Publications

Spectrum's SDR-4000 rugged modem offered with L-3 Nova's Wideband Networking Waveform OFDM physical layer
Senior Editor, Military & Aerospace Electronics
Military & Aerospace Electronics, April 2008

SDR: Is the Technology Catching Up to the Vision?
David B Cotton, Contributing Editor, COTS Journal
COTS Journal, February 2008

Part 2: Technology insertion in advanced wireless systems - Real-world examples
Lee Pucker, Chief Technology Officer, Spectrum Signal Processing by Vecima and Kevin Oler, Senior Research Engineer, General Dynamics Canada
Wireless Net DesignLine, October 2007

Part 1: Facilitating technology insertion in advanced wireless systems
Lee Pucker, Chief Technology Officer, Spectrum Signal Processing by Vecima
Wireless Net DesignLine, August 2007

Can MHAL be the Industry Standard Modem Hardware Abstraction Layer? (pdf)
Lee Pucker, Chief Technology Officer, Spectrum Signal Processing by Vecima
IEEE Communications Magazine, Radio Supplement, September 2007

Component-Based Development of Radio Systems and Subsystems: Are We There Yet? (pdf)
Lee Pucker, Chief Technology Officer, Spectrum Signal Processing by Vecima
IEEE Communications Magazine, Radio Supplement, June 2007

3U CompactPCI for Quick Response C4ISR Systems (pdf)
Lee Pucker, Chief Technology Officer, Spectrum Signal Processing and
Cyrus Sy, Product Manager, Spectrum Signal Processing
CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA Systems Magazine, April 2007

Can the Military use Commercial Wireless Signal Processing Technologies to Reduce Size, Weight and Power in Radio Devices? (pdf)
Lee Pucker, Chief Technology Officer, Spectrum Signal Processing
IEEE Communications Magazine, Radio Supplement, March 2007

Does the Wireless Industry Really Need All of These Standards? (pdf)
Lee Pucker, Chief Technology Officer, Spectrum Signal Processing
IEEE Communications Magazine, Radio Supplement, December 2006

Is There Really Such a Thing as a "DSP" Anymore? (pdf)
Lee Pucker, Chief Technology Officer, Spectrum Signal Processing
IEEE Communications Magazine, Radio Supplement, September 2006

Maximizing Waveform Portability in a Radio Architecture Through a Common Hardware Abstraction Layer Model (pdf)
Lee Pucker, Chief Technology Officer, Spectrum Signal Processing
IEEE Communications Magazine, Radio Supplement, March 2006

Finding MIMO: A Proposed Model for Incorporating Multiple Input, Multiple Output Technology into Software Defined Radios (pdf)
Lee Pucker, Chief Technology Officer, Spectrum Signal Processing
SDR 2005 Technical Conference, November 2005

Which Architectural Model Should I Adopt in my Wireless Communications Systems? Well, once again, it depends... (pdf)
Lee Pucker, Chief Technology Officer, Spectrum Signal Processing
IEEE Communications Magazine, Radio Supplement, December 2005

Mapping Waveforms to Systems: What would a wideband networking waveform system require? (pdf)
Kevin Maier, Systems Engineer, Spectrum Signal Processing
Military Embedded Systems, October 2005

Which Signal Processing Technologies Should I Use in My Wireless Application? Well, It Depends... (pdf)
Lee Pucker, Chief Technology Officer, Spectrum Signal Processing
IEEE Communications Magazine, Radio Supplement, September 2005

Contractors Balance Speed and Efficiency in Digital Signal Processing
Ben Ames, Senior Editor, Military & Aerospace Electronics
Military & Aerospace Electronics, September 2005

How to Achieve Application Software Portability
Chris Brand, Software Lead, Spectrum Signal Processing
COTS Journal, August 2005

Is the Wireless Industry Ready for Component Based System Development (pdf)
Lee Pucker, Chief Technology Officer, Spectrum Signal Processing
IEEE Communications Magazine, Radio Supplement, June 2005

A COTS developer's point of view on Radio Frequency Identification (pdf)
Kevin Maier, Systems Engineer, Spectrum Signal Processing
CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA Systems, April 2005

Does the wireless industry really need all these digital IF standards? (pdf)
Lee Pucker, Chief Technology Officer, Spectrum Signal Processing
IEEE Communications Magazine, Radio Supplement, March 2005

SDR platform enables reconfigurable direction finding system (pdf)
Jyothsna Rajan, Applications Engineer, Spectrum Signal Processing
RF Design, January 2005

Software Defined Radio Isnt Just About Software
David B. Cotton, Contributing Editor, COTS Journal
COTS Journal, January 2005

Implementation of a Shared Resource Model in a Tactical Radio System (pdf)
Lee Pucker, Chief Technology Officer, Spectrum Signal Processing
MILCOM 2004 Conference Proceedings, November 2004

Researchers try to build a better RFID reader
Ben Ames, Senior Editor, Military & Aerospace Electronics
Military & Aerospace Electronics, January 2005

FPGAs Infiltrate Heterogeneous Processing Architectures
Jeff Child, Senior Editor, COTS Journal
COTS Journal, December 2004

Software-Defined Radio and JTRS
John McHale, Senior Editor, Military & Aerospace Electronics
Military & Aerospace Electronics, December 2004

SCA Framework Puts a CORBA Face on FPGAs (pdf)
Liana Land, Field Applications Engineer, Spectrum Signal Processing
COTS Journal, October 2004

Trends in DSP: Has FPGA Technology Peaked in Wireless Applications? (pdf)
Lee Pucker, CTO, Spectrum Signal Processing
IEEE Communications Magazine, Radio Suppliment, September 2004

Catching the Waveform: New NASA Satellite-to-Satellite Communications Take Shape (pdf)
Peter Simmons, Technical Marketing Specialist, Spectrum Signal Processing
CompactPCI and Advanced TCA Systems, August 2004

Extending the SCA Core Framework Inside the Modem Architecture of a Software Defined Radio (pdf)
Lee Pucker, CTO, and Geoff Holt, Senior Software Engineer, Spectrum Signal Processing
IEEE Communications Magazine, March 2004

Software Radio Gets Boost in Canada (pdf)
Tim Gouldson, Editor, Canadian Electronics
Canadian Electronics, September 2004

FPGAs and DSPs face off in military design
Ben Ames, Senior Editor, Military & Aerospace Electronics
Military & Aerospace Electronics, May 2004

Cubic to use Spectrum Signal technology for JTRS
John McHale, Senior Editor, Military & Aerospace Electronics
Military & Aerospace Electronics, March 2004

Common API Strategy Aids Heterogeneous Processing (pdf)
Kevin Maier, Software Technical Lead, Spectrum Signal Processing
RTC Magazine, February 2004

FPGAs Pave Road to Reconfigurable Computing
Jeff Child, Senior Editor, COTS Journal
COTS Journal, February 2004

Will Software Radio Become Reality - And When (pdf)
Contributions by Manuel Uhm, Senior Manager, Strategic Marketing, Spectrum Signal Processing
COTS Journal, January 2004

Applicability of the JTRS Software Communications Architecture in Advanced MILSATCOM Terminals (pdf)
Lee Pucker, CTO, Spectrum Signal Processing
MILCOM 2003 Conference Proceedings, November 2003

Distributed Hot Swap Management in an Embedded System (pdf)
Chris Brand, Software Technical Lead and Geoff Holt, Senior Software Engineer, Spectrum Signal Processing
CompactPCI, November 2003

Heterogeneous Processing Meets System Level Needs (pdf)
Manuel Uhm, Senior Manager, Strategic Marketing, Spectrum Signal Processing
RTC Magazine, June 2003

Multi-Channel SDR Architectures for C4ISR Applications (pdf)
Reese Bovard Director, Applications Engineering and Services, Spectrum Signal Processing Inc. and Adam Bush, RF design engineer, Signia-IDT
RF Design, May 2003

FPGA & AltiVec vs DSP (pdf)
Contributions by Manuel Uhm, Senior Manager, Strategic Marketing, Spectrum Signal Processing
Military & Aerospace Magazine, May 2003

NASA uses Spectrum Software Defined Radio Technology for Satellite Communications (pdf)
Contributions by Manuel Uhm, Senior Manager, Strategic Marketing, Spectrum Signal Processing and Jason Soloff, Communication Systems Engineer, NASA
Military & Aerospace Magazine, May 2003

Software Defined Radios Make Their Move Recent Advances Highlight the Technologies and the Solutions that are now available for SDR Processing Systems (pdf)
Tim Owen Field Applications Engineer, Spectrum Signal Processing Inc.
Wireless Systems Design, March 2003

Using Adaptive Beam Forming in Real-Life Tactical Situations (pdf)
Manuel Uhm, Sr. Manager Strategic Marketing and Lee Pucker, CTO, Spectrum Signal Processing Inc.
COTS Journal, January 2003

Adaptive Beam Forming Techniques in Software (pdf)
Liana Land, Field Applications Engineer, Spectrum Signal Processing USA Inc.
COTS Journal, January 2003

BAE Systems uses Spectrum Technology for New Signal Acquisition System
Contributors: Manuel Uhm, Senior Manager, Strategic Marketing, Spectrum Signal Processing
Military & Aerospace Magazine, December 2002

Spectrum's flexComm Signal Processing Technology Enables Hughes Network Systems' Leading-edge Satellite Services (pdf)
Frank Van Hooft, Manager of Systems Engineering, Spectrum Signal Processing Inc.
CompactPCI Systems, November 2002

Implementation of an OFDM Transceiver using an SDR Platform (pdf)
Cyrus Sy, Field Applications Engineer, Spectrum Signal Processing
Wireless Design & Development Magazine, August 2002

A High-Performance SDR Implementation for CompactPCI (pdf)
Rob Kraft, Field Applications Engineer, Spectrum Signal Processing
CompactPCI Systems, July-August 2002

EDO Corp uses Spectrum DSP boards for Signals Intelligence System (pdf)
Contributors: Manuel Uhm, Senior Manager, Strategic Marketing, Spectrum Signal Processing and EDO staff
Military & Aerospace Magazine, May 2002

Sorting Through the Comms Infrastructure Choices for Software Defined Radio (pdf)
Lee Pucker, System Architect, Vivian Ward, Technical Lead, Frank Van Hooft, Systems Engineering Manager; Spectrum Signal Processing
RTC Magazine, April 2002

A Reconfigurable Software Digital Radio Architecture for Electronic Signal Interception, Identification, Communication and Jamming (pdf)
Frank Van Hooft , System Engineering Manager and Mohammad Darwish , Senior Technical Lead; Spectrum Signal Processing
COTS Journal, April 2002

Can Defense Capitalize on Commercial Software Defined Radios? (pdf)
Manuel Uhm, Senior Manager, Strategic Marketing, Spectrum Signal Processing
COTS Journal, January 2002

Software Communications Architecture: Who has the Responsibility for Implementation? (pdf)
Kevin Maier, Technical Lead, Spectrum Signal Processing
COTS Journal, January 2002

Software Define Radio Solutions for DF Signal Processing Systems (pdf)
Tim Owen, Applications Engineer, Spectrum Signal Processing
Wireless Design & Development, October 2001

An SDR Platform for Satellite Earth Stations (pdf)
Rob Kraft, Field Applications Engineer, Spectrum Signal Processing
Base Station Earth Station, July 2001

Understanding SDR Requirements (pdf)
Gord Finlay, Technical Analyst, Spectrum Signal Processing
Wireless Systems & Design, July 2001

Paving Paths to Software Radio Design
Lee Pucker, Systems Architect, Spectrum Signal Processing
Communication Systems Design, June 2001

A Generic Platform for Mobile Wireless Test and Measurement
Lee Pucker, Systems Architect, Spectrum Signal Processing
Military & AerospaceElectronics, June 2001

The Challenge of Moving from DSP Boards to DSP Subsystems
J.R. Wilson, Editor, Military & Aerospace Electronics
Military & Aerospace Electronics, May 2001

Design Considerations for Device Drivers in High-Availability CompactPCI Systems (pdf)
Chris Brand, Software Technical Lead, Spectrum Signal Processing
COTS Journal, April 2001

Canadian Software Radio Developers Choose Spectrum Signal's flexComm technology
Editor, Military & Aerospace Electronics
Military & Aerospace Electronics, March 2001