SBIR-STTR Award

Fast Fit Technologies, LLC. proposes to research and show that a software based "all Digital-IF (Intermediate Frequency) wireless communications modem" using Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) server technology with built-in hardware acceleration card can be produced. The resulting research will show that given the state of technology, both currently available today and in the next calendar year, a multi-hundred mega-symbol (Msps) "all Digital IF" modem can be produced without the need for any custom hardware. The resulting modem will build on the work done for the ANSI/TIA-5041, FAST Digital IF Architecture and Open Standard Digital IF Interfaces standard, where input and output data will be a digitized modulated waveform encapsulated in VITA-49 frames over a digital fabric, such as 10G Ethernet. Fast Fit Technologies, LLC. proposes to use the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) standard 302 307 Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB); Second generation framing structure, channel coding and modulation systems for Broadcasting, Interactive Services, News Gathering and other broadband satellite applications (DVB-S2) as the waveform of choice, since this waveform is a standard and many COTS devices could be tested with the resulting work to prove the viability of the research; however, the resulting work may support any waveform standard to include

The research conducted on the all software digital COTS modem provides a new paradigm in the creation, manipulation, and processing of communication waveforms that removes the dependency on "purpose built" modem hardware for satellite, terrestrial, and airborne communications.The flexibility and adaptability of this new paradigm will result in an architecture to breath new life into old/antiquated hardware, provide the ability to move waveform processing into the cloud, and provide maximum flexibility, security, manageability, and scalability.