Spectrum Signal Processing Launches New SRDP Rapid-Prototyping Platform

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Burnaby BC (SPX) Feb 01, 2005
Spectrum Signal Processing has announced the flexComm SDR-2000 SRDP, a satellite communications (SATCOM) rapid-prototyping and development platform.

This fully integrated "IF to Ethernet" commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software defined radio platform is designed for the rapid development and deployment of satellite ground stations supporting bi-directional communications with multiple remote terminals.

This is the second product in Spectrum's family of rapid-prototyping and development platforms, which follows the SDR-3000 MRDP, a military communications (MILCOM) platform launched in November 2004.

The SDR-2000 SRDP is a PCI/PCI-X-based platform incorporated on a 2U Dual Intel Xeon server supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES.

The system is architected to support the multiple simultaneous carriers inherent in the frequency allocation schemes typical in many single channel per carrier (SCPC) and multi-frequency time division multiple access (MF-TDMA)-based satellite networks.

The SDR-2000 SRDP is immediately deployable in many SATCOM settings and facilitates rapid technology demonstration through easy programming. Additional benefits and features of this platform can be found here.

"The SDR-2000 SRDP brings together the key elements necessary to accelerate the design and reduce the cost and technical risk of SATCOM projects," said Mark Briggs, Spectrum's Director of Marketing.

"This new platform combines the high performance of field programmable gate array (FPGA) and digital signal processor (DSP)-based front-end processing with a very cost effective Intel-based back-end solution. The system also includes comprehensive software examples that demonstrate application specific SATCOM data flows."

The SDR-2000 SRDP supports two receive and one transmit channel at SATCOM industry standard Intermediate Frequency (IF) of 70 MHz and 140 MHz, with IF bandwidths in excess of 72 MHz.

The platform integrates a high performance Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA-based Wideband IF transceiver with multiple Texas Instruments TMS320C6416-based multiprocessing engines on ePMC/XMC-to-PCI PRO-2900 carrier cards.

The SDR-2000 SRDP is available for order immediately.

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