In this issue:

1. New Integrated Off-the-shelf Platform for Electronic Warfare
2. Spectrum's flexComm solutions to support the U.S. Navy's Advanced Deployable System Program
3. Single-Slot Military Communications Platform Goes International
4. CANSEC 2006: Visit Spectrum's Booth #329 and View MDA's Advanced Satellite Communications Demo
5. SDR meets MIMO: All you need to know about designing MIMO with a software defined radio
6. SDR-4000 for Laser RADAR: 3-D Facial Recognition Imaging Field Trial

[ New Integrated Off-the-Shelf Platform for Electronic Warfare ]

Spectrum recently announced the flexComm™ SDR-3002 EWRDP, a fully integrated, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) "IF-to-Ethernet" platform for the development, prototyping and deployment of wideband Electronic Support (collection) and Electronic Attack (jamming) applications. The platform covers up to 480 MHz of bandwidth over six coherent IF input and output channels, with a multitude of field programmable gate array (FPGA) and general purpose processing (GPP) capabilities. The system is suitable for deployment in many harsh environments and can operate at temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celsius. Engineering teams can accelerate their development efforts by building their applications on top of software examples demonstrating key functionality such as overall system application data flow, multi-channel synchronization and flash memory system booting.

Contact Spectrum today to find out how the SDR-3002 EWRDP can accelerate your Electronic Warfare application development and deployment. Download the datasheet (pdf) and read the complete product announcement.

[ Spectrum's flexComm solutions to support the U.S. Navy's Advanced Deployable System Program ]

The Government Communications Systems Division of Harris Corporation has awarded Spectrum a $1.5 million contract for equipment and services to be deployed in the field trials of the U.S. Navy's Advanced Deployable System (ADS). Spectrum will supply signal processing products and services for use in both ship borne and buoy components of the ADS. Field trials are scheduled to begin in late 2007.

The U.S. Navy's ADS is a rapidly deployable submarine surveillance system designed for the world's littorals, or coastal areas. The system will provide continuous acoustic coverage over vast ocean areas over extended periods and will be capable of detecting quiet nuclear submarines, diesel-electric submarines on the battery, ships exiting or entering port and mine-laying operations. The system will consist of a series of passive, bottom-fixed, battery-powered hydrophones connected to an anchored buoy and linked to a processing station aboard the Navy's new Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). The ship borne platform will use Spectrum's HCDR-1000 VME based platform while the buoy borne platform will use Spectrum's SDR-4000 rugged 3U cPCI platform.

Read the press release and find out more about Spectrum's solutions at www.spectrumsignal.com/products.

[ Single-Slot Military Communications Platform Goes International ]

The SDR-3003 ISMRDP is an international version of its single slot wideband military communications (MILCOM) rapid prototyping and development platform. This platform offers the full "RF to Ethernet" modem processing functionality of Spectrum's SDR-3002 IMRDP in a single slot. It operates from 20 MHz to 3 GHz with intermediate frequency (IF) bandwidths of up to 30 MHz. This fully integrated, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software defined radio (SDR) platform is designed to reduce the effort and schedule required for the development of both Software Communications Architecture (SCA) and non-SCA-enabled military communications programs in North America and abroad.

Contact Spectrum today to find out more about the SDR-3003 ISMRDP. Download the datasheet (pdf) and read the complete product announcement.

[ CANSEC 2006: Visit Spectrum's Booth #329 and View MDA's Advanced Satellite Communications Demo ]

Join Spectrum at Booth 329 during CANSEC to see MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates' exciting Advanced Satcom Terminal demonstration as it runs on Spectrum's SDR-3000. This system is capable of communicating with legacy equipment at rates of at least 2 Mbps, while providing reconfigurability, space-optimized networking and IF/RF switching capability to support an RF network.

Read about the demo in a recent press release, download the application info sheet (pdf) or SDR-3000 datasheet (pdf) or contact sales@spectrumsignal.com.

CANSEC hosted by Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries
April 5-6, 2006  |   Ottawa Congress Centre  |  Ottawa, ON, Canada

Note: Attendance at CANSEC is restricted to CADSI Members, Canadian military and security personnel, government employees and accredited media. To find out how to become a CADSI member, go to www.defenceandsecurity.ca.

[ SDR meets MIMO: All you need to know about designing MIMO with a software defined radio ]

Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless technologies are getting a lot of attention these days.

MIMO has the ability to significantly increase raw data throughput in spectrally limited environments, while at the same time providing immunity to the multipath effects common in urban settings. It has been suggested for use in beyond 3G (B3G) and 4G cellular communications, automobile communications, wireless local and wide area networks, and military communications.

Given the benefits inherent in a MIMO based architecture but something of a lack of maturity in MIMO technology, a question is raised as to how MIMO capabilities can be inserted into radio systems in a cost effective manner after those radios are already in service.

Lee Pucker, Spectrum's Chief Technology Officer, writes about this topic and proposes a model using software defined radio technology as a key enabler in allowing today's emerging wireless systems to support the future insertion of MIMO technology while minimizing overall capital investment.

Read the full article "SDR meets MIMO or, all you need to know about designing MIMO with a software defined radio" online at Wireless Net Design Line (first published by at the SDR Forum).

To find out more about Spectrum's SDR solutions, contact sales@spectrumsignal.com. To view other articles written and contributed by Spectrum, go to www.spectrumsignal.com/publications.

[ SDR-4000 for Laser RADAR: 3-D Facial Recognition Imaging Field Trial ]

Spectrum's latest rugged small form factor SDR-4000 platform has been selected by Digital Signal Corporation (DSC) for the development of a laser RADAR for the U.S. Department of Defense. The laser RADAR based system is being designed to perform precise 3-D facial recognition in a fraction of a second from distances in excess of 10 meters. The project is currently in the prototyping phase with field trials expected in late 2006 and if successful, production shipments may follow in 2007.

For more information, read the complete press release or contact sales@spectrumsignal.com.