Engineering Unit

About us

CTTC's engineering unit aims at serving the industry with the latest technological advances and innovations in the telecommunications field. We offer R&D solutions providing our partners with competitive innovation strategies based on our proprietary research.

• Contact us to learn more about tailored innovation ideas and research concepts
• Check some references on previous and ongoing work: partners / showcase
• Find out more about technology transfer consulting and our technical due diligence services

Our edge

We build the competitive performance advantage of our R&D idea generation process around a diversified pool of areas of technical expertise. Learn more about our knowledge groups:

• Communication systems modelling
• Digital baseband design
• Network engineering
• RF/Microwave engineering

We achieve our objective of fostering a culture of sustainable industrial innovation and technological excellence by close and constant collaboration with CTTC's research areas.

Technologies

As an extension to our laboratories, the degree of specialization of some of our research lines requires the continuous development and maintenance of customized testbeds and demonstrators.

Learn more about the progress of our proprietary technology:

Activity lines

Explore further up-to-date information about the details of our current R&D work:

• 3GPP LTE and standarization
• Advanced MIMO techniques for WiMAX systems
• Algorithms for cooperative communications
• Antenna design
• Design and implementation of channel coding systems
• Filterbank and powerline communications
• Impulse radio ultra-wideband transceivers
• Interference assessment for terrestrial and satellite links
• Rapid prototyping of flexible MAC algorithms
• Short range communications
• Wireless and multi-antenna systems
• Wireless networks

Labs & infrastructure

In the nature of our applied scientific research is the support of ideas by practical experience. We understand that this is the only way to take our innovative theoretical conceptions to the technology market plane. For this reason, we have always concentrated efforts on attracting the state-of-the-art in laboratory infrastructure and instrumentation equipment. Six specialized and sophisticated laboratory facilities provide the suitable, core SW and HW elements and the capacities to conduct our research activities:

• Access technologies
• Communications subsystems
• Engineering
• IP technologies
• Optical networking
• Radio communications
• Software tools

Dissemination

The results from our R&D activities at different stages of our work are synthesized and transformed into usable, comprehensible messages shared to the wider audience in the telecommunication industry. We achieved this via the conventional dissemination channels used by the scientific research community, as well as other non-technical channels, and our own report series:

• Engineering technical report series
• KGB talks
• Media
• Scientific publications

Moreover, the results from our R&D activities are also disseminated through our space at CTTC Demo-centre.