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SCA-Compliant Design Flow for SDR
Software Communication Architecture (SCA) is a US military standard that defines software component structure and interfaces for Software-Defined Radios (SDR), to ensure transportability and quality. Formerly, achieving SCA compliance was a difficult and manual process. Today, dedicated commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platforms from Keysight Technologies (SystemVue) and PrismTech (Spectra CX) are providing streamlined solutions for both physical layer communications design as well as software component deployment. This unique product linkage creates superior PHY algorithms that are pre-verified against COTS IP references, realistic RF models, and test equipment, and then packaged and quickly deployed in SCA-compliant operating environments.
This connected SCA-compliant SDR design flow was demonstrated at the SDR Forum conference (Dec. 2009, Washington DC). For more information, refer to:
- Demonstration Video: Rapid Prototyping of SCA-Compliant Waveforms for SDR (8:34)
- Webcast (slides): "Accelerate Deployment of SCA-compliant Software Define Radio Waveforms"
- Article: "The Coming of Age of the Software Communications Architecture" (Microwave Journal, July 2010)
- Related topic: Using SystemVue for Custom OFDM formats (as featured at Wireless Innovation Forum 2010) - no longer available
- Application Note: Addressing SDR Design and Measurement Challenges
- Application Note: Combining Simulation and Test to Accelerate SDR Development
