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Software Communications Architecture Reference Implementation

The Software Communications Architecture Reference Implementation (SCARI) is an implementation of the US Military's Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Software Communications Architecture (SCA) Core Framework. It was developed mainly by the Canadian Communications Research Centre (CRC) under contract by the Software Defined Radio Forum (now Wireless Innovation Forum).[1]

The code is openly available, as well as the full documentation, which is extensively cross-referenced with the original SCA specification documents.

ISR Technologies (Canada),

(USA),

Mercury Computer Systems

(Germany),

Rohde and Schwarz

(JTRS), and

Joint Tactical Radio System

the (GRC).

NASA Glenn Research Center

The initial release of SCARI was based on version 2.1 of the SCA (released in mid-2001). This first release was developed by the CRC in collaboration with Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC).


In 2004 the SDR Forum contracted Canada's CRC one more time, in order to upgrade the SCARI to version 2.2 of the SCA (released in late 2001). This time CRC collaborated with three private companies and two US Government entities:


The CRC team was successful in getting the SCARI-Open tested for SCA compliance by JTEL. It was accomplished in only 6 days.[2]


In November 2013, the CRC licensed its SCARI technologies to NordiaSoft, a spinoff from CRC.[3]

SCARI-Open is written in the and is freely publicly available

Java programming language

SCARI++ is written in and is not a free product

C++

SCARI-Hybrid includes the SCA CF written in Java and uses C++ for the signal processing (DSP) functionality

Three different SCARI products exist:

NordiaSoft's web site

CRC's website

Defense Research and Development Canada