Wireless Waves December 2003

In this issue:

1. Spectrum Teams with Industry Leaders to Offer First SDR Internal Research and Development (IRAD) Package
2. Three Major Military Contractors Select Spectrum’s flexComm Software Defined Radio Platforms
3. Spectrum Launches New Software Maintenance and Technical Support Bundles

[ Spectrum Teams with Industry Leaders to Offer First SDR Internal Research and Development (IRAD) Package ]

Spectrum Signal Processing, Wind River Systems, Inc., and Harris Corporation are offering the industry’s first Software Defined Radio IRAD Package. The package is designed to make SDR development platforms affordable for internal research projects on SDR technologies and waveforms.

• An SDR-3000 development platform
• Version 2.2 of the SCA CF, Harris's Domain Manager ToolKit and Spectrum's SCA BSP, for SDR-3000 specific SCA components
• TAO CORBA middleware
• Wind River's VxWorks real-time operating system and Tornado® 2.2 Integrated Development Environment
• quicComm™, Spectrum's hardware abstraction layer
• Packaged at prices that start at less than US $100K

This complete and affordable software defined radio application development platform is available through Spectrum’s sales channel for qualified research and development programs.
Find out more about this new package and how to qualify!

[ Three Major Military Contractors Select Spectrum’s flexComm Software Defined Radio Platforms ]

Elektrobit Ltd. – We have shipped Elektrobit, a leading European research and development partner for companies that use wireless technologies, flexComm SDR platforms for the Software Defined Radio Demonstrator Program for the Finnish Defence Forces. Our SDR-3000 products will be a core component in the development of this SDR demonstrator. Elektrobit will be using our flexComm PRO-3100 FPGA processing engine, PRO-3500 G4 PowerPC processing engine, transition module reference design, and quicComm™ Hardware Abstraction Layer. The hardware tightly couples the processors and I/O through the communications infrastructure, which includes the use of flexFabric™ based on Serial RapidIO.™ Read more on Elektrobit.

Cubic Corporation - Cubic Defense Applications, a subsidiary of Cubic Corporation, selected our SDR-3000 family of software reconfigurable platforms for a software defined radio waveform development project for military communications. Cubic will be porting an SCA-compliant waveform onto the SDR-3000. The flexComm SDR-3000 SDR Development Platform for Cubic is comprised of a heterogeneous processing platform incorporating Xilinx® FPGAs, and PowerPC® processors from Motorola and IBM. Find out more here!

ACM Systems - Advanced CounterMeasure Systems (ACM Systems), a subsidiary of Sierra Nevada Corporation, will be using our HCDR-1001 family of software reconfigurable platforms for high-speed signal processing. ACM required a high performance Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based signal-processing platform, and Spectrum’s HCDR platform provided an ideal technical solution on the basis of flexibility, scalability and processing power. The flexComm HCDR-1001 configuration for ACM Systems is VME-based and uses high performance FPGAs from Xilinx® and PowerPC® processors from Motorola, Inc. for high bandwidth signal processing. A dual Race++™ interface and Spectrum’s Solano®-based communications fabric are used to enable high-speed communications between the boards and processors. Our Race++-to-Solano bridge provides superior bandwidth over conventional Race++ bridging architectures. For more information on the ACM win click here!

[ Spectrum Launches New Software Maintenance & Support Bundles ]

We offer many key support services such as technical training, software maintenance, technical support and product life cycle management designed to meet all customer requirements for successful program development and deployment. Our goal is to provide you with the highest quality after-sales service in the industry, so we have launched new software maintenance & support bundles that will provide the most benefit to you. Some of these benefits include:

• Guaranteed response time to calls
• Additional support beyond basic product installation
• Notification of the availability of the newest supported software and manual updates
• Increased software reliability as software is maintained and problems addressed
• Simplified request and installation of updated software

For more information on these new services go to the Technical Support page on our website.

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