A Multi-Mission Handheld Software Defined Radio

The ER310™ software-defined radio is a flexible, high-performance, handheld SDR platform designed to host and execute challenging RF applications with demanding real-time processing and communications requirements. ER310™ SDR incorporates large computing capacity and memory, and flexible I/O options. It supports a wide scope of missions, including assured PNT (Positioning, Navigation and Timing), RF situational awareness support, electronic warfare, and communications.

What Is A Software Defined Radio?

Software-defined radio’s (SDR) are communication systems where components that conventionally have been implemented in analog hardware (e.g., mixers, filters, amplifiers, modulators/demodulators). Detectors are instead implemented by means of software on a personal computer or embedded system. While the concept of SDR is not new, the rapidly evolving capabilities of digital electronics render practical many processes which were once only theoretically possible.

Our Software-Defined Radio Capabilities

• Handheld tactical grade high-performance software-defined radio
• Ruggedized for field use and mission durability.
• Water resistant. Secure connection ports
• Integrated L1 C/A GPS RF receiver
• GPS disciplined oscillator
• Industrial grade IMU/barometer
• Operates with Android smartphone for control and display (USB attachment) or as a headless system to support automated, remote, and networked configurations
• 2 Wideband Transceivers: Frequency range 70 MHz to 6 GHz; IBW to 56 MHz
• Low SWaP package: 7.0″ x 2.8″ x 1.5″; 1 lb.
• MBITR AN/PRC148 battery attachment
• High-performance processor
• Multiple I/O facilities
• Supports UHD™
• RF characteristics of Ettus Research™ USRP E310/E312
• Compatible with USRP-operable open-source software-defined radio
• Simplified user interface to multiple apps

Host Complex Mission-Support Applications

• Assured PNT
• Spectrum analysis
• RF situational awareness
• Communications, including LPI/LPD
• Electronic Warfare
• Cognitive radio, cognitive networking
• Includes user interfaces for 3rd party apps

Peanut Software-Defined Radio

Our low-SWaP-C, Peanut SDR combines high performance, compact size, and low-cost in a versatile package to support a variety of complex RF applications. Peanut provides a cost-effective, efficient platform whose use cases can extend from body-wearable solutions to small-UAS applications, alternative PNT (Positioning, Navigation, and Time) and expendable mission support devices. Peanut is available as an OEM single-board circuit card or in an IP67-rated enclosure and is designed to support both DoD and commercial use models.

Peanut’s architecture dramatically minimizes the development cycle of even the most complex signal processing algorithms by reducing FPGA programming requirements and relying instead on accelerated general purpose multi-core ARM processors.

Peanut provides the processing power and I/O support required for complex RF tasks such as the following:

• Alternate PNT (non-GPS/GNSS)
• RF situational awareness
• RF emitter geolocation/tracking
• Tactical edge applications
• Passive communications receiver
• Precision timing backup for electrical grids, financial and comms networks, etc.

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