Software-defined radio wins design award

Portable Design Magazine editor's choice award goes to software-defined radio kit for portable modern applications

Xilinx's software-defined radio (SDR) kit, developed in collaboration with ISR Technologies, has received the 2006 Portable Design Magazine Editor's Choice Award.

The kit was selected among several hundred competing products under the criteria of what makes life easier for designers of portable electronic devices.

The SDR kit is an off-the-shelf prototyping-to-production kit designed to accelerate implementation of software-defined radio (SDR) modems for the US Department of Defense Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Program.

"The innovation of the SDR kit is right on target with our reader's demands".

"We reviewed hundreds of entries and considered the Xilinx/ISR development to be worthy of recognition as it improves the quality of portable electronics while making life easier for engineers", says John Donovan, Editor-in-chief for Portable Design.

The SDR kit is the industry's first to support partial reconfiguration and SCA-enabled System-on-Chip (SoC).

The JTRS SDR kit consists of reconfigurable hardware and software elements that are compliant with JTRS-mandated specifications, including the Software Communications Architecture (SCA).

The kit exploits the low-power, high performance digital signal processing (DSP) features of Xilinx Virtex-4 platform FPGAs, along with their partial reconfiguration capabilities, to provide a programmable solution that meets JTRS requirements and lowers overall power consumption and manufacturing cost through more efficient usage of processing resources.

"We are honoured to be named a recipient of the Portable Design Editor's Choice Award".

"This is indicative and in-line with the industry's overwhelming need for SDR solutions that address power and cost", says Manuel Uhm, senior DSP marketing manager at Xilinx".

""Customers can get significant reductions by utilizing the technological concepts in this off-the-shelf prototyping-to- production kit while reducing time to market for production radios".

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