Spectra SE V1.1 Further Automates Software Defined Radio (SDR) Waveform Development and Testing; Supports Reverse Engineering of Pre-Existing Waveforms So 'Changing the Rules' for SDR Compliance Testing.

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- PrismTech, a leading provider of productivity tools and middleware, today announced the immediate availability of Version 1.1 of its Spectra SE waveform development and test tool. E[acute accent]Spectra SE is part of the Spectra Power Tools product line of software tools and operating environments for software defined radio (SDR) development and deployment. Spectra Power Tools eliminate the need to handcraft SDR solutions, ensure best practice software design and standards conformance, and help insulate developers from the complexities of SDR architectures. They thus facilitate higher engineer productivity, shorter time-to-market, and application reuse, portability and evolution. Spectra Power Tools currently support the military radio Software Communications Architecture (SCA) v2.2 specification, but are capable of being applied to any software-based communications architecture. Efforts are currently underway to develop Spectra Tools for various commercial SDR domains such as 3G and WiMax. E[acute accent]Spectra SE Version 1.1 supports the modeling of SCA applications directly or via its new reverse engineering feature, and supports the generation of SCA 2.2 compliant XML, C++ source code, and unit tests. The new reverse engineering feature thus allows the automated creation of a high-level component-based view of the waveform from its XML descriptor. This consequently allows the automated forward engineering of source and test code for that waveform. Thus SCA compliance is easily and independently verified and documentation can be automatically produced. E[acute accent]This new feature introduces Spectra SE as a highly productive test and compliance tool for pre-existing SCA waveforms, adding to its already established role as a development and test tool for new SCA waveforms. E[acute accent]Spectra SE is layered on the popular Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org) tools framework and, as such, integrates readily with many popular Eclipse plug-ins including C++ development environments, configuration management integrations, and XML and IDL editors. Use of the Eclipse framework also means that Spectra SE can run on many operating systems including Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc.

E[acute accent]Spectra SE V1.1 features include:

E[acute accent]--Model Creation

E[acute accent]--With support for both manual forward engineering or automatic reverse engineering from SCA Domain Profile XML files

E[acute accent]--Complete compliant SCA artifact generation directly from the model

E[acute accent]--Generation of SCA source code that is compliant with infrastructure requirements

E[acute accent]--Properly designed to isolate infrastructure software from application implementation logic. Allowing the future evolution to differing implementation technologies via code generation plug-ins and allows easy migration to future versions of the SCA and other SDR standards

E[acute accent]--Allowing developers to concentrate on radio functionality vs. infrastructure logic

E[acute accent]--Generation of compliant SCA test code directly from users models

E[acute accent]--Generation of compliant SCA Domain Profiles (XML) directly from user models

E[acute accent]--Including proper SCA compliant validation of these profiles

E[acute accent]--Model Checking and SCA compliance checks

E[acute accent]--Allowing defects to be captured early in the lifecycle thereby simplifying integration and lower costs.

E[acute accent]Introducing Spectra SE V1.1, PrismTech's VP of SDR Engineering, Dominick Paniscotti, said, "We believe that this new release of Spectra SE 'changes the rules' for SDR developers by providing them with a unique tool which encapsulates much of the complexity of SCA waveform design and test. Thus allowing them to focus on application 'value-add', rather than waveform infrastructure development and compliance." E[acute accent]PrismTech's SDR chief scientist, Jerry Bickle, added, "Spectra SE's high-level view of waveform component design and integration abstracts SDR software complexity to a level where systems and software engineers can readily collaborate."

E[acute accent]For further information about the Spectra Power Tools product line please visit PrismTech's website at http://www.prismtech.com.

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E[acute accent]About PrismTech

E[acute accent]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 (OSS) through to software defined radio (SDR). For additional information about PrismTech, visit the web site at http://www.prismtech.com.

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