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MIMO Empowered Radio Platform Solutions

Silvus Technologies launches the SC2000 family of radio platforms that guarantee connectivity in challenging propagation and mission environments. Leveraging 20 man years of effort in developing breakthrough MIMO (multi input multi output) capabilities, the company has developed the most advanced radio solution for high speed MANET – Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking and other communications in the extreme. Silvus has a dominant position as the premier provider of MIMO solutions for military applications. The company is the sole performer on the DARPA Mobile Networked MIMO (MNM) Phase 2/3 program.

The MIMO capability of the SC2000 expands the signaling domain by exploiting the spatial dependencies of radio wave propagation. The result is a wireless communications solution that is highly versatile and thrives in multipath rich, NLOS environments. Silvus' solution provides 300+ modes of operation covering data rates from 1.5 Mbps to 150 Mbps. This level of flexibility allows the system to adapt to a host of environments and deliver mission critical communications.

Silvus provides Ready-to-Implement Radio Platform solutions comprised of RF and baseband processing. The baseband portion of the platform is based on Xilinx FPGA implementations, which delivers the broadest range of configuration alternatives. These Starter Kits are complimented by Silvus Product Roadmap introductions, which focus on cost-affordable Deployable Platforms and continued Technology Innovation and Product flow.

For those customers that prefer to utilize their own internally-designed Radio platforms, Silvus provides a licensing model where the MIMO capable PHY can be "dropped-into" a Xilinx FPGA (Altera based drop in solutions are currently on our roadmap.) This "drop-in" solution provides the same level of versatility as Silvus' radio platform solution.

Figure 1. The Silvus SC2000 includes every functional block inside the dotted boundary. Note that the user can substitute a customized RF front end for the standard one and still maintain all radio functionality.

The SC2000, as shown above, is a complete radio module comprised of antenna, RF transceiver, a complete packet-based baseband processing engine, and a robust and intuitive API. It is ideal for networking applications, as the radio unit can be commanded by any MAC (medium access control) protocol. The user (or user program) can dictate radio parameters on a per-packet basis. With 300+ operating modes to choose from, the SC2000 platform is the only radio solution that puts per-packet reconfigurability in the hands of the user. Other radio platforms provide, at best, a hand full of modes.

Key areas that benefit from this technology are: the Digital Battlefield / Network Centric Warfare, C4ISR, CIED, Urban Warfare, Video Distribution and other demanding requirements.

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