Scientists from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) needed software technology to help support future advanced space and ground-based communications operations. They found their solution from Green Hills Software in Santa Barbara, Calif.
The NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland chose the Green Hills Platform for Software Defined Radio (SDR) to provide capabilities necessary for rapid design, development and refinement of its next-generation Space Telecommunications System Architecture (STRS).
Also part of NASA’s advanced communications solution is the flexComm SDR-4000 reconfigurable, multifunction communications platform from Spectrum Signal Processing in Burnaby, British Columbia.
The Green Hills SDR Platform for NASA includes the Integrity real-time operating system (RTOS); dual-mode IPv4 networking stack support; and waveform design and development tools to help users move quickly from concept to deployment.
“The Integrity-based SDR-4000 delivers a complete, integrated SDR hardware and software solution that is optimized for rapid prototyping and deployment,” says Michael Farley, president of Spectrum Signal. “NASA selected this platform because of its ability to aid the availability of its advanced, scalable, reconfigurable and upgradable future STRS radio architecture.”
The use of SDR and STRS technology provides NASA with the capability to support advanced space- and ground-based communications operations while reducing the cost of future missions by reducing and consolidating old radio equipment.
For more information contact Green Hills online at www.ghs.com.
