PrismTech's Spectra Tools a Popular Choice for Student Finalists in the SDR Forum's Smart Radio Challenge.Several Finalist Teams Select Spectra Tools to Support Their Design, Development and Testing of Software-Defined Radios A software-defined radio (SDR) system is a radio communication system which can tune to any frequency band and receive any modulation across a large frequency spectrum by means of programmable hardware which is controlled by software. BOSTON, Mass. -- PrismTech[TM], a leading provider of advanced software platforms and tools, announced that four of the student engineering teams qualifying as finalists in the Software-Defined Radio (SDR See software defined radio. ) 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 The University of Utah (also The U or the U of U or the UU), located in Salt Lake City, is the flagship public research university in the state of Utah, and one of 10 institutions that make up the Utah System of Higher Education. , 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 pre-defined problems. Several categories of prizes will be awarded to teams at the SDR Forum's annual conference in November. For more information, visit http://www.radiochallenge.org. The Spectra Tools suite is the industry's only commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) Refers to ready-made merchandise that is available for sale. See MOTS. (software) COTS - commercial off-the-shelf. See commercial software. ) end-to-end SDR development and deployment environment that is integrated, optimized 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 Inserted into. See embedded system. component development tools, low-profile middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a , 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 A programming language designed for a particular purpose. For example, Tex is a language used for typesetting, SQL is used to query databases, and Mathematica is used for computations. technology incorporated in Spectra Tools: unnecessary complexity is eliminated, code correctness and robustness is ensured and overhead is minimized. 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. For further information about Spectra please visit http://www.prismtech.com/spectra. About PrismTech PrismTech is an acknowledged leader in the provision of state-of-the-art software platforms and tools that help developers of standards-based, carrier-class systems to: minimize time-to-market, reduce costs, and improve quality and reliability. The Company provides network infrastructure code, development tools, and services for applications from wide-scale integration to embedded Real-time systems Real-time systems Computer systems in which the computer is required to perform its tasks within the time restraints of some process or simultaneously with the system it is assisting. for markets such as: Telecomm Operations Support, Defence C3I C3I Command, Control, Communications & Intelligence (US DoD) C3I Computer Controlled Coil Ignition C3I Command, Control, and Communications Interoperability C3I Command Control Communications and Intelligence , and Software-Defined Radio. PrismTech's customers constitute an impressive list of major systems integrators, network equipment providers and other OEMs, including many Fortune Global 500 companies. PrismTech was founded in 1992 and is a privately-held group with its US operations based in Boston, MA and Saddlebrook, NJ, and European operations in the UK, Germany, Netherlands and France. For additional information about PrismTech, visit the web site at http://www.prismtech.com. |
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