| Acquisition Program: | |
Objective: | Develop a tool suite that will aid in Software Defined Radio programs with development, qualification testing, standards compliance, porting of waveforms and establishment meaningful analysis metrics.
| Description: | The proposed tool suite will include two different tools: Core Framework (CF) analysis tool and Software Defined Radio (SDR) Diagnostic Test Tool.
CF Analysis Tool: Develop a software tool and define a methodology to evaluate and quantify waveform/radio performance and porting risks, integration characteristics, and risk impacts associated with the interaction of waveforms and cf. This tool and methodology will positively influence future JTRS waveform developments and porting efforts through the establishment of meaningful porting metrics. This tool will aid JTRS developers in analyzing Core Frameworks and determining which will best meet the needs of their programs.
SDR Diagnostic Test Tool: Develop a software tool to provide radio/waveform performance data, standards compliance diagnostics and generate event logs. This tool will aid in the development, integration, and testing of JTRS waveforms by providing access to critical information that makes diagnosing issues and observing technical test scenarios a reality. This SBIR will deliver a suite of government purpose rights software tools that can be utilized by waveform developers, testers, troubleshooters and future maintainers to aid in the development, qualification testing, and porting of waveforms. This tool suite will further enhance the programming environment available to developers and provide for decreased development schedules by providing additional access to debugging information.
This tool suite will be developed using an open source software model. The tool suite will be capable of analyzing compliance to software defined radio standards. Initial development will be done for JTRS using the Software Communications Architecture (SCA) standard, but the software will remain flexible to permit incorporation of additional standards at a later time.
| | PHASE I: The Phase I effort will be a paper study on developing the SDR Tool Suite.
CF Analysis Tool: The paper study for the CF Analysis Tool will incorporate a research effort to determine the metrics that the tool should utilize. The study should include determining the level of flexibility necessary in the tools in order to be capable of running on various CFs. The offeror shall submit high level design documentation showing the feasibility and viability of creating this tool along with a document describing the metrics that will be incorporated.
JTRS Diagnostic Test Tool: The paper study for the JTRS Diagnostic Test Tool will incorporate a study to determine what data is the most relevant and meaningful for waveform and software defined radio developers. This data will then be collected by the tool to provide the appropriate diagnostic information to the user. The diagnostic should include data about hardware and software interaction and the interactions between various software components running on the radio. The tool should be designed to collect data about interaction between various types of software and hardware processes on the radio.
| | PHASE II: Phase II will continue with the performance investigation of the SDR Tool Suite through the generation of metrics by development and testing of the tool and further innovative research on the speed, latency and size of the core framework. They must determine if the CF is fast enough and is the right size for the application; It should include tangible evidence and actual demonstration of software. For the CF Analysis Tool a sampling of CFs should be used to test the capabilities of the tool. For the SDR diagnostic test tool several radio platforms should be selected to prove out the tool.
| | PHASE III: The SDR Tool Suite will be transitioned to various JTRS organizations including the Network Enterprise Domain (
| References: | | Keywords: | SCA, SDR, JTRS |