Arnon (Nonie) Politi

Interests:

NonieÕs Dots-and-Boxes: A hardware implementation of the familiar pencil-and-paper game. This implementation offers both the interface for playing the game and an intelligent computer player to compete against.

T2NG MP3 Player: An MP3 player extension for the DSLMU board capable of playing MP3 files stored on a Multimedia Card as well as performing control operations, file browsing capabilities and displaying the appropriate information on the LCD screen.

Antenna Arrays for Adaptive Nulling: The project aim is to increase the signal-to-interference ratio of a received signal by using an array of receiving antennas and computing a suitable weighted sum of the waveforms observed by these antennas. The systemÕs job is to find the optimal weights that would maximize the signal-to-interference ratio as an on-going process in order to adapt to the changing surrounding interference.

Wireless Sensor Networks Platform: The purpose of this project is to design and produce hardware platform to be used for developing wireless sensor network applications. Moreover, this hardware platform must be able to address the constraints of size, cost and power imposed on wireless sensor network nodes.

Simple Transmit Diversity Technique: A hardware implementation of a simple transmit diversity technique for wireless communications. The purpose of this project is to deduce a hardware implementation of the scheme described in the technical paper written by S.M. Alamouti. It is done by analyzing the mathematical theory, adjusting it for the digital domain, designing and optimizing the hardware and finally, implementing it.