Profile: Pentek, Inc. specializes in digital signal processing. We design COTS digital signal processing, software radio, FPGA and data acquisition commercial & conduction-cooled boards & systems for VME, cPCI, PCI, PCIe, PMC, VXS, VPX & XMC. We are an ISO 9001:2000 certified company. We provide single and multiprocessor boards with Freescale PowerPC chips and Texas Instruments C6000 DSPs. Our signal processing tasks include demodulation, decoding and extraction of a digital signal stream. Telecom applications involve data acquisition ranging from audio through RF depending on the application, and often require algorithms for decoding, commanding, echo cancellation, compression and decompression.