QuickCore Low-Overhead SCA Core Framework for Small Form Factor, Low Power SDRs Navy SBIR FY2008.1 Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2008.1 Topic No.: N08-092 Topic Title: QuickCore Low-Overhead SCA Core Framework for Small Form Factor, Low Power SDRs Proposal No.: N081-092-0515 Firm: QuickFlex, Inc 8401 N. New Braunfels Suite 324 San Antonio, Texas 78209-4411 Contact: Steven Smith Phone: (210) 824-2348 Web Site: http://www.quickflex.com Abstract: The Software Communications Architecture (SCA) builds upon the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), a powerful middleware standard that enables the development of platform-independent, dynamically loadable object-oriented software components. However, the current SCA specification is not amenable to realization on highly resource constrained, small form factor, battery-powered platforms. We propose a low-overhead, high performance implementation of the SCA Core Framework, the set of interfaces used directly by SCA-compliant applications, that requires only slight restrictions on the full SCA functionality which are not likely to be relevant to the handheld and manpack JTRS platforms targeted for this variant of the core framework. Benefits: The proposed Software Communications Architecture (SCA) can be implemented in Software Defined Radios (SDRs) in personal-mobile packaging for sensitive DoD systems and can also be optimized to implement unencrypted non-DOD specific waveforms at minimal production cost. The lighter SCA helps reduce costs while providing higher performance and longer battery life benefitting the DoD, Homeland Security, and commercial markets. Return