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Waveform Developer's Guide for the Integrated Power, Avionics, and Software (iPAS) Space Telecommunications Radio System (STRS) RadioThe Space Telecommunications Radio System (STRS) provides a common, consistent framework for software defined radios (SDRs) to abstract the application software from the radio platform hardware. The STRS standard aims to reduce the cost and risk of using complex, configurable and reprogrammable radio systems across NASA missions. To promote the use of the STRS architecture for future NASA advanced exploration missions, NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) developed an STRS-compliant SDR on a radio platform used by the Advance Exploration System program at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in their Integrated Power, Avionics, and Software (iPAS) laboratory. The iPAS STRS Radio was implemented on the Reconfigurable, Intelligently-Adaptive Communication System (RIACS) platform, currently being used for radio development at JSC. The platform consists of a Xilinx(Trademark) ML605 Virtex(Trademark)-6 FPGA board, an Analog Devices FMCOMMS1-EBZ RF transceiver board, and an Embedded PC (Axiomtek(Trademark) eBox 620-110-FL) running the Ubuntu 12.4 operating system. The result of this development is a very low cost STRS compliant platform that can be used for waveform developments for multiple applications. The purpose of this document is to describe how to develop a new waveform using the RIACS platform and the Very High Speed Integrated Circuits (VHSIC) Hardware Description Language (VHDL) FPGA wrapper code and the STRS implementation on the Axiomtek processor.
Document ID
20170004842
Acquisition Source
Glenn Research Center
Document Type
Technical Memorandum (TM)
Authors
Shalkhauser, Mary Jo W. (NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH United States)
Roche, Rigoberto (NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH United States)
Date Acquired
June 1, 2017
Publication Date
May 1, 2017
Subject Category
Communications And Radar
Report/Patent Number
NASA/TM-2017-219476
E-19348
GRC-E-DAA-TN37609
Report Number: NASA/TM-2017-219476
Report Number: E-19348
Report Number: GRC-E-DAA-TN37609
Funding Number(s)
WBS: WBS 089407.01.22
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
Keywords
Software Defined Radio
Modulation
Developer
Waveform
STRS
Software
Flight Computer
Bit Error Rate
Radio Electionics

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