[Flexradio] Can anyone help?

[Lux, James P]

The large footprint of corba,etc is why nasa is developing a framework and architecture (STRS)for spacecraft radios that is more aligned with smaller resources and lower power,etc.; for instance, running on a 24MHz cacheless Sparc or a Sparc core instantiated in a fpga.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Frank Goenninger" <frgo at me.com>
To: "Lux, James P" <james.p.lux at jpl.nasa.gov>; "Bob Cowdery" <bob at g3ukb.co.uk>
Cc: "Reflector Flex-Radio" <flexRadio at flex-radio.biz>
Sent: 12/31/08 09:13
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Can anyone help?


Am 31.12.2008 um 16:34 schrieb Lux, James P:

> One of those niches, is, oddly enough, software defined radios.  OMGs
> Software Communications Architecture (SCA) uses CORBA for middleware
> (google
> CORBA SCA for lots of stuff).  So does the DoD Joint Tactical Radio
> System
> (JTRS)..
>
> Both of these are fairly big efforts (multi billion dollar), and one
> can
> find much to gripe about with both, but, as far as installed base,
> they're
> pretty dominant in the SDR world.

Fully agreed.

So, if it is a requirement to be standards-conforming and
interoperable I'd give CORBA a try - if you have the computing power
(I am currently looking for something alike that runs on an AVR
µController ...) I have been playing with MICO (see http://
www.mico.org ). Looks promising (actively maintained, stable, secure)
and is lightweight enough for me.

Cheers
    Frank DG1SBG