Dan DePardo supports the Wireless Communications and Digital Signal Processing Lab and other Center electronic hardware needs. His areas of expertise include microstrip antenna design, surface acoustic wave (SAW) delay line and filter design, photolithography techniques, clean-room procedures, hybrid circuitry design, environmental testing techniques, Mil-spec soldering and assembly, radio frequency interference (RFI) abd electro-magnetic interference (EMI) suppression techniques, along with radio frequency and microwave components, circuitry, and systems in general. His research interests have included developing prototype transceivers for the DARPA Rapidly Deployable Radio Network (RDRN) project; implementing computing, audio, and video hardware in support of the NSF/DARPA Ambient Computational Environments (ACE) project; and construction of various ice measurement radars to support NASA investigations. He is currently focused on the NSF-sponsored development of frequency-agile orthogonal frequency domain multiplexing (OFDM) transceivers, spectrum mapping, and wide-band wireless systems.
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