ORNL Selects Spectrum Signal Processing's SDR-3000 Platform for Multiple Research Programs, Including RFID

July 16, 2004

Spectrum Signal Processing Inc., a leading provider of software defined radio (SDR) platforms, today announced that Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a multi-program science and technology laboratory, will use Spectrum's flexComm™ SDR-3000 platform to demonstrate multi-standard Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) readers.

"It was important for us to find a platform that was endorsed by the U.S. Department of Defense Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Joint Program Office (JPO)," said Mr. Don Vinson, a Program Manager with ORNL's National Security Directorate. "There is tremendous potential for SDR technology. ORNL selected the SDR-3000 because the platform is flexible enough to support the diverse range of communications applications that are of interest to us."

"We are proud to be selected by ORNL for their communications research activities. ORNL has purchased an Internal Research and Development (IRAD) package that Spectrum and its partners offer to those customers who are researching the potential of SDR technology and how it can solve challenges in reconfigurable communications applications," says Mark Briggs, Director of Marketing for Spectrum. "The SDR-3000 IRAD package combines hardware and software development tools to help customers such as ORNL reduce their development time and risk," he added.

The flexComm SDR-3000 configuration for ORNL employs heterogeneous processing, consisting of high performance field programmable gate arrays from Xilinx™, and PowerPC™ processors from both Motorola and IBM. The platforms are delivered pre-configured with Wind River's VxWorks™ operating system and Harris's Software Communications Architecture (SCA) core framework. The necessary development tools and licenses are pre-loaded onto the platform, allowing development engineers to immediately commence application development.

The original press release can be found here.

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