PrismTech's Spectra Software Defined Radio product suite features.
Boston, MA, USA - August 13, 2010 - PrismTech's Spectra product suite features in Naval Technology's latest article on Software Defined Radio (SDR).
The article is entitled "Defining Next Generation Radio with SDR". Software-defined radio is set to pave the way for the next generation of military communications equipment. Phil Thane examines how.
For its first 100 years or so, the improvement of radio was driven by the development of better hardware, including improved components, more sophisticated circuits and more precise manufacturing.
During this time, each type of radio was designed with a specific purpose in mind, and the waveband it operated on and the wave form it used was fixed by the hardware. To change a device's behaviour was impossible unless you ripped out and replaced substantial parts of the circuitry.
The arrival of software-defined radio (SDR) changed all that...
To read the full article visit: http://www.naval-technology.com/features/feature92362/