To extend its software radio solution to other programmable semiconductor devices, RadioScape has adopted Analog Devices’ Blackfin BF52x series of processors. Having experienced success in developing a broad range of software, module and subsystem solutions for the DAB digital radio markets based on Texas Instruments DSPs, the company is now expanding its proven stacks and applications for DAB, DMB, DAB-IP, DRM, FM and AM on other platforms.

John Hall, RadioScape's CEO, said " By extending our support for new platforms we will be able to satisfy a broader range of radio and mobile TV applications."

In conjunction with ADI, RadioScape has announced that it has developed a highly integrated software implementation of its DAB baseband decoder and audio video decoder for this new platform to address the emerging mobile TV market.  This work paves the way to include the ADI platform across the range of RadioScape's digital radio solutions in the future, said the maker.

According to Andrew Dewhurst, RadioScape's product manager for receiver solutions, "The radio of the future will increasingly be part of a multi-standard, multi-media device. The challenges of supporting such broad functionality as well as the integration of the radio with other device features is significantly reduced through the SDR approach. We now have a highly portable code base and this gives us the opportunity to engage with other semiconductor partners as we develop our roadmap. This enables us to increasingly focus our resources on new applications and solutions for system level integration of digital radio."

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