Using the ORBexpress from Objective Interface Systems, Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC) ported a complete APCO P25 waveform and Software Communications Architecture (SCA) radio system to a small-form-factor Android device in one day with zero source-code modifications. This realizes the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program initiative to facilitate the migration of software-defined radios (SDRs) to smaller, commercial form factors to enable faster time-to-market and substantially lower development costs. The P25 waveform is intended to improve interoperability among civilian public-safety agencies, and the CRC’s porting proves that public-safety radios can easily adapt to new operating parameters. Porting of the entire radio system including a full core framework and a P25 waveform application ran seamlessly while achieving long battery life on a dual-core ARM processor. Because ORBexpress is fully multi-threaded, CRC’s radio application and P25 waveform were able to take full advantage of both cores of the ARM processor without making a single change to the source code. For more details, visit http://www.ois.com/Products/communications-middleware.html.

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Objective Interface Systems Inc.

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