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Software Defined Radio Market Survey Current Status and Future Outlook
Fuji-Keizai USA, Inc., Aug 2004, Pages: 205
This report surveys the emerging Software Defined Radio (SDR) market. The report details the economic and engineering rationales for the adoption of SDR technologies, analyzes vendor strategies for addressing the changes introduced by SDR, and surveys the regulatory environment in which SDR devices must operate.
The report begins with a survey of SDR technologies. The report analyzes, in turn, each of the key components in SDRÑDigital-to-Analog and Analog-to-Digital Converters (DACs and ADCs,) Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs,) Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs,) Digital Signal Processors (DSPs,) General Purpose Processors (GPPs,) software, and emerging technologies such as RF Microelectromechanical Systems (RF MEMS.) The report describes the economics of each of these classes of components in a wireless industry transformed by the adoption of SDR.
Many international research and development projects have focused on SDR. The study includes a summary of several high-profile SDR research projects in North America and Europe, including lists of commercial, academic and government participants.
The core of the report is an analysis of vendor strategies for SDR. The section on vendor strategies looks at relevant segments of the radio hardware industry, as well as the wireless services market, to see how SDR will affect each industry segment. In a series of scenarios for the development of the SDR market, the report uses the concept of the industry profit pool to discuss how some segments of the wireless device industry stand to benefit from SDR technologies, while others may see their margins and market share shrink. ADC and DAC manufacturers, programmable logic and processor vendors, and RF MEMS fabricators, in particular, are most likely to gain market share and margins with the adoption of SDR. Discrete component manufacturers are likely to see shrinking market share. Ironically, software developers, while at the core of the SDR revolution, may find it difficult to reap profits from the switch to flexible, software-based radio architectures.
Conventional regulatory restrictions on type-approval of radio devices will not allow industry and consumers to extract the maximum benefit from SDR technologies. In the US and the European Union, recent regulatory innovations have opened the door to SDR devices. Nevertheless, further reform, especially in the area of spectrum policy, will be necessary before the maximum benefits from SDR can be realized.
This report is available in English and Japanese.
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