Military Embedded Systems published a very good article covering both the current status of the JTRS program and a little bit of history. If you’re involved in JTRS and/or SDR, you’ll enjoy this informative piece.
The rash of JTRS related announcements and news stories over the past few weeks clearly shows that the program is in transition. Perhaps we should pause for a moment to see if we can get a handle on the bigger picture.
Harris’ new MBC-100 “Mobile Subscriber Device” is based on some impressive sounding technology from Altair Semiconductor — the O²P Software Defined Radio processor.
While we may like to toss around the term “Software Defined XYZ”, the truth is that all modern systems are the result of careful tradeoffs between hardware and software. Grant Martin shares his perspectives on the topic.
The U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations has slashed funding for GMR due to the unfortunate setbacks in that part of the program.
EB, Elektrobit Corporation’s Tactical Wireless IP Network is being deployed by the Finnish Defense Forces. It looks like some extremely interesting technology.
Porting complex embedded systems to new platforms is hard. Foresight’s Resource Aware Modeling and Simulation methodology can tame the beast.
Austin based Kuma Signals just announced that they’ve been awarded a $750K contract from the US Navy to continue developing wireless communications technology.
PrismTech is presenting a webcast on SCA Waveform Design for FPGAs. I’m looking forward to seeing it.
SDR is the keystone of Sprint’s Network Vision overhaul, according to a story on Connected Planet.
