Public API

To support writing your own signal processing algorithms for RVP10, the RVP10 software architecture enables you to statically link plug-in modules to the running code. The following table shows how the API supports adding software extensions to the RVP10 framework to modify some signal processing stages.

API support for modifying signal processing

Processing stage	API support
Tx/Rx waveform synthesis and matched filter generation	Define transmit waveforms from pulse-to-pulse, along with the corresponding FIR coefficients that extract (I,Q) from the Tx waveform. Allows users to experiment with arbitrary waveforms for pulse compression and frequency agility.
Time series and spectra processing from (I,Q)	Modify default time series and spectra data, for example, to perform averaging or windowing in a different way.
Parameter generation from (I,Q)	Redefine how standard parameters (dBZ, Velocity, Width, PHIDP, and so on) are computed from the incoming (I,Q) time series. Create new parameter types.

The standard scientific algorithms are not public. Many RVP10 library routines are also documented and can be called by user code, but the source to these routines is not generally released. Development tools must be purchased separately.