

Channel Estimation Fast Fourier Transform with Dynamic Scaling

The Key blocks in the Bit Chains include:

Forward error correction (Turbo Decoder) Viterbi Decoder

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Supervisor: Dr. Ahmed F. Shalash

Sponsor: Varkon Semiconductors

Traditionally, TV broadcasts worldwide have been analogue. However, recently, an increasing number of

countries has begun to adopt digital terrestrial TV (DTT) broadcast and digital cable TV along with the already

existing digital satellite TV. The adoption of digital TV is pushed by several factors. The availability of high

definition personal recorders and the widespread of DVD players have encouraged consumers to switch to

digital home entertainment devices and be more accepting to the switch off to digital TV. The already digital

satellite TV has witnessed an overwhelming spread around the world and more particularly in the middle-east.

The improved functionality and the increased number of channels sent over the satellite makes the switch off

easier. The success of the digital TV experiments in several countries, especially Europe, that is the adoption the

DVB standards gives a great motivator to middle east countries to make the switch off. Currently, most

countries have set near dates for a hard switch off from analogue TV to digital TV. Egypt is scheduled to make

the switch off in 2015.

The scope of the project covers Key building blocks in an LTE transceiver. This includes:

Matlab Modeling (Floating Point) Matlab Modeling (Fixed Point) Verilog RTL Coding FPGA Prototyping (including test environment)

The Key blocks in the Signal Chain include:

Channel Estimation Fast Fourier Transform with Dynamic Scaling

The Key blocks in the Bit Chains include:

Forward error correction (LDPC) BCH Decoder

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If you are interested, please send the following information in an email attachment to:

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For each and every Group Member:

1- Name2- Third year appreciations3- Accumulative appreciation for the previous four years