This Presentation discusses the recently approved Software Communications Architecture version 4.0 (previously known as SCA Next) with specific emphasis on optimization and customization to satisfy the unique constraints and performance requirements of a specific system.
The document discusses the current and projected supply and demand of dentists in the United States. It notes that the ratio of dentists to population is decreasing and that the dental workforce lacks diversity. While demand for dental services is high, especially among underserved populations, the current dental workforce and system does not have the capacity to meet this demand. Solutions proposed include expanding the roles of other oral health professionals, integrating oral healthcare into primary care settings, and addressing barriers to access like cost, location of services, and attitudes.
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Cloud Messaging is a key building block at the foundation of any Internet Scale native and web application. PrismTech’s Vortex Cloud provides an innovative solution to address the problems of efficiently and securely distributing data and raising events on an Internet Scale.
This presentation will (1) position Vortex Cloud with respect to some of the mainstream Cloud Messaging implementations, such as those found as part of the Microsoft Azure Platform, Amazon EC2, and the Google Cloud Platform (2) explain the unique features provided by Vortex Cloud, and (3) teach you how to get started writing native or web applications that leverage Vortex Cloud.
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This two part tutorial presentation (1) introduces the key concepts of Vortex, (2) gets you started with using Vortex to efficiently exchange data across mobile, embedded, desktop, cloud and web applications, and (3) provides a series of best practices, patterns and idioms to get the best out of Vortex.
The document discusses the current and projected supply and demand of dentists in the United States. It notes that the ratio of dentists to population is decreasing and that the dental workforce lacks diversity. While demand for dental services is high, especially among underserved populations, the current dental workforce and system does not have the capacity to meet this demand. Solutions proposed include expanding the roles of other oral health professionals, integrating oral healthcare into primary care settings, and addressing barriers to access like cost, location of services, and attitudes.
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The widespread availability of high-end mobile devices such as smart-phones, tablets and phablets, along with the availability of browser enabled devices, has imposed these platforms as one of the main targets for user interfaces. As a result mobile and web applications need now to be easily connected to the rest of the system. This presentation will showcase how the PrismTech Vortex Data Sharing Platform can be effectively and productively used to create connected mobile and web applications, and take you through the steps required to use Vortex in mobile and web applications.
Cloud Messaging is a key building block at the foundation of any Internet Scale native and web application. PrismTech’s Vortex Cloud provides an innovative solution to address the problems of efficiently and securely distributing data and raising events on an Internet Scale.
This presentation will (1) position Vortex Cloud with respect to some of the mainstream Cloud Messaging implementations, such as those found as part of the Microsoft Azure Platform, Amazon EC2, and the Google Cloud Platform (2) explain the unique features provided by Vortex Cloud, and (3) teach you how to get started writing native or web applications that leverage Vortex Cloud.
Vortex Lite is a lightweight implementation of the DDS standard that is optimized for resource-constrained devices. It has a small runtime footprint of around 450KB and provides low latency of 30 microseconds or less. Vortex Lite can connect devices to the Vortex Cloud to enable device-to-cloud and device-to-device communication using DDS. It supports both publishing and subscribing to data using a simple C API.
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This presentation details how a key healthcare interoperability program, the Medical Device Plug-and-Play (MD PnP) initiative, is using the Data Distribution Service (DDS) in the reference implementation for their Integrated Clinical Environment (ICE).
PrismTech's Vortex is a platform that provides seamless, ubiquitous, efficient and timely data sharing across mobile, embedded, desktop, cloud and web applications. Today Vortex is the enabling technology at the core the most innovative Internet of Things and Industrial Internet applications, such as Smart Cities, Smart Grids, and Smart Traffic.
This two part tutorial presentation (1) introduces the key concepts of Vortex, (2) gets you started with using Vortex to efficiently exchange data across mobile, embedded, desktop, cloud and web applications, and (3) provides a series of best practices, patterns and idioms to get the best out of Vortex.
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In the past few years we have experienced an amazing proliferation of mobile and embedded platforms. Contemporary developers are increasingly being faced with the challenge of writing applications that can run on desktop, mobile (e.g. Android and iOS), and on low-cost embedded platforms (e.g. Raspberry-Pi and Beaglebone). This is causing a rejuvenated interest in the Java platform as a means to achieve the holy grail of write-once and run-everywhere. With the availability of Java environments supporting almost any kind of device in several different form factors, the missing element of the picture is an effective way of enabling communication between them.
Vortex Café is a pure Java implementation of the OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS) that enables seamless, efficient and timely data sharing across multi-core machines, mobile and embedded devices.
This presentation will (1) introduce the main abstractions provided by Vortex Café, (2) provide an overview of its architecture and explain how it exploits Staged Event Driven Architectures to optimize its runtime behavior depending on the target hardware, (3) provide an overview of the typical performance delivered by Vortex Café, and (4) get you started developing distributed Java and Scala applications with Vortex Café.
This document provides an overview of Vortex Web, a JavaScript API that allows HTML5/JavaScript applications to communicate in real-time using the Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard. It describes the client-side and server-side architecture of Vortex Web, how it takes advantage of HTML5 features like WebSockets, and how Vortex Web can be deployed both with traditional DDS systems and cloud-based Vortex Cloud systems. An example CoffeeScript code for a simple web-based chat application using Vortex Web is also provided to demonstrate its capabilities.
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The real value of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industrial Internet (I2) are ubiquitous information availability and consequently the decisions that can be made from it. If we look at the technology landscape, there is not a single platform that provides efficient, timely and ubiquitous data sharing across network-connected devices. Well, there was not until now!
PrismTech's Vortex is the first platform to enable ubiquitous, efficient and timely data sharing across mobile, embedded, desktop, cloud and web applications. This presntations will (1) introduce the elements that make up the Vortex platform and (2) describe its applicability and (3) get you started writing Vortex applications.
This presentation from PrismTech's Spectra SDR CTO, Dr Vince Kovarik, describes the current work being performed by the Wireless Innovation Forum’s Integrated Communications Systems Model (ICSM) project.
This presentation from PrismTech's Spectra SDR CTO, Dr Vince Kovarik, presents independent research in the area of hybrid programming languages incorporating traditional object-oriented capabilities integrated with knowledge representation and reasoning enabling the ability for a communications system to introspect its physical and logical structure. The long-term vision of this work is to provide the ability to represent relationships and events as first-class objects in the system thereby providing context and heuristic capabilities.
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In advance of the availability of the next generation of Core Frameworks that will emerge, this presentation shos how SCA 4.0 middleware can be seamlessly used within existing SCA systems for backwards compatibility while offering benefits to new applications and an efficient migration path to full SCA 4.0 compliance.
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• The ability to generate Software Communications Architecture (SCA) compliant ANSI C code, which facilitates the development of 'C' language components for deployment on either general purpose processors (GPPs) or digital signal processors (DSPs),
• Increased coverage of Spectra CX's compliance-testing features - for both SCA 2.2.2 waveform applications and SCA 2.2.2 Operating Environments (OEs),
• The generation of compliance reports for SCA components,
• Support for 64-bit host operating systems.
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Testing early on and throughout the development cycle reduces the risks that affect time to market, cost and software quality. By exercising components (application components, devices and services) at the beginning of the development cycle in a runtime environment, and by continuing to test, as components are refined, developers can be assured of continuous Software Communications Architecture (SCA) compliance up to development cycle completion. Spectra CX SCA Test can be used to test the software aspects that have been hand written, generated automatically using a Spectra CX Code Generator, or generated automatically using a 3rd party tool. Developers benefit from fully automated testing of all aspects of the SCA specified interfaces for each component.
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SCA To Date and Motivation for Change. These slides will discuss why the JTRS Program Executive Office (JPEO) is aggressively procuring Software Defined Radio (SDR) consortium and industry assistance to spearhead a high impact evolution of the Software Communications Architecture (SCA) intended to deliver better radio performance along with a smaller footprint for waveforms and radio software. The webcast audience will learn about innovative SCA change proposal details and identified opportunities for near term radio performance impact with rapid market availability of these new capabilities via highly motivated COTS SDR software and development tool vendors.
A presentation introducing Spectra\'s product family, competitive advantage, CX V3.2\'s solutions, features & benefits, availability, price, collateral & demonstrating its uses.
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In the past few years we have experienced an amazing proliferation of mobile and embedded platforms. Contemporary developers are increasingly being faced with the challenge of writing applications that can run on desktop, mobile (e.g. Android and iOS), and on low-cost embedded platforms (e.g. Raspberry-Pi and Beaglebone). This is causing a rejuvenated interest in the Java platform as a means to achieve the holy grail of write-once and run-everywhere. With the availability of Java environments supporting almost any kind of device in several different form factors, the missing element of the picture is an effective way of enabling communication between them.
Vortex Café is a pure Java implementation of the OMG Data Distribution Service (DDS) that enables seamless, efficient and timely data sharing across multi-core machines, mobile and embedded devices.
This presentation will (1) introduce the main abstractions provided by Vortex Café, (2) provide an overview of its architecture and explain how it exploits Staged Event Driven Architectures to optimize its runtime behavior depending on the target hardware, (3) provide an overview of the typical performance delivered by Vortex Café, and (4) get you started developing distributed Java and Scala applications with Vortex Café.
This document provides an overview of Vortex Web, a JavaScript API that allows HTML5/JavaScript applications to communicate in real-time using the Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard. It describes the client-side and server-side architecture of Vortex Web, how it takes advantage of HTML5 features like WebSockets, and how Vortex Web can be deployed both with traditional DDS systems and cloud-based Vortex Cloud systems. An example CoffeeScript code for a simple web-based chat application using Vortex Web is also provided to demonstrate its capabilities.
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The real value of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industrial Internet (I2) are ubiquitous information availability and consequently the decisions that can be made from it. If we look at the technology landscape, there is not a single platform that provides efficient, timely and ubiquitous data sharing across network-connected devices. Well, there was not until now!
PrismTech's Vortex is the first platform to enable ubiquitous, efficient and timely data sharing across mobile, embedded, desktop, cloud and web applications. This presntations will (1) introduce the elements that make up the Vortex platform and (2) describe its applicability and (3) get you started writing Vortex applications.
This presentation from PrismTech's Spectra SDR CTO, Dr Vince Kovarik, describes the current work being performed by the Wireless Innovation Forum’s Integrated Communications Systems Model (ICSM) project.
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The Software Communications Architecture (SCA) 4.0 is a major revision of the standard and is designed to be more scalable, lightweight, and flexible than the current SCA 2.2.2 specification. It is compatible with radio sizes ranging from small, single channel radios to prime-power, multi-channel sets. Importantly the new SCA 4.0 CORBA PSM extends the reach of the standard into DSP and FPGA processing environments more effectively.
In advance of the availability of the next generation of Core Frameworks that will emerge, this presentation shos how SCA 4.0 middleware can be seamlessly used within existing SCA systems for backwards compatibility while offering benefits to new applications and an efficient migration path to full SCA 4.0 compliance.
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This document introduces Spectra CX Product Line Management, a tool that uses model-driven development to manage variations in software defined radio (SDR) product families. It allows architects to model a product line architecture using variation points, which identify elements that can vary. Product configurations can then be generated from these models to easily create product variants. The tool demonstrates how to model variation points, generate configuration models, and produce customized product models for specific configurations like an X86 radio. It aims to help developers manage multiple product variants using a single product line model.
The Spectra DTP4700H is a ruggedized, high performance and affordable SCA development and test platform. It provides a pre-packaged Linux-based solution with OMAP digital baseband hardware, RF transceiver covering 400MHz to 4GHz, SCA 2.2.2 compliant software stack, demonstration waveform, and documentation. The Spectra DTP4700H is designed to allow users to easily start developing and testing SCA waveforms and applications.
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Spectra CX v3.4 adds significant new functionality that further boosts the productivity of SDR application and platform developers. In particular,
• The ability to generate Software Communications Architecture (SCA) compliant ANSI C code, which facilitates the development of 'C' language components for deployment on either general purpose processors (GPPs) or digital signal processors (DSPs),
• Increased coverage of Spectra CX's compliance-testing features - for both SCA 2.2.2 waveform applications and SCA 2.2.2 Operating Environments (OEs),
• The generation of compliance reports for SCA components,
• Support for 64-bit host operating systems.
Further information about Spectra CX v3.4 is available at: http://www.prismtech.com/spectra/products/spectra-cx
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These slides focus on the latest addition to PrismTech’s Spectra DTP family of advanced Software Communications Architecture (SCA) compliant and Radio Frequency (FR) capable Software Defined Radio (SDR) and test platforms. Spectra DTP4700 is based on the latest digital processing subsystem from Mistral and contains a high performance Texas Instruments AM/DM37x Sitara processor with GPP and DSP functionality on the same chip. When combined with DataSoft’s Monsoon Transceiver, DTP4700 provides a fully-fieldable radio with a base level of RF performance between 400 MHz and 4 GHz. For ease of development DTP4700 provides an integrated SCA Operating Environment containing an optimised Linux operating system, SCA Core Framework (CF), CORBA middleware, SCA platform and SCA sample waveform. Spectra DTP4700 is fully supported by PrismTech’s market leading Spectra CX tool for SCA waveform modeling, code generation and compliance validation. Spectra DTP4700 is an affordable, yet functionally advanced desktop system targeted at waveform and application development/test teams in major radio OEMs and their end customers, advanced wireless communications (government and defense) laboratories conducting research in fields such as cognitive radio, electronic warfare, and secure SDR waveforms, internal research and development (IR&D) projects and independent SCA developers creating software IP for the SDR market. For further information please visit http://www.prismtech.com/spectra/products
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Various approaches have been developed for integrating FPGA and GPP application components in a Software Communications Architecture (SCA) radio. Most of these have been less than successful, primarily due to overhead, latency and/or maintainability issues. Spectra IP Core is a second-generation solution to FPGA-GPP component integration that provides a low-latency, standards-based CORBA protocol with excellent performance metrics and the robustness of a proven, deployed solution. Building on PrismTech’s ICO v1, Spectra IP Core is a second-generation COTS product. This webcast will introduce the Spectra IP Core architecture, its main functions and its performance benchmarks. Although FPGA ‘middleware’ is a new concept for many FPGA developers, the capabilities provided by Spectra IP Core not only provide valuable integration ‘hooks’, but also help support a highly-efficient, proven radio component that simplifies the integration of high-level software development with digital design and accelerates the development of SCA-compliant FPGA components for SCA radios. These slides will be of great interest and value to project managers, systems engineers and architects as well as software and digital engineers involved in designing, building and testing SCA-compliant SDRs.
Testing early on and throughout the development cycle reduces the risks that affect time to market, cost and software quality. By exercising components (application components, devices and services) at the beginning of the development cycle in a runtime environment, and by continuing to test, as components are refined, developers can be assured of continuous Software Communications Architecture (SCA) compliance up to development cycle completion. Spectra CX SCA Test can be used to test the software aspects that have been hand written, generated automatically using a Spectra CX Code Generator, or generated automatically using a 3rd party tool. Developers benefit from fully automated testing of all aspects of the SCA specified interfaces for each component.
These slides will demonstrate the steps for unit testing the standard SCA interfaces of an SCA component with Spectra CX SCA Test. Topics will include: introduction to the Spectra CX unit testing framework; generation of standard unit tests; execution of unit tests on-host and on-target; and creating custom test cases.
SCA To Date and Motivation for Change. These slides will discuss why the JTRS Program Executive Office (JPEO) is aggressively procuring Software Defined Radio (SDR) consortium and industry assistance to spearhead a high impact evolution of the Software Communications Architecture (SCA) intended to deliver better radio performance along with a smaller footprint for waveforms and radio software. The webcast audience will learn about innovative SCA change proposal details and identified opportunities for near term radio performance impact with rapid market availability of these new capabilities via highly motivated COTS SDR software and development tool vendors.
A presentation introducing Spectra\'s product family, competitive advantage, CX V3.2\'s solutions, features & benefits, availability, price, collateral & demonstrating its uses.
The document discusses Spectra Operating Environment (OE), an SCA compliant radio development environment. It provides an overview of SCA OE requirements including supporting an Application Environment Profile, CORBA middleware, and SCA Core Framework. It outlines the benefits of using a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) OE like Spectra OE over custom development. Spectra OE is highlighted as a standards-based, high performance, portable COTS solution for SCA application deployment across processor types.
Spectra DTP4500 - A Closer Look
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A presentation introducing Spectras product family, competitive advantage and the users, configuration, spceification, software interfaces, tools & waveforms of Spectra DTP4500.
3. SCA 4.0 Approach 3
The SCA 4.0 specification has been
developed following the Model Driven
Architecture (MDA) approach
The specification has been developed as a
Platform Independent Model (PIM)
Appendices provide Platform Specific
Model (PSM) extensions for specific
technologies, e.g. CORBA
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4. Model Driven Architecture Views 4
Functional Architectural Design Implementation
SCA 2.2
SCA 2.2.1
SCA 2.2.2
SCA 4.0 SCA 4.0 Appendices Target System
CIM – Computationally Independent Model
PIM – Platform Independent Model
PSM – Platform Specific Model
PSI – Platform Specific Implementation
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16. Appendix E – Platform Specification Model 16
E Transports and Technologies
E.1 – Common Object Request Broker
Architecture (CORBA)
Two profiles planned.
Full – Provides features for general platforms
and applications
Lightweight – Provides minimal features for
highly constrained resources
E.2 – C++
E.3 – OMG Interface Definition Language
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17. Appendix F – Units of Functionality 17
Appendix F identifies specific sets and
subsets of functionality across multiple
areas.
The selection or omission of a given set of
functionality has impacts on which
interfaces are or should be supported.
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Testing architecture must perform Specific test implementation must
validation of compliance with be driven by technologies
baseline specification. specified in appendices.
SCA 4.0 SCA 4.0 Appendices Target System
Certification Certified
Specification System
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26. Spectra SDR – Tools and Infrastructure 26
Development Target
Radio Application Radio Application
(Waveform) (Waveform)
SCA Interface SCA Interface
Spectra Core Framework
Spectra CX:
Model-Based
Development Tool Spectra Common Data Bus (CDB)
TCP/IP v4/v6
IBM RSA SCA 2.2.2 and POSIX AEP
Workbench RTOS / Linux
Windows / Linux / Unix ASP BSP
Hardware (GPP, DSP, FPGA) Hardware (GPP, DSP, FPGA)
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27. Summary 27
SCA 4.0 provides a significant opportunity for
optimizing SCA implementations optimized for
specific deployment environments.
This flexibility presents significant test, validation
and certification challenges.
Reference implementations will diverge based
on selected units of functionality across radio
systems.
Several initiatives and R&D efforts to provide
initial proof of concept demonstrations of the
viability of SCA 4.0
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28. For Information on Products and Services: 28
E-mail:
info@prismtech.com
vince.kovarik@prismtech.com
www:
www.prismtech.com/spectra
Your PrismTech account manager
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