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SDR-4000 Value Starter Kits
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The SDR-4000 Family of Value Starter Kits provides a hardware platform to develop and field your own custom modem or terminal solution.
The Value Starter Kits are available in air-cooled, commercial grade components integrated into a 1U rackmount chassis. Since the Value Starter Kits share
the same architecture as Spectrum’s SDR-4000 multi-channel rugged form factor systems, users can migrate
their completed applications unchanged to an SDR-4000 system more suited for harsh deployment environments.
Depending on your application, choose from one of the following Value Starter Kits:
| Value Starter Kit |
Analog IF Input |
Analog IF Output |
Supports Common IF Frequencies Including |
| SDR-4021 |
2 channels |
2 channels |
10.7, 21.4, and 70 MHz at bandwidths up to 36 MHz |
| SDR-4011 |
2 channels |
1 channel |
10.7, 70, 140, and 160 MHz at bandwidths up to 100 MHz |
To order your Value Kit today, contact sales@spectrumsignal.com or
visit
www.spectrumsignal.com/products/platforms/sdr_4000_value_starter_kits.
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SDR-4000 to Support the Inmarsat BGAN Waveform from GateHouse
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Spectrum announced recently that GateHouse Communications, a leader in satellite communications software, has selected Spectrum’s
SDR-4000 software reconfigurable transceiver platform to port their Inmarsat Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) Software Defined Radio (SDR) waveform.
Inmarsat BGAN provides both commercial and military users with access to a reliable and mature global satellite communications network.
Inmarsat BGAN can be found on land-portable, aeronautical, maritime, and vehicular products to provide broadband connectivity while on
the move and in remote areas.
"The combination of a software reconfigurable hardware, like the SDR-4000 platform, with the Inmarsat BGAN SDR waveform opens up
possibilities for a new type of satellite terminal and gateway that is capable of supporting multiple satellite and terrestrial waveform standards,"
said Pia Ankerstjerne, Vice President of GateHouse USA.
Please read about the SDR-4000 or
read the entire release press release for more information.
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FM3TR Waveform Ported to Spectrum's Multi-Purpose Radio
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Spectrum recently announced that the Future Multiband Multiwaveform Modular Tactical Radio (FM3TR) waveform has been successfully ported to Spectrum's
SDR-4000 software reconfigurable transceiver.
Researchers at UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) conducted
the successful work under support from the U.S. Joint Program Executive Office for the Joint Tactical Radio System (JPEO JTRS) program. Calit2 researchers
completed the port in just four months after receiving the SDR-4000 equipment. This waveform can now be readily employed by all of Spectrum's SDR-4000 users.
"The FM3TR project with Calit2 demonstrates that with software defined radio (SDR) technology, a Software Communications Architecture (SCA)-enabled
waveform can be rapidly ported to an industry commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) system, such as Spectrum's SDR-4000," said Dr. Richard North, Technical Director
for JPEO JTRS. "The JPEO JTRS is proud to support the adoption of SDR technologies through programs like the JTRS Open Information Repository (IR)."
The JTRS Open IR contains material donated by the JTRS JPEO as a courtesy to the open-source SDR development community. The plan is that the IR
will continue to grow over time with additional contributions not only from JPEO JTRS and Calit2, but the user community as well. The JTRS FM3TR
waveform code and documentation is available in the JTRS Open IR, accessible at http://jtrs.calit2.net.
For more information, read the full press release, visit the
Calit2 website, or
contact Sales.
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Upcoming Presentation: Software Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio in Satellite Communications
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Join Spectrum and GateHouse Communications at the SDR Forum Technical
Conference and Product Expo in December as they discuss the utilization of software
defined radio (SDR) technology to enable flexible and on-demand use of commercial
satellite communications services on a
commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) SDR platform.
Software Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio in Satellite Communications
December 1, 2009 :: Washington, DC
SDR Forum Technical Conference
To find out more about this topic, contact sales@spectrumsignal.com.
For more about the Conference, please visit www.sdrforum.org.
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Upcoming Presentation: Automatic Synthesis of Flexible
Multiprocessor Systems from Parallel Programs
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Spectrum will be presenting at the SDR Forum Working meeting in September. Join us for the following presentation:
Automatic Synthesis of Flexible Multiprocessor Systems from Parallel Programs
10:30 - 10: 55 am :: September 17, 2009 :: San Jose, CA
SDR Forum Workshop on Rapid FPGA Development for Wireless Applications
Abstract: Multiprocessor architectures on FPGAs can be customized so that the execution of specific computational intensive software implementations, such as signal processing, can be optimized for speed or area. The design of such customized architectures is very complex, consisting of steps such as architecture determination, task mapping, scheduling as well as low level FPGA synthesis, placement and routing. The large size of the design space and non-orthogonal design parameters necessitate design automation through high-level synthesis to facilitate rapid explorations and implementations. This presentation introduces a design flow and high-level synthesis methodology that addresses these design challenges. The presentation will also cover software configuration and automation of vendor-specific FPGA tools in the flow.
For more information on attending the presentation, please visit www.sdrforum.org.
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