System, method and apparatus for selection of hardware and software for optimal implementation of one or more functionality or algorithm

A system for determination of performance characteristics with respect to electronic hardware and user-selected test software adapted to execute non-transitory computer-readable program instructions on the hardware, the system comprising:

• a processor interconnected to a plurality of hardware devices under test, the processor accessing information related to the performance characteristics, wherein the performance characteristics include temperature rise due to device operation, power consumption, execution speed, and electromagnetic (EM) radiation emission;
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• a system process, operating on the processor, and responsive to local or remote communication from a user, the system process arranged to (a) access a database containing identification and parameter information with respect to each of the hardware devices under test and selected of the device related software, (b) transmit a menu to the user that contains criteria based upon the identification and the parameter information, the menu arranged so that the user can select a subset of the hardware devices under test based upon selection of the criteria input thereby, and the menu being organized to provide a series of selections in corresponding selection steps and is presented to the user such that each selection by the user provides consistent selection options in subsequent selection steps, whereby unavailable options are filtered therefrom, (c) identify one of the hardware devices based upon selection of the local user via the communication, (d) activate the hardware device, (e) operate a software process on the device, and (f) return at least one of the performance characteristics based upon the operation of the software process,
• wherein the communication provides a web page containing the menu displayed on a remote computer of the user, and wherein the test software is at least one a software defined radio (SDR), a software defined networking (SDN), a software defined power supply (SDP), software defined data storage, software defined electromechanical system and a predetermined software-defined hardware process (SDX).