Zeligsoft Paves the Way for Standardized European Software Defined Radio

Zeligsoft Paves the Way for Standardized European Software Defined Radio

Proven tool suite offers immediate benefit to evolving standard and product development initiatives

London, UK, December 7, 2006 — At the Software Defined Radio 2006 conference, Zeligsoft™, a leading vendor of market-specific embedded software development tools today announced that its Software Defined Radio (SDR) tool suite provides immediate benefit to projects focused on achieving radio interoperability across European security agencies and military forces.

A number of EU-coordinated research and technology projects will be conducted over the upcoming years. Under the European Defence Agency (EDA) umbrella, 5 member states announced project ESSOR (European Secured Software Defined Radio Referential) aimed at enhancing interoperability of medium-term national SDR projects. WINTSEC (Wireless Interoperability for Security), a project under the EU’s PASR* 2006, will study solutions to overcome wireless interoperability issues across security agencies, and will elaborate the European “SDR Architectural Framework”. The EDA has approved a three year joint investment program focused on R&T priorities including secure wireless communication. The EDA is also studying longer-term SDR requirements.

Zeligsoft currently dominates the SDR development tools market with installed base licenses in Tier 1 integrators and defence labs in the USA, Europe and Asia Pacific. Zeligsoft’s customers use Component Enabler™ (CE), Code Generator, and the SDR Development Suite to accelerate and de-risk projects conforming to the Software Communications Architecture (SCA), an established, SDR-specific component framework standard. Zeligsoft is working closely with its partners in support of European SDR related activities and is committed to providing ongoing and active support for the evolving European SDR standard.

Current and near term European projects can benefit significantly by utilizing Zeligsoft’s solution. With this strategy, researchers and developers will:

• Be able to specify, develop, and test radio behavior using a proven, integrated tooling and SDR operating environment (OE) solution;
• Become familiar with elements of a standardized component-based radio OE including component framework, Object Request Broker (ORB), and real-time operating system (RTOS);
• Be able to observe and modify their radio’s behavior deployed in an operational system.

“A significant head start can be achieved by initiating projects with Zeligsoft’s integrated offering of tooling and SCA operating environment,” said Mark Hermeling, Director of Applications Engineering, Zeligsoft. “Radio behavior can be defined and tested today, either in advance of platform availability or using existing SCA-compliant platforms. Using Zeligsoft tools, the project can then be easily migrated to the evolving European SDR standard.”

To accommodate a new component framework, a design is first modified and validated against the new standard, and a revised stream of component descriptor files and component “wrapper” code is automatically generated using Zeligsoft’s SDR development environment. When working with Zeligsoft’s template-based tools, developers are assured that their behavioral design and radio code will remain independent from the component framework, allowing for efficient migration to a new standardized framework.

“The technology underlying Software Defined Radio builds-in portability and re-usability,” said Neil Patterson, Director of Product Management, Zeligsoft. “We are eager to help the European SDR community develop re-usable SDR code streams that can be easily migrated to the evolving European SDR standard.”

“With SDR activity underway in several European nations, and recent announcements of SDR projects being sponsored by the EC and the EDA, the European market continues to gain momentum,” said Dan Simard, Managing Director of Spectrum Signal Processing UK. “Zeligsoft’s tools coupled with Spectrum’s SDR platforms are being used in Europe today. They provide a much needed off-the-shelf integrated solution which can support the development and deployment of European Software Defined Radios.”

Additional information about using Zeligsoft’s SDR development environment for European interoperable radio can be obtained at Software Defined Radio 2006, taking place December 7th-8th at the Waldorf Hilton, London, UK. Interested parties are also welcome to e-mail info@zeligsoft.com.

*Preparatory Action on Enhancement of the European industrial potential in the field of Security Research