I I Small cellular base stations for homeland security applications Small cellular base-stations for a Cambridge homeland security applications Consultants .. . Reference Design Cambridge Consultants' SidewinderTM hardware reference L design provides the platform to develop a "pocket-sized" cellular base station Flexible radio supports GSM quad-band and 3G band-l Picochip PC312 SoC provides powerful DSP processing for switching between 2G and 3G PHY operation o 3G-WCDMA PHY software reference available o 2G-GSM PHY software reference available from Cambridge Consultants (Centaur) Embedded Linux environment capable of running protocol stack and applications W" Licensable reference design for use as the basis of new F product developments Physically small with low power consumption makes it suitable for battery-backedapplications PICOCL ..P' Homeland security - wireless Introducing Sidewinder Customisation applications Cambridge Consultants' Sidewinder Sidewinder provides base-station The mobile phone has been a great hardware reference design provides capability in its standard form. tool for bringing all of us closer- together for business and social purposes. However, those who oppose our way of life also use the same mobile technology to stay hidden whilst working against our society. The challenge in homeland security is to find the source of this continually evolving threat amongst ordinary, innocent civilians. Cambridge Consultants has created a reference design which enables development of "pocket-sized" wireless equipment for use by government and police. Possible uses in homeland security include the following applications: IMSI catcher a complete and low-cost- manufacturable base-station hardware design, suitable for small- cell 2G and 3G operation. Designed for use as a small cellular base- station (femtocell), Sidewinder can also be adapted to make similar products for use in surveillance. Radio b GSM 850,900,1800,1900 channels b 3G band-l (2.1GHz) Dimensions 92mm X 80mm Power 6W (maximum) TX Power +5dBm RX Sens. Better -104dBm (for GSM) Portable base-station for secure Connectors Ethemet 100BT Debug - JTAG, UART user group communications SMA antenna connector Network traffic monitor for legal E-BOM intercept b Under $200 (estimated) Alternatively, Cambridge Consultants can provide hardware design customization services to adapt the design for alternative specifications, such as 3G network monitoring, multi-band support, increased transmit power, receiver diversity or multiple channel support (multi-transceiversupport). Licensees of the reference design receive all design information, such that they can also make their own modifications to extend the capability of the hardware to meet their specific needs.
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I I Small cellular base stations for homeland security applications
Small cellular base-stations for a Cambridge homeland security applications Consultants
L design provides the platform to develop a "pocket-sized" cellular base station
Flexible radio supports GSM quad-band and 3G band-l
Picochip PC312 SoC provides powerful DSP processing for switching between 2G and 3G PHY operation
o 3G-WCDMA PHY software reference available
o 2G-GSM PHY software reference available from Cambridge Consultants (Centaur)
Embedded Linux environment capable of running protocol stack and applications
W" Licensable reference design for use as the basis of new
F product developments Physically small with low power consumption makes it suitable for battery-backed applications
PICOCL ..P' Homeland security - wireless Introducing Sidewinder Customisation applications Cambridge Consultants' Sidewinder Sidewinder provides base-station The mobile phone has been a great hardware reference design provides capability in its standard form. tool for bringing all of us closer- together for business and social purposes. However, those who oppose our way of life also use the same mobile technology to stay hidden whilst working against our society. The challenge in homeland security is to find the source of this continually evolving threat amongst ordinary, innocent civilians.
Cambridge Consultants has created a reference design which enables development of "pocket-sized" wireless equipment for use by government and police. Possible uses in homeland security include the following applications:
IMSI catcher
a complete and low-cost- manufacturable base-station hardware design, suitable for small- cell 2G and 3G operation. Designed for use as a small cellular base- station (femtocell), Sidewinder can also be adapted to make similar products for use in surveillance.
Radio b GSM 850,900,1800,1900 channels b 3G band-l (2.1GHz)
Alternatively, Cambridge Consultants can provide hardware design customization services to adapt the design for alternative specifications, such as 3G network monitoring, multi-band support, increased transmit power, receiver diversity or multiple channel support (multi-transceiver support).
Licensees of the reference design receive all design information, such that they can also make their own modifications to extend the capability of the hardware to meet their specific needs.
Powerful DSP Flexible radio subsystem Onboard Linux environment
The Picochip PC31 2 SoC includes a sophisticated ARM1 1 applications processor sub-system running at 400MHz. This processor provides a Linux environment under which higher stack layers and application software can run.
Sidewinder is based upon Picochip's PC312 Femtocell Baseband SOC. The PicoArray DSP processor included in the baseband device provides industry leading DSP performance at low power consumption.
Sidewinder makes use of the class- leading Flexible radio device from Lime Microsystems. This radio is intrinsically highly flexible, and yet provides excellent performance. It is able to operate at any frequency between 375MHz and 4GHz, and supports programmable channel bandwidths between 200kHz and 28MHz.
Duplex filtering, required to prevent the transmitter from "deafening" the receiver, is included. Sidewinder has been designed to support a single set of band filters in any one build, but the desired band of operation can be selected at build time through the use of appropriate filter components. All necessary channel filtering options required to meet blocking requirements for both GSM and WCDMA operation are included within the base design and do not need modification when selecting band or GSM or WCDMA standard.
ado- -- I Sidewinder enables the use of stacks from either the licensee, or third parties. The PC31 2 DSP has optimized hard
functions to support the WCDMA PHY and Lower-MAC reference software available directly from Picochip.
Onboard frequency reference Flexible engagement
Sidewinder has an on-board frequency reference. This can be accurately controlled by one of the following techniques:
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The PC31 2 has sufficient soft programmable DSP resources to run a sophisticated 2.75G PHY. Cambridge Consultants' Centaur software is the only GSM, GPRS and EDGE PHY reference available for Picochip hardware.
a network service, such as IEEE1588,
network listen of neighbour cells
a GPS PPS signal Sidewinder baseband can be adapted to support software-switch from 2G-GSM to 3G-WCDMA operation.
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Monitoring of the background network topology is achieved with a downlink sniffer function which is a standard part of the Centaur PHY software, and can be added to a custom developed 3G physical layer.
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