Software Defined Radio (SDR) Waveform Development Platform: Thunder™
The Thunder Software Defined Radio (SDR) Waveform Development Platform is the latest offering in the affordable, wide-band, high performance baseband and RF development and test platform family. Thunder is a full duplex COTS solution providing signal communications systems engineers and waveform developers with a fully functional, reconfigurable radio development platform. The direct conversion architecture provides continuous RF coverage over the full operating range. Thunder is now available in two versions: Thunder-L covers 30 MHz to 1600 MHz and Thunder-H covers 400 MHz to 4000 MHz. Both models have programmable RF bandwidths from 40 KHz to 40 MHz.
The configuration includes a full-duplex transceiver, a consolidated digital system with the TI OMAP 37x GPP/DSP processor + Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA, and a wide-band RF front end module, all operating in an open source Linux-based environment and enclosed in a 1U housing. All Thunder platforms feature a full software development environment with example waveforms, device drivers, debug probes and GigE functionality.