Spectrum Delivers SDR-3000 MRDP MILCOM Rapid-Prototyping Development Platforms

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The SDR-3000 MRDP is a fully integrated, black-side software defined radio (SDR) platform providing a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) "RF to Ethernet" radio platform for military communications programs (MILCOM). It integrates a high performance fast tuning transceiver with a Software Communications Architecture (SCA)-enabled signal processing platform that has been adopted by the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Technology Laboratory (JTeL) as the only COTS JTRS representative hardware set. Photo courtesy: Spectrum Signal Processing.

Burnaby BC (SPX) Jan 14, 2005
Spectrum Signal Processing announced Wednesday that an unnamed US defense contractor has purchased two SDR-3000 MRDP platforms for use in its internal military communications research and development programs.

The order is the first design-in for Spectrum's flexComm SDR-3000 MRDP, a rapid-prototyping development platform designed for military communications (MILCOM) applications, following its introduction in November 2004.

The customer will use the SDR-3000 MRDP platforms to conduct communications software testing related to the Software Communications Architecture (SCA). The customer also expects to port its internally developed communications software to Spectrum's SDR-3000 MRDP platform for testing and evaluation purposes.

"I am pleased to see the adoption of our SDR-3000 MRDP platform within weeks of its release. This sale to a leading MILCOM defense contractor also underscores that we have hit our target market with the introduction of this new product," stated Pascal Spothelfer, President and CEO of Spectrum Signal Processing.

"We will continue to leverage our communications applications expertise by introducing additional turn-key solutions for the C4ISR market in the near term."

The flexComm SDR-3000 MRDP is the industry's first SCA-enabled "RF to Ethernet" commercial-off-the-shelf solution specifically targeting military communications programs. The platform provides a turnkey black-side processing system for Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) and other MILCOM developers.

This system includes sample application software supporting frequency agile operation, making the SDR-3000 MRDP ideal for rapid prototyping and for both wide and narrowband waveform development.

The SDR-3000 MRDP system is comprised of Spectrum's SDR-3000 software defined radio processing and analog-to-digital converter/digital-to-analog converter boards (PRO-3100, PRO-3500, ePMC-8311 and TM1-3300) in a four slot 2U CompactPCI chassis.

These components are integrated with the Digital Receiver Technology, Inc. DRT-2110 RF transceiver subsystem consisting of a tuner, an exciter and a single-board computer, in a 21-slot 3U CompactPCI chassis.

The system includes all software application libraries, including digital down-conversion and digital up-conversion field programmable gate array cores, operating systems and an SCA Core Framework.

A working software dataflow example demonstrating a Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) modulation and demodulation application is also provided, presenting a starting point for customers' design efforts. The system is flexible, scalable and can be customized as required.

Detailed product information can be found at www.spectrumsignal.com/products/sdr/sdr_3000.asp.

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