

NATwireless
The fast-growing number of applications available for wireless service is followed by a growing demand for wireless equipment which can be easily customized for a specific use case.
Today public and private broadband cellular networks are widely used by industries with remote and distributed facilities, research institutions, law enforcement agencies, defense forces, search and rescue organizations, and many more.
These organizations are specifying systems that work with commercial networks and equipment in order to
- protect and guard values, sites and lives by detecting and if necessary, counteracting against wireless threats
- create private networks which can be used with standard devices (i.e. smart phones, tablets) but provide features not delivered with standard base stations
- lower costs by using standard devices and existing infrastructure to access their private networks
In order to facilitate a maximum in flexibility and reliability paired with the ability to quickly react to a fast-changing wireless world, most of these appliances are based on software configurable equipment, also known as Software Defined Radio (SDR).
The concept of a central radio unit which with regards to frequency, bandwidth and signal strength can be entirely configured and controlled by software, ensures that the equipment can be easily tailored to exactly meet the requirements of the respective application.
The NATwireless technology is the solution for the growing demand of easily customizable wireless equipment. The combination of versatile configurable software and flexible adaptable hardware is crucial to meet the market’s rapidly evolving requirements, characterized by:
- Hardware modularity at unit (board) level
- Hardware scalability at system level
- Re-usable software core elements for different use cases
N.A.T.’s Software Defined Radio (SDR) solution is available both as COTS board level product, as well as turn-key system ready for deployment, e.g. as eNB or gNB for private networks.
The heart of the N.A.T. SDR units, NAT-AMC-ZYNQUP-SDR, is a professionally architected Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC), which can be easily integrated into any system hosting AMCs, allowing a flexible and application-specific scaling of the number of RF interfaces. In addition to further SDR units, other AMCs, i.e. special I/O etc. can be selected from the market and easily added through a standardized plug-and-play procedure.
Being a unified development platform in a ready-to-deploy format, the NAT-AMC-ZYNQUP-SDR combines best-in-class hardware with a tailored, comprehensive software package, enabling a broad range of wireless communication applications such as:
- Wide band receiver, i.e. for scanning and direction finding
- Wide band transmitter, i.e. for jamming
- Special test equipment
- Proof-of-concept setups including custom waveforms and beamforming
- Sensing techniques for cognitive radio
- Standard remote radio head (RRH) for phased antenna arrays
- base station for 4G and 5G private networks
To enable customers to immediately start their application design on a ready-to-deploy platform, N.A.T. has defined three turnkey systems available off-the-shelf, each of which allows you to add further NAT-AMC-ZYNQUP-SDR modules. All systems come with a comprehensive software support and documentation package including
- VIVADO® sample projects
- Linux board support package and host driver
- NAT-libraries for 8 channel phase sync operation and low latency streaming of IQ samples
- Getting started guide and user manual
- Hardware and software manuals
- Sample applications for GNUradio and Matlab
The platforms are professionally architected MicroTCA (MTCA) systems and include a complete system management also allowing remote management access. Depending on the system size, the backplane provides either a single or dual star topology which enables customer to choose between non-redundant and fully-redundant system layouts.
Products
Products associated with NATwireless

NATIVE-mini
- Form factor: 1U, compact size
- Embedded NAT-eMCH
- Embedded 150W Power Module
- 2 single mid- or full-size AMCs or 1 double mid- or full-size AMC

NATIVE-C1
- Form factor: 1U, 19”
- 1 single full-size NAT-MCH
- 1 single full-size NAT-PM
- 1 custom size NAT-JSM
- 6 single mid-size AMCs
- 40G Backplane

NATIVE-C3-PTM
- Form factor: 3U, 19”
- 2 single full-size NAT-MCH
- 4 single full-size NAT-PM
- 2 single full-size NAT-AMC-PTM
- 12 single mid-size AMCs or 6 double mid-size AMCs

NAT-SDR-FLEX-M
- 1x NATIVE-C1
- 1x NAT-MCH for system management and switching
- 1x NAT-PM-AC600
- 2x NAT-AMC-ZYNQUP-SDR8 incl. mini-coax-to-SMA adapter cable
- 1x PrAMC (Intel® Xeon® E3-1500 v5)
- 1x spare AMC slot for further system extension

NAT-AMC-ZYNQUP-FMC
- Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 (application processing unit)
- Dual-core ARM Cortex-R5 (real-time processing unit)
- Single High Pin Count FMC slot, VITA 57.1 compliant
- Access to FMC front panel interfaces
- Wide range of backplane interconnects

NAT-FMC-SDR4
- 2x Analog Devices ADRV9009 dual RF transmitters, receivers, and observation receivers
- 4x Rx/Tx channels with large bandwidth
- Synchronizable for creating large phased-arrays
- Multiboard synchronization
- VITA 57.1 FMC high pin count (HPC) connector

NAT-SDR-FLEX-L
- 1x NATIVE-C3-PTM
- 2x NAT-MCH for system management and switching
- 2x NAT-PM-AC600
- 2x NAT-AMC-ZYNQUP-SDR8 incl. mini-coax-to-SMA adapter cable
- 1x PrAMC (Intel® Xeon® E3-1500 v5)
- 7x spare AMC slots for further system extension + 2x spare slots each for PTMs and PMs

NAT-AMC-ZYNQUP-SDR
- Combination of NAT-AMC-ZYNQUP-FMC carrier and 1x or 2x
- NAT-FMC-SDR
- mezzanines
- Up to 4x Analog Devices ADRV9009 dual RF transmitters, receivers, and observation receivers
- Xilinx ZynqUP+ FPGA SoC with quad-core ARM Cortex-53 and dual-core Cortex-R5
- Various customizable memory options and numerous interfaces towards front panel and backplane
- Development platform in ready-to-deploy package with optional housing

NAT-SDR-FLEX-S
- 1x NATIVE-mini incl. 150WAC open frame PM and NAT-eMCH
- 1x NAT-AMC-ZYNQUP-SDR8 incl. mini-coax-to-SMA adapter cable
- 1x PrAMC (Intel® Xeon® E3-1500 v5)