The military, public sector, and commercial mobile device markets demand radios with greater functionality and capacity, in smaller, lower-power packages, and at lower costs for development, acquisition, operation, and technology upgrades. This is driving the transition from static, single-use, hardware-based platforms to more flexible and configurable software-defined radios (SDR).
To support global standardization and interoperability of military radios, the U.S. Department of Defense Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program and the industry created the Software Communications Architecture (SCA). This architecture assists in the development of interoperable SDR communication systems, capturing the benefits of recent technology advances that are expected to greatly enhance radio capabilities while reducing development and deployment costs.
Wind River and PrismTech have joined forces to address the challenge of implementing an efficient SDR platform using the SCA. It provides a complete, high-performance, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) SDR solution for worldwide markets that is supported across a wide array of third-party hardware platforms. This solution combines Wind River's high-performance operating systems and Wind River Workbench development environment with PrismTech's Spectra development platforms for rapid radio deployment and waveform porting and development.
The platform includes Wind River's VxWorks 6 real-time operating system with compliance to both SCA 2.2.2 and POSIX PSE52 run-time libraries, combined with PrismTech's Spectra operating environment, including small form factor core framework and embedded ORB middleware. It's also available with Wind River Linux, with comparable performance, which enables a wide range of complementary SDR applications and hardware platforms to be deployed. Both VxWorks 6 and Wind River Linux platforms support processors from a range of key Wind River semiconductor partners, including ARM, Freescale, and Intel.
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