Software Defined Radio SDR

Latest Spectra News
• PrismTech Releases Software Defined Radio (SDR) Benchmarks for Wind River Linux and VxWorks at MILCOM 2009

• Wind River and PrismTech Announce COTS Software Defined Radio Solution - SDR Solution Achieves Breakthrough Performance

• PrismTech Announces General Availability Release of Spectra CX - Next-generation modeling tool for Software-Defined Radio (SDR/SCA) developers

• PrismTech and Zeligsoft partner to deliver Spectra CX

• JTRS Testing and Evaluation Lab (JTEL) Selects PrismTech's Spectra 2 Tools to Facilitate Testing & Certification of JTRS Waveform & Platform Code

• PrismTech's Spectra v2.1 Powers SCA Performance

• PrismTech Solutions Americas Selected to Provide Waveform Portability Support and Expertise to the US Navy's SDR Systems

• Spectra SDR for the Rockwell Collins SCA Waveform Development System

• Spectra SDR for Spectrum Signal SDR-4000 Platforms

• GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms & PrismTech Demonstrate Compact COTS Software Defined Radio

• PrismTech Work for JPEO JTRS Helps Create Industry Guidelines for Waveform Portability

• ITT Corporation Selects PrismTech's Spectra SDR Tools for JTRS-Related SDR Application Development

Latest Spectra SDR / Software Defined Radio Articles
Recent articles authored by PrismTech's leading SDR experts include:
• Next Generation SDR Operating Environment takes on SWAP Challenges
• Achieving Optimized Portable Code through SDR MDD Tools

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Spectra 2 is a complete package of new products, services, partner programs, and development tools for Software Defined Radio (SDR) OEMs, system integrators and independent software vendors. Built upon the success of PrismTech's original Spectra products, Spectra 2 addresses the growth and deployment of SDR by providing the industry with the most comprehensive customer service-focused product line available, and the rapid acceptance of Spectra products represents the validation of the COTS SDR market by SDR developers. Through Spectra 2, PrismTech provides a 'total customer service' package that includes robust waveform and platform developer tools, high performance and low profile operating environments, full compliance support for SDR standards, expert professional services for all phases of SDR development and deployment, and dynamic OEM, SI, and ISV partner programs. Spectra 2 solutions support the Software Communications Architecture (SCA) 2.2 and 2.2.2, as well as the OMG's Software Radio Specification.

Spectra offerings include:

Spectra OE
The industry's highest-performing and lowest-profile fully SCA-compliant operating environment. As evidenced by deployment on extremely small form-factor COTS platforms, Spectra OE has the smallest footprint Operating System (OS) / CORBA / Core Framework (CF)integration of any SCA implementation. Furthermore, it offers unrivaled support for General Purpose Processors (GPP), Digital Signal Processors (DSP) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), thus delivering the SCA prime objective of enabling complete waveform portability between radio platforms. Spectra OE is also available with support for OMG Software Radio Specification compliance.

Spectra CX
Spectra CX is a model-driven development tool that simplifies, accelerates, and validates a significant proportion of SCA development process. SCX validates SCA compliance at the architectural and unit test level, and generates correct-by-construction SCA compliant artifacts, such as: XML descriptor files, compliance test reports, and validation documentation. Spectra CX enables SCA and non-SCA software aspects to be developed together, integrated early, and thoroughly tested. SCX also reduces development risk due to its consistent model-based approach. Together the above benefits result in faster time-to-market, lower costs, better software quality, and superior compliance for all SCA waveform and platform code developed with Spectra CX.

Spectra 2 Power Tools
New levels of productivity for SDR developers in application modeling, code generation, testing, standards compliance and tool integration. The suite also includes enhanced support for multi-language code generation, operating system support, tool upgrades, Eclipse support, auto-launch, application copyrighting, source code commenting, and literally dozens of productivity, ease-of-use and quality upgrades.

Integrated Circuit ORB (ICO)
The ICO supports a drop-in SCA compatible interface between distributed software objects running on processors and waveform objects residing in silicon. Using ICO, one eliminates the need to develop custom proxies on GPPs and DSPs that simply serve to establish communication to waveform objects residing within FPGAs. These proxies (sometimes referred to as Hardware Abstraction Layers – HALs) are used when designing to SDR architectures such as the SCA and are meant to increase portability and re-use, but in practice, they tend to increase latency, reduce throughput, and lower re-use.

Spectra Professional Services
A range of consulting and development options led by recognized authorities on SDR standards and their implementations. These services are engaged today on some of the largest SDR programs worldwide to provide deliverables such as compliance guidelines, waveform source code development and porting, technical training and SCA consulting. Led by two of the original authors of the SCA, and the OMG's Software Radio Specification, Spectra professional services deliver SDR domain solutions from SDR domain experts. Training / Workshops / Consulting.

Spectra Partner Programs
Whether focused on optimizing time-to-market and lowering costs with COTS tools, developing small form-factor platforms, jointly promoting COTS SDRs, educating a reseller channel, or marketing third party SCA components, Spectra 2 partner programs are designed to help radio OEMs take full advantage of the COTS SDR market.