Currently, the philosophy of the SCA has been identified with military radios. However, it also holds the potential to play a role in countless applications in our daily lives, from public security to consumer electronics.
Traditionally, the focus has been on reducing the power consumption of SDR hardware, but it’s clear that software also has a major impact, so a holistic approach to reducing SDR power is required. A testbed that can function as an SDR can go a long way in taking the guesswork out of this problem.
The military market remains tentative as the political environment keeps pundits guessing about the military budget, the war in Iraq, the future of many programs and the overall direction of the economy. The embedded electronics portion of that market has struggled in 2006, and 2007 looks only slightly better.
The adoption of IRIG 106 Chapter 10, the Digital On-Board Recorder Standard, is sparking a revolution in the way airborne telemetry data is captured, recorded, analyzed and distributed.
Reliability analysis is made easy by making effective use of a ship’s high-speed, fiber optic LAN, coupled with powerful ability for real-time machinery performance data to be acquired, archived and analyzed by the diagnostic software agents.
As increasingly sophisticated military systems are built in the processor PMC form-factor, these modules are getting faster and more flexible with lots of specialized I/O and lower power consumption.
