Changes between Version 21 and Version 22 of PHAL-OE_Concept

Timestamp:

11/13/08 13:27:16 (16 years ago)

Author:

antoni (IP: 147.83.118.227)

Comment:

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PHAL-OE_Concept

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 First and basic step to advance in the process of defining a common framework to develop and deploy software radio applications is to eliminate platform (hardware and support software) dependencies. 
-Next step is making simpler to specify radio applica-tions, worrying only about algorithm description.  
+Next step is making simpler to specify radio applications, worrying only about algorithm description.  
 
-In this context, the possibility to add as much processing resources as required for a given application, making not necessary to change it at all, is of must importance. The possibility of (re)configuring the radio terminal and/or the base station built by using different hardware from different providers requires the capability of adding (and removing) plug-and-play hardware to (from) the system. Different hardware topologies, configurations and, above all, as-signed tasks impose restrictions on the integration of different hardware to construct software radio platforms. Due to these and the previously stated objectives, a multi-platform software abstraction layer and execution environment, PHAL-OE (Platform-Hardware Abstraction Layer Operating Environment), has been defined and designed to provide such features.
+In this context, the possibility to add as much processing resources as required for a given application, making not necessary to change it at all, is of must importance. The possibility of (re)configuring the radio terminal and/or the base station built by using different hardware from different providers requires the capability of adding (and removing) plug-and-play hardware to (from) the system. Different hardware topologies, configurations and, above all, assigned tasks impose restrictions on the integration of different hardware to construct software radio platforms. Due to these and the previously stated objectives, a multi-platform software abstraction layer and execution environment, PHAL-OE (Platform-Hardware Abstraction Layer Operating Environment), has been defined and designed to provide such features.
 
 The context where the radio applications will be executed influences strongly the system performance. Radio appliactions are built by signal processing blocks most of them adquiring input signals and delivering output signals. Thus, the first step would be as simple as provide the mechanism to the application to deal with these input/output signals. These entities can be software or hardware entities, but in any case, abstracted from real implementation. The particularity of such interfaces between several entities is that is unknown at development time, and only during execution time all the entities will be unified and the entire application will be build.