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// about sigpro labs

DSP education
built on real hardware.

SigPro Labs designs affordable signal-processing platforms for engineers and students who want to learn DSP by writing code that runs on hardware, not by trusting a black-box library call.

// why we built it

DSP is best learned hands-on.

A generation of engineers learned digital signal processing from MATLAB plots and homework problem sets. The concepts stuck for some, but the gap from coursework to a real DMA buffer, a real codec, and a real radio environment was hard to bridge.

RadioSonic closes that gap by running RF-like waveforms in the acoustic band. The same multipath, Doppler, beamforming, and modulation phenomena that show up in over-the-air links appear in the lab on a USB-powered board you can carry in a backpack. Students implement filters at the algorithm level in C and watch the audio change in real time.

Our courses are designed around the same hardware. No SDR license required, no $1,000 RF lab, no PhD prerequisite.

// the team

Two engineers with decades of DSP experience.

Dan Boschen

Dan Boschen

Co-founder / Courses & curriculum

Dan Boschen holds a Master of Science in Communications and Signal Processing from Northeastern University and brings broad industry experience designing radio transceivers and modem hardware, having worked across the entire signal chain from baseband through RF to the antenna in engineering roles at Signal Technologies, MITRE, Airvana, and Hittite Microwave. He currently serves as a Senior Technical Staff Engineer for Hardware at Microchip Technology, leading the design of advanced frequency and time solutions while consulting worldwide on wireless and RF communications, beam-steering phased-array design, and advanced signal processing algorithms. An active DSP educator for more than 20 years, he contributes extensively to dsprelated.com and dsp.stackexchange.com, presents workshops at GNU Radio conferences and serves on the conference organizing committee, and has taught signal processing and software-defined radio courses for international audiences and private industry. He recently co-founded SigPro Labs to make hands-on SDR education more accessible through purpose-built hardware and curriculum, including the RadioSonic platform.

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Jamie Mitchell

Co-founder / Hardware & firmware

Jamie Mitchell holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and is a certified Project Management Professional, with a career spanning more than a decade at Microchip Technology's Frequency and Time Systems group designing some of the world's most precise atomic clocks. There he rose to Senior Engineering Manager, directing a 25-person R&D organization and a multimillion-dollar budget while serving as principal engineer on cesium frequency standard development. His hands-on expertise runs deep in precision mixed-signal and FPGA design, including custom time-to-digital converters accurate to the picosecond, low-noise measurement systems, and a patented 3-D motion-sensing device. Through his consultancy, Potter Hill Technologies, he takes on a deliberately broad range of embedded and mixed-signal projects, designing motor drivers, large-scale thermoelectric cooler controllers, atomic clock modules, complex automated test rigs, and robotic pipetting systems for lab automation, among others. He co-founded SigPro Labs to bring that same hands-on engineering to education, leading RadioSonic's hardware and real-time DSP firmware so students can learn signal processing on real, affordable hardware rather than simulations alone.

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// what we believe

Principles we build by.

01

Real Hardware augmented by simulation.

Real engineering intuition is built on the board itself, with simulation working alongside it to explore ideas and verify results, so the two reinforce each other rather than stand in for one another.

02

Affordable enough for a classroom.

RadioSonic starts at $39. A full course bundle ships for under $100. SDR-level learning shouldn't require an SDR-level budget.

03

Get Exposed to Code.

Drop-in lesson firmware exposes a single function for each lab. Students focus on filter design, not driver setup.

04

Lower the prerequisites.

If you finished an undergraduate Signals and Systems course, you can complete our curriculum. No prior C or embedded experience required.

Want to talk?

Course enrollment, university licensing, partnerships, custom work, or just a hello.

Send a message info@sigprolabs.com