Hello Everyone,
We would like to announce the second virtual meetup of the South Indian SDR User Group (SI-SDR-UG)!
The South Indian SDR User Group (SI-SDR-UG) was founded in January 2021, and is a community of people, from novices to experts, spanning industry, academia, and government, who are interested in the design and implementation of Software-Defined Radio (SDR) technology and systems. This includes such diverse areas such as RF, digital signal processing (DSP), wireless communications, operating systems, computer networking, software development and optimization, machine learning, and radio hardware. The mission of our community is to facilitate the exchange of ideas and enable greater collaboration within the SDR community in India. We host regular technical workshops and gatherings, and we also run a dedicated Slack workspace for the community. We have a YouTube channel for recordings of past events, and a GitHub page for any relevant code. Our Twitter feed contains announcements about events and other news relevant to the community. We are not focused or tied to any one single software tool, hardware platform, commercial vendor, or specific technology. The SI-SDR-UG is non-profit, and the people on the organizing committee are all volunteers. We are based in Bangalore, but we invite people from all throughout India, as well as from outside India, to join our community.
Our second event will be held today, i.e Saturday October 23 at 19:00 (India time), and will be streamed live on our YouTube account.
Please see our website for more information about the event agenda, as well as links to our Slack workspace and YouTube account.
The second meetup has a diverse and interesting presentations by the following speakers:
1) Mr. Alekh Gupta: Alek Gupta a current student of the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee will be making a presentation on the Digital Pre Distortion module for GNU Radio he developed.
2) Mr. Yashodhan Vivek: Mr. Vivek will be making a presentation on Computational Electromagnetics and Antenna Design.
3) Dr. Sylvain Lefebvre: Dr. Lefebvre is a senior researcher at INRIA, France. He will be presenting his RISV-V dual core CPU design in the HDL language he developed known as Silice, which adds quality of life improvements to verilog. His previous presentation on the basics of Silice is hosted on our YouTube channel. If you wish to code along, we recommend an IceStorm or IceBreaker FPGA module.
4) Dr. Gandhiraj Rajendran: Dr. Rajendran is a professor at Amrita Institute of Technology, and will be making a presentation on building a low cost lab at home using Software Defined Radio.
5) David Michaeli: David Michaeli is the creator of the Caribou Lite, a low cost SDR for edge devices. The Caribou Lite will be available next year for purchase on Crowdsupply. He will be presenting the design of his edge SDR, how product decisions were made.
We hope you find our lineup of speakers as exciting as we do, and hope to see you on Saturday for our second virtual meetup.
Please join our slack channel if you want to interact with the speakers and ask questions during the event.
We look forward to seeing you all on Saturday October 23!
Thanks, and regards,
Rohan Sundar
Organizing Committee SI-SDR-UG