Zeligsoft and Mercury Team to Support FPGAs used in SDR

Zeligsoft and Mercury Team to Support FPGAs used in Software Defined Radio

Advanced automation tools and radio platform use Open Core Protocol (OCP) to provide component portability for specialized hardware processors

Washington, DC, October 23, 2006 — At MILCOM, Zeligsoft™, a leading vendor of market-specific embedded software development tools, and Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRCY), the leading provider of high-performance, embedded, real-time digital signal and image processing solutions, today announced component portability support for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) used in Software Defined Radio (SDR), and Wide Band Data Links and SATCOM (WBDLS) terminals.

This collaboration is a continuation of Zeligsoft and Mercury’s work with component portability for specialized hardware processors, such as Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) and FPGAs, used in SDRs targeting the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) and recently in WBDLS terminals.

FPGAs are attractive to SDR manufacturers as they provide higher computational density and throughput as well as superior and more flexible I/O capabilities than General Purpose Processors (GPPs). For this reason, FPGAs are essential in WBDLS and small form-factor radio terminals. With support for component portability for specialized hardware processors, Zeligsoft and Mercury make it possible for SDR developers to design, deploy, and re-use their FPGA code in a true component-based software manner to increase productivity and improve flexibility and interoperability.

“There have been a few different methodologies proposed for supporting component-based code development in FPGAs” said Murat Bicer, Product Marketing Manager, Mercury Computer Systems. “Mercury and Zeligsoft’s OCP-based solution can be leveraged today by waveform developers building FPGA code to be used across a number of SCA-compliant SDR and WBDLS platforms.”

“Zeligsoft and Mercury continue to lead the development of solutions needed by the SDR market,” said Kamal Krishnapillai, VP Sales and Marketing, Zeligsoft. “Our respective platforms and development tools make the promise of a reusable system architecture a reality.”

Zeligsoft (Booth #906) and Mercury (Booth #1013) will be jointly demonstrating this capability, co-presenting a paper in the Technical Program’s Radio Systems and Technologies Track, and participating on the panel “COTS is ready for WBDLS processing” during the MILCOM 2006 exhibition taking place October 23rd-25th at the Wardman Park Marriott, Washington, DC.