Description
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking a vendor to provide a turnkey, highly portable, asymmetrical dual-node computing and radio system designed for Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) experimentation. The system will consist of one Transmit/Protocol Server (C1), one ISAC Sensor Server (C2), and two software-defined radios (R1). The system will be used to emulate 5G/6G communication nodes and evaluate various radar topologies. The vendor will be responsible for providing all components, integration, and cabling, as well as ensuring that the system meets the specified requirements.
Some key features of the system include:
• A mobile rack enclosure with a height not exceeding 4 feet
• Two high-performance software-defined radios with a native frequency tuning range of 10 MHz to 20 GHz
• A central timing hub with a GPS-disciplined oscillator to provide a highly stable timing reference
• A phase-stable LO sharing interconnect to guarantee strict phase coherency between the two SDRs
• High-speed data shunting to non-volatile storage for offline post-processing
• A high-performance GPU for hardware acceleration, machine learning, and offline ISAC post-processing