Software Defined Radio (SDR) Professional Services

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PrismTech’s Value Add

World-class expertise and best-practice project management (Solution9001(SM) methodology) encapsulated in a broad range of professional services from our SDR experts: training, workshops, development, compliance testing, and consulting.

PrismTech is recognized as the leading vendor of productivity tools, middleware and engineering services for developers of SDRs, in both defense and commercial SDR markets. We are experts in open platform standards (e.g., SCA, SWRADIO) and a pioneer in the enablement of low-power, small form-factor SDRs. Our innovative technologies facilitate application interoperability and reuse across all SDR device architectures (i.e., GPP, DSP, FPGA, and ASIC).

Our experts have been involved in the design and development of SDRs since the mid 1990s and include original architects of the Software Communications Architecture (SCA) and co-founders of the OMG Software Radio Group. The team has extensive experience in building SDR component frameworks, using technologies such as UML, MDA, XML, and object middleware, and developing in languages such as C++, C, Java™ and VHDL.

As testament to our expertise and worldwide involvement, we are active in the following SDR initiatives:
• OMG Software-Based Communications (SWRADIO)
• Software Defined Radio Forum
• Wireless INTeroperability for SECurity (WINTSEC)
• Software and Cognitive Radio for European Defense (SCORED)
• European SDR for Wireless Security Applications (EULER)
• End-to-End Reconfigurable Systems (E2R)
• NATO SW Radio Working Group
• IEEE P1900

We offer a full range of SDR consulting services covering both short and long-term engagements, from advisory services to full-scale development projects. Example consulting engagements are listed below.

Capabilities
• Legacy waveform evaluation, modeling, and enhancement for compliance and porting
• Legacy platform services evaluation, modeling, and enhancement for compliance and porting
• Waveform portability testing
• Waveform and platform compliance analysis
• SDR standards knowledge
• Model-driven testing to verify compliance
• Technology-independent waveform design - allowing components to be readily ported to alternative platforms
• Abstracting functional waveform behavior from infrastructure - to ease migration across standards or versions of a standard
• Automating the generation of standards-specific SDR component infrastructure in the appropriate format (C++, C, VHDL) for the target platform (CF, RTOS, ORB)
• Delivering an architecturally consistent approach to supporting SDR standards across device technologies (GPP, DSP, FPGA), RTOSs and ORBs
• Reverse engineering analysis to identify compliance issues
• SCA waveform development
• SCA platform development – Platform Services / Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)
• SCA operating environment (OE) development – GPP, DSP, FPGA
• OE and Model Driven Design (MDD) Extensions

Résumé
PrismTech’s consulting staff have been involved with most of today’s major SDR programs. Examples include:
• Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) porting to multiple JTRS radio platforms
• Reverse engineering of an existing SRW implementation and generating a new implementation to ensure adherence to the SCA specification
• Developing JTRS waveform porting guidelines
• Supporting small form-factor demonstration for the JTRS/GMR program
• Designing and implementing various SCA-compliant waveforms
• Assisting in the development of several JTRS/SCA-based programs including:
• Step1, Step2a, Step2c
• Cluster1, Cluster2, MAF, Cluster5
• MIDS-J, AJCN, JSF, WIN-T and FCS
• Prototyping and field-testing JTRS radios

Our impressive customer list includes the world’s leading SDR-related companies and organizations including: SPAWAR, ITT, Boeing, Rockwell Collins, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Thales, Harris, MITRE, Indra, and SELEX.

Professional Services Packages

PrismTech offers a suite of training courses on the SCA and CORBA technologies, and their implementation using PrismTech’s Spectra SDR products and OpenFusion CORBA middleware. We also offer professional services conducted by experts in all skill areas required for SCA radio development. Such services include workshops to help system and programming engineers analyze how to develop and/or port waveforms into SCA, as well as full-fledged consulting services with PrismTech SDR specialists participating throughout the development lifecycle, including actual implementation of the SDR solution.

SDR Training Courses
PrismTech SCA-related training courses are usually performed at customer site, or in one of PrismTech’s locations in either the U.K. or U.S. Courses range from half-day webcasts to five-day in-depth classes.

SDR Workshops
Workshops consist of short assignments, usually bundled with a training session, in which a PrismTech expert analyzes with the customer, their specific SCA project requirements, leading to recommendations summarized in a high-level design report.

Consulting Services
For example, implementation of an SCA waveform by PrismTech’s SDR engineers, either on-site, with PrismTech engineers augmenting the customer’s team, or as off-site developments. These services cover any project phase, from design to prototyping and full-fledged developments.