allahabad a twoday workshop on communication systems design using software defined radio sdr and lab view will begin at computer centre 1 of the indian institute of information technology allahabad iiita from tuesday with joint collaboration of iiita and national instruments new delhi about 50 faculty members as well as research scholars b tech ece and m tech students specialising in electronics and communication engineering will receive tips in the cutting edge software defined radio sdr technology as well as lab view of national instruments the iiita director dr m d tiwari said the sdr was a promising technology for realising a single transceiver for communicating over different types of networks which is the primary requirement of the 4g networks the participants will get exposure to sdr system design using lab view software learning the practical limitations and various design constraints and experimenting on the hardware setup developed by national instruments iiitas m radhakrishna will apprise participants with the fundamentals of communication system design and the sdr technology followed by dr neetesh purohit explaining to them the sdr the design aspects later in the day the participants will get hands on practice with lab view for designing simple communication systems participants will acquire knowledge about the sdr set up and use of lab view for data acquisition and analysis