Military DSP-FPGA Insights
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Boosting embedded DSP processing with open-source-based HPEC supercomputer performance
COTS-based HPEC processing in compact, rugged deployable subsystems promises to deliver supercomputing performance in SWaP-constrained and compute-intensive embedded military applications.
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SRIO reaches a crossroads in Intel-based DSP designs
PCIe-to-SRIO bridges leverage Intel processors for faster, smaller, and lower power DSP designs.
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Modular Open Systems Approach: A philosophy whose time has come?
Why are radar and image processing systems buying into the layered architecture the Open System Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model describes?
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Getting higher resolution analog signals into the digital domain
Why conventional CPU configurations cannot reach the level of processing performance and potential I/O bandwidth the latest FPGA iterations can.
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Message in a bottleneck: Time to double fabric bandwidth with Gen2 Serial RapidIO
Amid ongoing encouragement to implement open standards, reiterating the value of a common denominator fabric.
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New 28nm FPGAs deliver greater performance and new challenges to mil system integrators
Tighter timing constraints are among the challenges to anticipate as 28nm becomes ready for prime time.
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Rugged FPGA I/O team likely to draft XMC/FMC
Real estate broker? How FMCs free up real estate for more I/O.
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OpenVPX systems speed the move to all-digital RADAR
It's a match: An architecture that's scalable (OpenVPX) takes on the systolic-to-fully-parallel digital beamformer scaling challenge military system integrators face.
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Latest ADCs will cut IF sampling down to nanoseconds
Why receiver systems are poised for noticeable upticks in range, sensitivity, and selectivity.
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For floating-point processing, new choice arrives with the new decade
Rob outlines several reasons developers addressing COTS military signal processing have reason to consider the Intel Core i7 micro-architecture.
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OpenVPX and high-speed interconnects usher in a new era of highly scalable DSP systems
Hinderances to building large-scale DSP systems are falling by the wayside.
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Why 3U VPX has an edge over CompactPCI for FPGA/DSP military applications
Making the case for a form factor that the mil-aero COTS community can rely on for high-speed fabric support
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Advanced power management: The next step in DSP board design
Filling an information gap when it comes to power use
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Developers throttle the bottleneck to grab maximum I/O bandwidth using FMCs
The full potential of FPGAs to process data does not have to be hamstrung by data bottlenecks.
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Multiprocessor debugging challenges
As multiprocessor systems take on more and more roles as multi-spectral, reconfigurable sensors, successful debugging can shorten the time it takes solutions rooted in these systems to reach warfighters.
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SWAP Beat: Toolkits for FPGA development
This is the first of a planned series of columns by Robert Hoyecki, Director of Advanced Multi-Computing at Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. Rob will discuss a range of signal processing and FPGA applications to help mil-aero developers introduce products more quickly while trimming recurring costs.