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Product category: Design and Development Hardware
News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2006-) | Subject: SDR Development Platform
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 14 November 2006

Platform promotes software-defined radio
designs

Small Form Factor Software Defined Radio Development Platform is the industry's first and only development platform targeted at the portable military communications market.

Continuing to deliver on its commitment to provide the most comprehensive and flexible development tools in the industry, Texas Instruments has announced the availability of its Small Form Factor Software Defined Radio (SDR) Development Platform, the industry's first and only development platform targeted at the portable military communications market The platform, developed in collaboration with Xilinx and other third parties, provides the entire signal chain hardware from antenna to baseband as well as a software board support package that supports a complete suite of software development tools in a single integrated development platform

With the kit, developers can easily design waveforms as well as create and test single- or multiprotocol radios for applications in military, public safety, commercial, Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) and land mobile radio (LMR) communication systems as well as RFID readers.

Additionally, as the platform is integrated to work with Simulink model-based design tool, developers have the option to use C/HDL or Matlab Simulink to quickly test proof-of-concept designs and then optimise the architecture for cost and power.

Next-generation radios require a software defined architecture that supports multiple protocols while providing standardised hardware that can implement a broad range of systems from simple baseband to complex wideband radios.