The Software Communications Architecture Reference Implementation (SCARI) is an implementation of the US Military's Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS)
Software Communications Architecture
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The Software Communications Architecture (SCA) is an open architecture
Open architecture is a type of computer architecture or software architecture intended to make adding, upgrading, and swapping components with other ...
(SCA) Core Framework. It was developed mainly by the Canadian
Communications Research Centre
The Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC; french: Centre de recherches sur les communications Canada) is a Canadian government scientific laboratory for research and development in wireless technologies, with a particular focus on the effic ...
(CRC) under contract by the Software Defined Radio Forum (now
Wireless Innovation Forum
Established in 1996, the Wireless Innovation Forum is a non-profit " mutual benefit corporation" dedicated to advocating for spectrum innovation and advancing radio technologies that support essential or critical communications worldwide. Forum me ...
).
The code is openly available, as well as the full documentation, which is extensively cross-referenced with the original SCA specification documents.
History
The initial release of SCARI was based on version 2.1 of the SCA (released in mid-2001). This first release was developed by the CRC in collaboration with
Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC).
In 2004 the SDR Forum contracted Canada's CRC one more time, in order to upgrade the SCARI to version 2.2 of the SCA (released in late 2001). This time CRC collaborated with three private
companies and two US Government entities:
*ISR Technologies (Canada),
*
Mercury Computer Systems (USA),
*
Rohde and Schwarz (Germany),
*
Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS), and
*the
NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC).
The CRC team was successful in getting the SCARI-Open tested for SCA compliance b
JTEL It was accomplished in only 6 days.
In November 2013, the CRC licensed its SCARI technologies to NordiaSoft, a spinoff from CRC.
NordiaSoft Press Release
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Different product versions
Three different SCARI products exist:
*SCARI-Open is written in the Java programming language and is freely publicly available
*SCARI++ is written in C++ and is not a free product
*SCARI-Hybrid includes the SCA CF written in Java and uses C++ for the signal processing (DSP) functionality
References
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External links
NordiaSoft's web site
CRC's website
Defense Research and Development Canada
Military radio systems