 A laboratory called the Gold Room at TRW in California created a software baseband analysis tool called Midas, which had its operation defined in software.The term "software radio" was coined in 1984 by a team at the Garland, Texas, Division of E-Systems Inc. (now Raytheon) to refer to a digital baseband receiver and published in their E-Team company newsletter.A 'Software Radio Proof-of-Concept' laboratory was developed by the E-Systems team that popularized Software Radio within various government agencies.