Red Wire Technologies

Red Wire Technologies (RWT), a small woman-owned business located in Knoxville, Tennessee, specializes in producing high-performance embedded SDR solutions. We are a complete custom engineering company, specializing in software defined radio, wireless communications, digital signal processing, FPGA programming, and embedded Linux development.

RWT is proficient at working with customers to meet specific needs by modifying our current products, performing custom software development, or creating new hardware designs as required. Our team's expertise covers the entire R&D process chain from concept to finished product. RWT utilizes a unique modular design philosophy for most of the hardware we develop, allowing for rapid reuse of existing designs in new development.

All RWT products are designed, engineered, and assembled in the USA. All of our enclosures and PCBs are fabricated and assembled in America using a combination of domestic and foreign parts, with foreign components used only when no domestic substitute is available.

This Wiki contains user documentation and more detailed information about the products designed and sold.

RWT currently has one commercially available product, the Oxygen SDR. This radio is provided with basic support through the wiki and mailing lists. RWT has several additional products in late Beta testing. Please contact us at sales@redwiretechnologies.us for more information.

The engineers at RWT began our work in SDR during previous careers as consumers of commercial SDR hardware, focusing mainly on signal processing algorithm and software development. Dissatisfied with the low performance, quality, and fragility of available hardware, we began developing our own embedded field deployable systems. After building several successful custom SDRs for a diversity of customers, we founded Red Wire Technologies to address the flaws in commercial SDR hardware.

We believe that a truly successful fieldable SDR should be:

1. Fully Embedded – The radio must be self contained. No user wants to lug around a laptop or separate single board computer with cables to make it work after the initial software development is complete.
2. Rugged – Consumer grade hardware stuck together and put in a box will not cut it. A real fieldable SDR should be able to be made mil spec.
3. Open Source – No user wants to be locked into a propriety software architecture. An embedded SDR should be Linux based and be able to support GNU Radio for open development and code reuse.
4. Modular – It takes so much effort to develop a custom radio that many efforts are obsolete by the time they are finished. By making a modular radio, subcomponents can be redesigned or upgraded over time with significantly reduced time and cost.