Spectra is smart choice for student radio designs

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Feb 9, 2007

Four of the finalists in the SDR Forum's Smart Radio Challenge have selected Spectra Tools to support their work in designing, developing and testing software-defined radios.

Four of the student engineering teams qualifying as finalists in the Software-Defined Radio (SDR) Forum's Smart Radio Challenge have selected Spectra Tools to support their work in designing, developing and testing software-defined radios.

PrismTech, as a major sponsor of the challenge, is providing the tools, training and support to the teams free-of-charge, but had no role in the selection of the tools by the competing teams.

The qualifying finalists were selected by a panel of SDR Forum judges from a large number of initial submissions.

Successful teams from the University of Utah, Universiti Putri Malaysia, and two teams from Virginia Tech have requested PrismTech's tools in this worldwide challenge for student engineers.

Teams must build and demonstrate a software-defined radio that supports specific waveforms, while addressing topical predefined problems.

Several categories of prises will be awarded to teams at the SDR Forum's annual conference in November.

The Spectra Tools suite is the industry's only commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) end-to-end SDR development and deployment environment that is integrated, optimised and supported by a single vendor.

The suite, designed by a team of experienced SDR practitioners and radio domain experts, delivers a number of productivity products including embedded component development tools, low-profile middleware, and compliance testing tools.

SDR developer productivity is greatly enhanced - in terms of both time and code quality - through the advanced model-driven development and domain-specific language technology incorporated in Spectra Tools: unnecessary complexity is eliminated, code correctness and robustness is ensured and overhead is minimised.

PrismTech is working with a large number of radio OEMs and system integrators around the world and the Spectra suite is receiving consistent praise for the ease of use, productivity gains and flexibility.