Rice team advances to finals in Texas Instruments DSP challenge

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– June 29, 2001Posted in: News Releases

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RICE TEAM ADVANCES
TO FINALS IN TEXAS INSTRUMENTS DSP CHALLENGE


A five-member team of
graduate and undergraduate students from Rice University advanced to the final
round in the worldwide competition of the Texas Instruments Digital Signal
Processor and Analog Challenge 2001 with its entry, Paladin: Personal Mobile
Wireless Video.


The worldwide
competition challenged engineering students to create innovative and functional
designs using one of TI’s digital signal processors (DSPs). The Rice students
are one of three teams who will compete Aug. 7 in Dallas for the grand prize of
$100,000. They have already received $10,000 in prize money after beating out
258 teams in the regional and U.S./Canada/Latin America competitions.


Paladin is a DSP-based
system designed to enable real-time video and audio communication in wireless
devices. The Rice members are graduate students Vinay Bharadwaj and Kanu Chadha
and undergraduate students Patrick Murphy, Jacob Rhodes and Jasper
Yen.


Patrick Frantz, the
sponsor for the group and executive director for the Center for Multimedia
Communications at Rice University, said they “aimed to build DSP-based hardware
that would allow for the capture, compression and transmission of video over
low-bandwidth wireless links.”


“We were able to
successfully design, build and demonstrate a system that may find its way into
applications such as video on cell phones,” he said.


Rice University has been
a leader in DSP research since C. Sidney Burrus, now dean of engineering, and
Thomas W. Parks, now professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell
University, began teaching a DSP course here in 1968. Since then, Rice has been
a major force in DSP research and education, and many outstanding Rice alumni
now hold leadership positions in the field in both academics and
industry.


For more information
about TI’s DSP and Analog Challenge, go to
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/general/dsp/programs/challenge/index.htm


 



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