PrismTech Announces Availability of Spectra OE: the First, Second-Generation* Operating Environment for SDR.VIENNA, Va. -- * A vertically-integrated (CF, ORB, COSx3), low-footprint (<2MB), single-vendor, SCA-compliant software platform offering superior integration, optimization and tools. Uniquely supports GPP GPP Government Performance Project GPP General Purpose Processor GPP General Physical Preparedness GPP Gambian People's Party GPP Good Pharmacy Practice GPP Gross Primary Productivity GPP Green Procurement Program GPP Generic Packetized Protocol , DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive and FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. deployments while maintaining portability. Built by SDR See software defined radio. developers for SDR developers! PrismTech(TM), a leading provider of productivity tools and middleware, today announced the GA release of the Spectra(TM) Operating Environment (OE) v1.0. Spectra OE is a new second generation high-performance, low-overhead run-time environment (software platform) for software defined radio A wireless terminal (phone, PDA, etc.) that is reconfigurable via software. It enables wireless devices to be easily updated to new or later versions of the air interface and allows multiple interfaces to be supported. (SDR) applications. Part of PrismTech's Spectra SDR Tools suite, Spectra OE provides a high-performance, low-overhead core framework (CF) and middleware implementation that runs on any mix of general purpose processor (GPP), digital signal processor A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing, generally in real-time computing. Characteristics of typical Digital Signal Processors
This allows PrismTech to optimize the OE footprint to under 2MB: a 10x reduction in footprint versus first generation SDR OEs. This ultra low footprint for a SDR OE directly translates into lower size, weight, and power (SW&P) requirements and thus makes SDR viable for a wide range of resource-constrained wireless platforms. Spectra OE is also optimized for performance across the complete run-time architecture (CF, middleware, operating system (OS) and custom transports unlike first generation OEs). Spectra OE contains unique technology only available from PrismTech. A pioneer in embedded middleware, PrismTech has produced ultra-low footprint middleware for both DSP and RTL processors to 'enable' these processing elements for SDR applications without those hardware applications becoming highly hardware specific. This breakthrough in hardware abstraction layer (operating system) Hardware Abstraction Layer - (HAL) The layer of Microsoft Windows NT where they have isolated their assembly language code. technology, which allows applications, middleware, and hardware to separately evolve, is a significant step forward for the whole wireless industry. Spectra OE's vertically integrated design, standards-compliance and hardware portability combine to disconnect the software and hardware lifecycles, thus enabling radio configuration and code reuse. This in turn helps extend the life of software applications and reduce the number of hardware platforms a radio OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and needs to support. Thus Spectra OE's technological edge and elegance result in competitive advantage for the user. As a pre-integrated software platform, Spectra OE also greatly reduces the complexity of the run-time environment for the developer, providing a single API rather than three or more product APIs and the associated compatibility, robustness and evolution issues. Spectra OE is available for numerous GPP, DSP and FPGA processors and OS platforms and can be ported to practically any SDR signal processing environment. It incorporates in a single pre-integrated package all required licensable software**. (Alternatively RTOSs can be acquired separately). "Many alternative first generation SDR OE offerings were just bundles of two or more individual components: Core Frameworks, CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global ORBs, Common Object Services," said Dominick Paniscotti, VP Engineering, SDR Products, PrismTech. "Spectra OE has been designed and built as a complete, integrated, and optimized environment from day one so that we can offer such high performance and low overhead benefits." Further information about Spectra OE is available from PrismTech's website at http://www.prismtech.com/spectra. About PrismTech Founded in 1992, with offices in the USA and Europe, PrismTech is a privately held software products company. PrismTech serves international Fortune 500 customers in the telecommunications, data communications, defense and aerospace sectors. PrismTech is an acknowledged leader in productivity tools and middleware, with solutions ranging from wide-scale integration to embedded real-time systems, supporting applications from operations support systems Operations Support Systems (also called Operational Support Systems or OSS) are computer systems used by telecommunications service providers. The term OSS most frequently describes "network systems" dealing with the telecom network itself, supporting processes such (OSS) through to software-defined radio (SDR). For additional information about PrismTech, visit the web site at http://www.prismtech.com. Spectra is a trademark of PrismTech. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. ** Subject to the agreement of the RTOS/BIOS licensor. |
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