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Analog computing demo video: 1,000x faster RF processing
Get a look at testing the VectorWave APU at GPS frequencies, satellite, Wi-Fi, and 5G in an anechoic chamber.
See what happens when you stop digitizing the signal and start computing in analog in this demo. Hosted by founder and CTO Ronald Davis III, VectorWave puts its Analog Processing Unit (APU) to the test across multiple slices of wireless spectrum in an anechoic chamber. For commercial, that means unlocking gigabit speeds on every wireless device. For defense, it means unjammable radios that stay aware of the entire RF environment in real time.
What’s faster than VectorWave?
The speed of light in a vacuum, by a small margin.
What you're about to see is our APU in action. We're in this anechoic chamber here so we can show you how the APU works for a variety of different pieces of wireless spectrum. We're testing this at GPS frequencies, satellite, Wi-Fi, and 5G to show that the APU can fit in a variety of wireless devices.
If you can't process the signal immediately, then you can't be aware of everything that's happening in the wireless environment. You can't guarantee wireless connectivity for everyone.
In my gap year between undergrad and grad school, I was in the Army Research Lab. While there is a DARPA program called “RF Machine Learning Systems” where the goal was to take AI and use it to augment wireless devices with new capabilities and better performance. But there, I realized the hardware didn't exist to put this AI, and run it, on every work radio and wireless device.
VectorWave is the only company building fully analog computers. Every other approach in this space can be classified as either software optimization or digital hardware acceleration. Both of those have the fundamental problem that they still need to digitize the gigabits of data coming into memory before doing the new processing.
So, we do our AI on analog and then we only have to digitize the answer, which is bits instead of gigabits. That means the APU is computing this 1000x faster than is physically possible with other digital processors.
For commercial, that means unlocking spectrum capacity for wireless devices. And for defense, that means making unjammable radios for bus to jamming.
Every wireless device can have at least gigabit speeds. And we may not even need spectrum regulation anymore.
