SCA Validation (Software Communications Architecture): Zeligsoft

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SCA Validation

The Software Communications Architecture (SCA) imposes rigorous design constraints to ensure portability of applications across different Software Defined Radio (SDR) platforms.

Zeligsoft's SCA validation reduces risk and increases predictability of SCA-based software development projects by validating the design against the SCA requirements early in the development process.

Automated SCA validation
CE automatically validates various aspects of software radio applications and platforms for Software Communications Architecture compliance:

Component definitions
Device definitions
Applications consisting of components
Platforms consisting of devices
Deployment of applications to platforms
Occurrence of deployments during runtime vs. expected deployments

XML validation
Many SCA-based Software Defined Radio projects have existing, manually-authored XML that needs to be validated. These projects are frequently at the end of their development cycle. Validating the XML by hand, however, requires time and effort. It is expensive, error-prone and limited. Even the most meticulous developer will have severe difficulty verifying large XML descriptor files that contain many cross-references involving obscure tag names and so forth.

Without SCA validation, incorrect XML can lead to rejection during the certification process, as well as serious, potentially dangerous, runtime problems. It can also lead to problems when the components are re-used in other projects. Examples of frequently encountered errors are ports with wrong names, ports with wrong interfaces and ports that are not connected at all.

Zeligsoft CE™ provides complete SCA validation of manually-authored XML for syntactical and semantic correctness and provides guidance on resolving SCA violations. Through this process CE also builds a visual model that enables further manual inspection.

Zeligsoft’s White Paper on Validating SCA Compliant Systems provides additional detail on the requirements of SCA validation.

Adapts to new versions of standards
Zeligsoft future proofs your investment by tracking the SCA standard and adapting CE's SCA validation to comply with new versions as they emerge.

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