Software-Defined Radio technology and market outlook

Computing/HMI Serial I/O
COM Express:
The Advantage of Custom. The Convenience of COTS.
COM Express modules and Sealevel custom carrier
boards provide the advantages of custom solutions with
the conveniences of COTS. Sealevel can include common
I/O features such as serial, analog and digital I/O, all of
which are designed to the exact electrical and mechanical
requirements for your specific application.
Sealevel COM Express
designs offer:
> Scalability for easy
upgrade
> Application specific
I/O
> Flexible mechanical
configuration
> Vibration resistance
> Extended operating
temperature
> Long-term availability
> Superior life cycle
management
Take advantage of Sealevel’s
engineering expertise and let
us help create a custom design
to fit your application.
project to explore possible business
models that can be adopted by value
chain stakeholders introducing SDR into
their tactical communications programs.
By capturing trends from existing programs
and leveraging them into lessons
learned, the Wireless Innovation Forum’s
members will provide recommendations
that will reduce development cost and
time to deployment in future radiocentric
programs. While this report is
still a work in progress and has not yet
been balloted and approved for general
release, portions of the report have been
summarized here.
Market overview and drivers
The defense communications market is
driven by an increased diversity of
operations types: high-intensity conflicts,
police-type operations, peacekeeping
activities, disaster assistance
and recovery, and so on. Through these
To see the design capabilities, reliability improvements
and design control advantages that a Sealevel COM
Express carrier board design will bring to your next
product, visit our Design Center to watch a short video at
at sealevel.com/mes/com.
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