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Products

CRC offers two development environments for SDR technology:


Scari Software Suite

Offered under license agreement, this commercial product is CRC's high-performance software solution for your SDR development. It consists of three fully integrated modules:

  • A full-featured JTRS SCA Core Framework version 2.2.

  • A Component Development Library (CDL) implementing complex SCA requirements and allowing developers to concentrate on the development of applications or devices.

  • A Development Toolset that greatly simplifies the development of the SDR development lifecycle, be it to create SCA resources or devices, to assemble waveforms or platform nodes or to deploy and monitor applications.

Scari-Open

Developed under the sponsorship of the SDR Forum and the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), SCARI-Open is an open source implementation of the SCA written in Java. It is meant to serve mainly as a reference implementation for educational purposes to allow industry, universities and others to quickly enter the SDR technology.

From the initial SCAv2.1 implementation developed in 2001, a new release is currently being made available implementing the SCAv2.2. This new release is being certified by the JTRS TEchnology Lab (JTEL).

Two simple applications are also provided as examples. an audio effect waveform and an analog FM radio. A simple graphical user interface (GUI) is offered to deploy, configure and monitor the applications.