Hardware Support

Support for heterogeneous sensor hardware is a central design component of SCOS Sensor. Different signal analyzers and networked sensor components interface with SCOS Sensor through SCOS plugins. This page catalogs the current stock of plugins and the hardware for which they provide SCOS compatibility.

Instructions for getting started using either Tektronix® or Ettus signal analyzers are provided in Tutorial 2.

Signal Analyzers

These plugins implement signal analyzer interfaces which expose the functionality of a given signal analyzer to SCOS Sensor. The repositories containing these plugins may also provide other files, such as Docker base images, which are required to use the supported hardware. Additional drivers may be required which are not contained within these repositories for licensing reasons. The following plugins exist to provide support for signal analyzers:

SCOS Plugin	Supports Devices	Notes
scos-keysight	Keysight N6841A	Outdated, not currently maintained
scos-tekrsa	Tektronix RSA3xx, RSA5xx, and RSA6xx	Requires additional drivers from Tektronix
scos-usrp	Ettus Research USRP Bus Series (B2xx)

Preselectors

NTIA/ITS has created a general software API to control RF preselectors, regardless of their components and control mechanisms. Read more about the preselector API and the supported components in the NTIA/Preselector repository.