REDHAWK Release Notes - 3.0.0

The changes in REDHAWK 3.0.0 include:

• A major update to FrontEnd Interfaces.
• Support for running Components in Docker containers.
• Convert the Core Framework and the Assets to use C++ 14.
• Convert the Core Framework and the Assets to use Python 3.
• Convert the Core Framework to use Java 11.
• Bundle the Manual with the Core Framework.

New Features

The following features were added in REDHAWK 3.0.0:

Core Framework Features

• Redesigned FrontEnd Interfaces
  • Created a hierarchical model for FEI devices:
    • Created Parent and Child devices in the same project.
    • Allowed dynamic device creation.
    • Formalized antenna device construct.
    • New model resolved ambiguities in “hard-wired” device chains.
    • Formalized bank of tuner (BOT) devices.
    • Simplified receive digital channel (RDC) and transmit digital channel (TDC) devices.
    • Added support for transmit and receive arrays.
  • Improved device management:
    • Added generalized device status messages.
    • Added FEI specialized device status messages.
    • Improved support for transmit capabilities:
      • Added data queue management.
      • Established policies for transmit scheduling.
  • Provided the ability to trace connections forwards and backwards:
    • Make RFInfo, NavData, GPS, and RFSource bi-directional.
  • Expanded definition of hardware characteristics:
    • Added sigma to the PathDelay description.
    • Added ‘SettlingTime’ to the frontend_tuner_status structure required properties.
    • Expanded RFCapabilites to support sample rate and gain.
    • Express FRONTEND::transmitter_allocation::max_power in dBm instead of watts.
  • Improved data flow definition
    • Return a data structure on allocation with the appropriate data and control ports.
    • Listener allocations are supported but no longer required.
    • Documented that StreamQueue is supported in neither VITA49 nor SDDS.
    • Require source device id and allocation id as part of the keywords in Bulk IO data from FEI devices.
  • Support tooling
    • Added command-line tool to generated FEI-compliant device projects.
• Support for running Components in Docker containers, via local Docker or Kubernetes.
• Added C++ 14 language support, available via devtoolset-9.
  • Replaced Boost regex with standard library features from C++ 14.
• Added Python 3 language support.
• Added Java 11 language support.
• Removed the adminservice tool.

Documentation Features

• Bundled the Manual with the Core Framework.

Fixes

The following fixes were completed in REDHAWK 3.0.0:

Core Framework Fixes

• Support files sizes larger than 2^32-1 bytes for the CF::File interface.
• Generated code for the correct implementations when using an SPD file with more than one implementation.
• Resolved “Invalid template” error when using --service option to redhawk-codegen.

IDE Fixes

• Deprecated the IDE.
  • IDE supports runtime inspection but no longer supports FEI device generation.

Documentation Fixes

• Organized installation material into a single directory.