We are ushering in a new era of industrial transformation. Automotive and consumer technologies are merging. Telecomm, media, and Internet and search providers are blending. Aerospace systems are enabling consumer services from product delivery to internet access. The catalysts - powerful, low-cost technologies for sensing, computing, communications, and control - are changing the markets of embedded hardware and software, as well as the companies and industries creating the increasingly smart and multi-function systems that leverage those technologies.  This presentation will describe these broad transformations, the research opportunities that they create, and the approaches that trailblazing researchers and organizations are relying on to succeed in this new era.

Over recent years Software Defined Radio (SDR) has evolved from an expensive research lab based activity to a platform for the implementation of efficient DSP algorithms in real-time on FPGAs. In this presentation we will look at SDR model based design using MATLAB in combination with supported SDR hardware implementation platforms.  As part of a concept to implementation design flow, we will show how to develop floating point simulations for the PHY layer of a LTE receiver, implement fixed point simulations, and verify performance using real off-the-air RF data. Using the same MATLAB models, we can generate HDL and C implementations and target a Xilinx Zynq SDR platform.