Software Communications Architecture (SCA)

Implementing the Software Communications Architecture (SCA), an open specification adopted internationally and evolved through the Wireless Innovation Forum (WInnF), a consortium of major radio manufacturers, academic, research laboratories and government authorities, the VIAVI products provide multiple advantages over other commercially available solutions for embedded systems:

• Operating environment agnostic, the VIAVI solution can be used to develop complex heterogeneous systems built with multiple processor types (GPP, DSP, FPGA, GPU, etc.), operating systems,  programming languages, and inter-process communications schemes,
• Enables distributed processing, with automatic software component discovery and deployment, an important feature to simplify the development of applications,
• Decouples hardware from software, greatly facilitating porting of applications from platform to platform, significantly reducing development time and cost,
• Enables reuse of software components from project to project, and allows for third party software insertion,
• Facilitate software updates and upgrades post manufacturing as the SCA infrastructure provides facilities to install/uninstall software applications after the physical devices have left the production floor.

VIAVI provides two SCA Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) for embedded systems: SCARI Software Suite for SCAv2.2.2 and the all new eCo Suite for SCAv4.1. VIAVI also provides a suite of generic SCA Device implementations that abstract physical hardware in tactical military radios.