Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 13:13:23 +0000 From: Christopher Raven <c.raven@ukonline.co.uk> To: freebsd-chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: [Fwd: OS support for active antennas and electromagnetic resonance systems] Message-ID: <363323F3.2EA37A4C@ukonline.co.uk>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------31A12DBC5E69EB01FC36E215 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I don't know if anyone saw this (or thought it was spam). In any case I forwarded it to -chat as I know various core members are subscribed here. -- Christopher Raven E-mail: c.raven@ukonline.co.uk & ICQ: 2254369 http://www.FreeBSD.org/ "The Power To Serve" http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ "A PC is for life, not just for Xmas" --------------31A12DBC5E69EB01FC36E215 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <majordom@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: c.raven@ukonline.co.uk Received: (qmail 7486 invoked from network); 23 Oct 1998 11:21:12 -0000 Received: from hub.freebsd.org (204.216.27.18) by hertz.ukonline.co.uk with SMTP; 23 Oct 1998 11:21:12 -0000 Delivered-To: vmailer-questions@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (VMailer, from userid 1) id 10FF5A207; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 04:07:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA18973 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 04:07:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from indus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (indus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.134.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA18966 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 04:07:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpb@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from localhost (jpb@localhost) by indus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA06747; Fri, 23 Oct 1998 04:04:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 04:04:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "J. Patrick Bedell" <jpb@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: OS support for active antennas and electromagnetic resonance systems Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.981023022259.6954B-100000@indus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi everybody, I'm an electrical engineering student at Berkeley who's working on an on-chip electromagnetic total molecular analysis system. Using multiaxis microcoils in CMOS with XeF2 postprocessing, it will be possible to create a hugely parallel microcoil array. Each solenoidal microcoil would form a pore, and by controlling the input voltages to the array, it should be possible to perform total molecular analysis of a single cell, or any other collection of molecules. This would rely on the interaction of charged (bio)molecules with the electric field imposed by the microcoil electrodes, as well as the molecular interaction with the applied magnetic field. This will enable magnetic deflection of migrating molecules and, most importantly, nuclear magnetic resonance to manifest itself. Right now, I'm trying to design the array of planar microcoils in standard CMOS (using Magic), and will soon be able to create and receive low frequency radiation (below 1 MHz or so). There is a lot of work to be done before nuclear magnetic resonance experiments can be done with the solenoidal micropores, but it will happen. For magnetic resonance molecular imaging, it will be necessary to develop software to control the electromagnetic fields to get the most infomation from the molecular system under analysis. This electromagnetic interaction makes wireless communication possible, as well, and that's why I'm writing to this list. How could the hardware for this microcoil array be created to make it as easy as possible to interface with these EM transceivers? Is there any support for active antenna arrays in Linux now? I am interested in this because I believe that on-chip microantenna arrays will enable at least multigigabyte data rates, and that's a Good Thing. I also believe that it will be possible to build an NMR quantum computer with this device, and I am intensely interested in developing Linux support for quantum coprocessing. I'd be especially interested in hearing from people who are interested in working on operating systems support for active antenna arrays and spatial-division wave multiplexing. I'd like to implement a channel for IP datagrams, upon which can be built systems for mobile routing and routing ecommerce. Feel free to forward this message, if you like. Thanks! Patrick Bedell jpb@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --------------31A12DBC5E69EB01FC36E215-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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