Mobile Multicast Receiver - M2RX

Feature-rich mobile handsets are the utmost market desire. The M²RX project will boost and extent the functionality of future mobile equipment by providing SoC concepts and solutions for upcoming broadcast and multicast services (e.g. TV, distance learning, civil protection, ...) and combining them with existing systems (UMTS, GPRS, GSM, etc.). To meet this challenging goal novel circuit and system concepts need to be created by using advanced semiconductor technologies. They shall enable new applications in the area of mobile communication. Thus, low cost, low features size and energy efficiency are of utmost importance to enable future products for the mass market. This will enable a number of new mobile  applications in the portable, battery-operated, energy efficient, low cost and mobile digital environment. Enabling broadcast or multi cast technology, allows much more information flow to the end user than point-to-point connections such as GSM or UMTS.

The project M2RX was started in February 2008 and will have a duration of 2 years. It is a cooperation with

• Infineon Technologies Austria AG
• DICE GmbH & Co KG
• TU Vienna - Institute for Electrical Measurement and Circuit Design
• Johannes Kepler University Linz - ICIE

Carinthia University of Applied Sciences will contribute with CMOS RF design for LNA and mixer circuits including concepts for automatic gain control. Furthermore an evaluation platform will be developed. The project is funded by Fit-IT and industrial partners.