A personal and inter-vehicle cordless communications system
W. Jacklin, S. Collar, S. Stratmoen, B. Fitzpatrick, Jesse Stone · 1999
The Northrop Grumman cordless communications system (CCS) is a state-of-the-art, wireless communications system targeted for tomorrow's armored battlefield. Through a single, hand-held or body-mounted personal communications unit (PCU), the CCS provides the soldier with access to a digital, full-duplex wireless intercom, as well as the capability to simultaneously communicate over a point-to-point digital data link. In addition, through the use of a single universal adapter interface (UAI), the soldier can remotely access the existing analog or digital wired vehicle intercom and the attached wide area tactical radios. Moreover, using a novel protocol and system architecture, the CCS is able to reconfigure itself automatically and seamlessly into various centralized and distributed network configurations as the operational scenario changes. At the core of the CCS is a 20 MIPS, fixed-point digital signal processor, which implements the protocol, control and signal processing algorithms required to achieve robust personal and inter-vehicle communications.