ENGINEERING

Spectrum has announced the availability of an extremely powerful and flexible Linux-based signal processing platform: the SDR-2010. The SDR-2010 is an Intel 64 Architecture Server hosting the new high-performance PRO-2910 PCI Express based carrier cards, each with dual XMC/PMC sites. This unique configuration gives all the flexibility and processing power of an embedded signal processing system while using an Intel-based server or PC as the host. The PRO-2910 carrier and the associated modules have already shipped to leading defense clients.

"The SDR-2010 allows our customers to reuse their existing IP in a new, more powerful, Intel-based signal processing platform," said Douglas Fast, President of Spectrum. "This product demonstrates that we remain committed to providing our customers with flexible, high performance platforms that reduce their development time and cost."

The SDR-2010 features data rates of up to 400 MB/s between XMC sites and PRO-2910 boards, multiple 8-lane PCIe Gen1 interfaces to the PC motherboard, a high-speed communications fabric, and customizable server features such as CPU, RAM, and high-speed disk options. The SDR-2010 is also available in a ruggedized rackmount chassis for deployment.

The PRO-2910 is a unique carrier card with flexible data routing that can be used to interface to Spectrum's real-time FPGA, DSP, and I/O processing engines into industry-standard Intel computing architectures. The module supports Spectrum Solano-based XMC modules such as the XMC-1131 ADC and XMC-2131 DAC modules, as well as third-party PMC modules.

The SDR-2010 and PRO-2910 are used in Electronic Warfare (EW), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) including wideband spectral analysis and multi-channel direction finding, and Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) applications. These products allow numerous combinations of FPGA, DSP and GPP signal processing devices to support a wide range of software-reconfigurable applications.