Strategies and Insight into Sca-Compliant Waveform Application Development

Abstract

Embedded communications engineers are faced with numerous challenges as radio technology drives to-wards Software-Defined Radio (SDR)-based heterogeneous compute platforms. The Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program has attempted to ease development and porting costs by requiring the use of the Software Communication Architecture (SCA) for SDR systems. The SCA is there to help understanding by providing a common framework; however, communication engineers must work in an unfamiliar environment filled with system software concepts such as Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), and middleware using Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). The addition of SCA to SDR development is impacting design methods, work flow, testing, and tooling. Understanding of these impacts, and how to best capitalize on the benefits of SCA, is imperative to the success of any SCA-compliant development. This paper will provide insights into SCA development, work flow, testing, and tooling.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2005
Accession Number
AD1106911

Entities

People

  • Nick Bulat
  • Scott Dyer
  • Yun Zhang

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Deployment
  • Embedded Systems
  • Language
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Operating Systems
  • Radio Equipment
  • Signal Processing
  • Software Defined Radio
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Waveforms

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.