SySDSoft A Corporate Overview

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SySDSoftA Corporate Overview
Ahmed Morsy, Ph.D.December 27, 2005
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Outline

• Who are we?
• What do we do?
• Our Projects.

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Who Are We?

• SySDSoft Inc. is a startup company based in
  Cairo, Egypt.
• Established in September 2002.
• Funded through design service contracts.
  Profitable since 2004.
• Our focus communication systems, particularly
  wireless technologies.

Our goal is to become a Worldwide leader
in the design of wireless communication systems
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Our Team

• 13 PhDs from US and Canadian Universities
• (MIT, Minnesota, UCLA, SMU, NC State, Duke,
  British Columbia, Connecticut)
• with Industrial Experience in the US
• (IBM, TI, Lockheed Martin, Ericsson, Cisco,
  Intel, Nortel)
• and over 150 man-year experience.
• 27 SW Developers
• 19 System Designers
• 18 RF Circuit Designers
• 5 Digital Circuit Designers
• High quality engineers with a big cost advantage
• Access to excellent graduates from the top
  universities in Egypt.
• Nature of work gives ability to recruit from
  the best engineers.

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What Do We Do?

• Design Services
• Feasibility Assessment
• Specification and Systems Engineering
• Coding/Circuit Design
• Testing
• Development of novel ideas and solutions (IP)

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Areas of Experience
RF and AMS Design
Tape out Testing
MAC
PHY
Software
Software
General Purpose Processor
Analog (RF) Front End
IF
PHY
Host Interface
MAC Hardware
Hardware
Digital
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RF Circuit Design

• 90nm RF technology guidelines (completed)
• Analog automotive voltage regulator
• (up to 150C / 40V) (completed)
• Continuous-time ADC (0.09-018um) (completed)
• Switched-capacitor ADC (0.09-0.18um) (completed)
• UWB PLL (phase I)
• GPS PLL and ADC (phase I)
• 802.16e tri-band transceiver (phase II)

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Physical Layer

• System-level Design of 802.11b, 802.11a PHY
• (completed)
• 2) Simulation of 802.16d PHY
• (completed)
• 3) Simulation and Optimization of 802.15.3a PHY
• (development phase III)
• 4) Algorithmic Simulation and VHDL code of
• Bluetooth 2.0 (development phase I)

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MAC Protocol Stack
1) Development of 802.11a/b MAC
(completed) 2) Development of 802.11h
MAC (completed) 3) Development of
802.16-2004 MAC (final integration and
testing) 4) Development of CDMA-DO Protocol
Stack Rel.1.0 (phase III) 5) Development of
802.11e MAC (phase II) 4) Study of 802.16e
MAC
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Switching

• Design of Class 5 Switch with capacities
• up to 200,000 subscribers based on
• Intel HW platforms (completed)
• 2) Design of Soft Switch (on hold)

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Network Modeling

• Modeling of the 802.16-2004 Scheduler
• (completed)
• 2) Modeling of QoS in 802.11e (phase I)

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Projects Timeline
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Customer Funnel
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Philips ETC/Quicktel WiLAN UMC Avantquest VIA
Telecom Skyworks Newlogic Firstpass
Siemens SMI Broadcom Analog Devices Thine Wavesat
Morpho Intel
ST Micro Hittite Trendium Symmid Synopsys Altera
Sequans
KEY
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partner
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gt50 prob.
interested
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Thank You