Radiation Hardened End-to-End Communication Links

Welkin Sciences proposes to develop two commercial products that will provide MDA’s analysts and communication system contractors with a greatly improved capability to develop scintillation-hardened communication links: the CommLink code (which will be a major upgrade to the COMLNK code); and the CommLink Defined Transceiver or CDT (a major upgrade to the COMLNK Hardware Platform or CHP). These new products will facilitate four aspects of the development process for scintillation-hardened links: the detailed analysis (including fading channel performance prediction) of multiple link design candidates and variants; coding and debugging of real-time transceiver software and firmware prior to detailed hardware design; rapid prototyping of the most promising designs; and hardware-in-the-loop testing to verify the predicted performance of a prototyped design(s) before expensive build commitments.