Spectrum Signal Processing flexComm SDR-3000 Platform Selected for Wideband Electronic Warfare Application
Thursday March 17, 10:00 am ET
BURNABY, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 2005--Spectrum Signal Processing Inc. (TSX: SSY - News; NASDAQ: SSPI - News), today announced that its flexComm SDR-3000 platform has been selected by a leading European defense contractor for the development of a compact electronic warfare platform.
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The contractor will use Spectrum's flexComm SDR-3000 software reconfigurable platform to provide advanced signal processing and transceiver functions in its next generation mobile ultrawideband jamming system. The system will incorporate Spectrum's SDR-3000 platform in a compact, 2U configuration. The customer purchased two systems valued at approximately $100,000 each for its development purposes and expects to purchase an additional nine units for delivery in late 2005 or early 2006 for a lead end-customer deployment. The platform is expected to be marketed internationally by the contractor as a catalogue product to NATO-friendly customers.
"Electronic warfare applications have become an increasingly attractive market opportunity for our software reconfigurable products, including the SDR-3000," said Dan Simard, Managing Director of Spectrum's European operations. "Much of our know-how in signals intelligence and military communications is readily applicable to the electronic warfare market. This expertise, combined with our ability to package the functionality of our SDR-3000 into customized, deployment-scaled platforms, was the key to our success in this design-in."
Spectrum's flexComm SDR-3000 is comprised of a heterogeneous processing platform incorporating field programmable gate arrays from Xilinx® and PowerPC® processors from Freescale(TM) and IBM. RapidIO(TM) provides a high bandwidth interconnect fabric between the processors, as well as the input/output functionality to the processors, to ensure efficient use of the processing resources. Software development tools include Spectrum's quicComm(TM) hardware abstraction layer to facilitate algorithm partitioning and programming, and a real-time operating system. |
