VITA-49 Radio Transport Protocol
VITA-49 Radio Transport Protocol
The section describes the WSA5000's VRT Information Class as per the "VITA Radio
Transport (VRT) Draft Standard" Specification VITA-49.0 – 2007 Draft 0.21.
Purpose
Convey an arbitrary 100MHz of IF data and associated information from the WSA5000 to
another equipment using an industrial standard.
WSA5000's VRT Overview
ThinkRF's VRT supports four different packet streams of information defined and
organized as shown in
. The streams of packets are sent when the
data capture is started. The context packets carry the WSA5000 settings information
associated with the immediate following IF data packets.
Figure 9:
Connectivity and 4 Different Packet Streams Supported by WSA5000
Table 7
: The Categories of VRT Packet Streams Supported by ThinkRF's WSA5000
Contents
Standard Formats
Custom Formats
Context
IF Context Packet Stream
conveys metadata concerning IF Data
Packet Stream and the settings
- Digitizer Context Packet Class Stream
- Receiver Context Packet Class Stream
Extension Context Packet Stream
conveys additional Context concerning IF
or Extension Data Packet Stream
- Extension Context Packet Class Stream
Data
IF Data Packet Stream
conveys discrete time sampled signal
data
- IF Data Packet Class Stream
Extension Data Packet Stream
conveys any signal or data derived from a
signal
- Currently not used
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RECEIVER
DIGITIZER
IF Data Stream
Extension Context Stream
Digitizer Context Stream
Receiver Context Stream
Reference Point