Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX) , the world's leading supplier of programmable logic solutions today announced that its software-defined radio (SDR) kit, developed in collaboration with ISR Technologies, has received the 2006 Portable Design Magazine Editor's Choice Award. The kit was selected among several hundred competing products under the criteria of what makes life easier for designers of portable electronic devices. The SDR kit is an off-the-shelf prototyping-to-production kit designed to accelerate implementation of software-defined radio (SDR) modems for the U.S. Department of Defense Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Program.
"The innovation of the SDR kit is right on target with our reader's demands. We reviewed hundreds of entries and considered the Xilinx/ISR development to be worthy of recognition as it improves the quality of portable electronics while making life easier for engineers," said John Donovan, editor-in-chief for Portable Design.
The SDR kit is the industry's first to support partial reconfiguration and SCA-enabled System-on-Chip (SoC). The JTRS SDR kit consists of reconfigurable hardware and software elements that are compliant with JTRS-mandated specifications, including the Software Communications Architecture (SCA). The kit leverages the low-power, high performance digital signal processing (DSP) features of Xilinx Virtex(TM)-4 platform FPGAs, along with their partial reconfiguration capabilities, to provide a programmable solution that meets JTRS requirements and lowers overall power consumption and manufacturing cost through more efficient usage of processing resources.
"We are honored to be named a recipient of the Portable Design Editor's Choice Award. This is indicative and in-line with the industry's overwhelming need for SDR solutions that address power and cost," said Manuel Uhm, senior DSP marketing manager at Xilinx. "Customers can get significant reductions by utilizing the technological concepts in this off-the-shelf prototyping-to- production kit while reducing time-to-market for production radios."
