Product category: Design and Development Hardware
News Release from: Lyrtech | Subject: SFF SCA Development Platform
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 16 November 2006
Platforms address needs for portable SDR
Lyrtech launched the SFF SDR development platforms at the 2006 edition of the SDR Forum Technical Conference.
Collaboration between Lyrtech and Texas Instruments has resulted in the new Small Form Factor (SFF) Software-defined Radio (SDR) Evaluation Module, the SFF SDR Development Platform, and the SFF SCA Development Platform Lyrtech launched the SFF SDR development platforms at the 2006 edition of the SDR Forum Technical Conference, an event that provides an international perspective on the current state of development of software-defined radio
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Designed around the TMS320DM6446 system-on-chip (SoC) from Texas Instruments and Virtex-4 SX35 FPGA from Xilinx, the SFF SDR development platforms address the needs for highly portable SDR of the military, public safety, and commercial markets.
The platforms are designed for low-power, compact, portable applications that closely resemble the architecture of portable radios and nano/femto basestations.
The SFF SDR development platforms are compact and completely self-contained, making them easy to test in the field.
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The SFF SDR Development Platform is separated into three distinct modules - the Digital Processing Module (sold separately as the SFF SDR Evaluation Module), Data Conversion Module, and RF Module - offering developers highly flexible development capabilities.
The Digital Processing Module uses the TMS320DM6446 SoC for baseband processing and the Virtex-4 FPGA.
This offers developers the performance necessary to i