Software Defined Radio (SDR)

A radio that provides software control of a variety of modulation techniques and waveform requirements, of current and evolving standards, over a broad frequency range.

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Optical communications - Fiber Bragg Gratings

Portfolio of patents covering the Fiber Bragg Gratings manufacturing process.

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CRC-SEAQ

Suite of patented software for the objective and subjective testing of audio quality.

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CRC-COVLAB

Advanced simulation software that performs coverage prediction for various types of communication systems in order to design and optimize networks of transmitters, analyze interference problems and explore new coverage scenarios.

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CRC-COVLITE

Sophisticated path loss estimation tool for single transmitter coverage prediction.

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Video processing technologies

Frame-rate conversion software.
Video-quality assessment.

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Antenna technologies

A range of planar and flat-plate antenna technologies protected by patent and trade secret for use in wireless communications applications.
Supported by a world-class antenna design group.

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Forward Error Correction (FEC) technology

Extremely fast FEC simulation tools for 16-state TurboCodes, yielding throughputs of over 1 Mbps on current PCs.
Innovative interleaving techniques for TurboCodes that yield excellent error flare performance.
HyperCodes and SkewCodes (families of enhanced turbo product codes developed at CRC).

Forward Error Correction research information

Forward Error Correction patent information

CRC-PREDICT

VHF/UHF Propagation Prediction Program used for estimating radio signal strengths on terrestrial paths at VHF and UHF.

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Linearization of power amplifiers

Type-based baseband predistorter function estimation technique for nonlinear power amplifiers.

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Wireless terminal technologies

Broadband wireless point-to-point and point-to-multipoint technologies.

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