The Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC) will be exhibiting its open platforms for mobile broadcasting at the NAB 2010 exhibition as part of the International Research Park, Booth SL11105. The demonstrations will encompass two main topics:

Hybrid FM-RDS Internet:

In the logical continuity of our CRC mmbTools and Openmokast works for DAB/DMB, we have integrated and developed new approaches and tools to foster the development of innovative hybrid FM-RDS Internet radio applications and services. We demonstrate our initial results for the first time at NAB 2010:

• Real-time FM and RDS software modulators based on GNU Radio and the universal software defined radio platform USRP
• Real-time FM and RDS reception on the USRP with GNU Radio RDS monitoring
• Official open source release of our portable RDS decoding software library
• Update release of our free CRC mmbTools Live CD which now includes all our FM-RDS tools in addition to our DAB tools
• Live demonstration of an hybrid slideshow application on a commercial Windows Mobile handset with integrated FM and RDS reception capability
• Live demonstration of our RDS decoding library running on an Android handset
• New release of the Openmokast for Android app on the Android Market

DAB/DMB Technologies:

• Official release of CRC-DABPLUS, a DAB+ real-time audio software encoder.
• Release of the CRC-DABMOD source code under a GPL software licence. CRC-DABMOD is a real-time software DAB modulator that generates signals compliant with the DAB standard.
• Live demonstration of an Openmokast application for Android on the T-Mobile G1 handheld. This application is available on the Android Market and decodes standard DAB Slideshow and CELT audio streams in real-time.
• Live demonstration of CRC's “CELT over DAB” application. CELT is a royalty-free audio codec developed by the Xiph.Org foundation.

Contact: François Lefebvre
Email: francois.lefebvre@crc.gc.ca
Twitter: http://twitter.com/fralef
Our channel on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/crcmmb
Our presentations on Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/tag/crcmmb
Personal blog: http://www.broadcasting20.org

For technical details, online and off-line tools, source code and downloads please visit our projects websites:

http://mmbtools.crc.gc.ca
http://www.openmokast.org

For information about other CRC exhibits at NAB 2010 please visit the folloing page:

http://www.crc.gc.ca/nab