radar
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New developments in DSP design
Advances in DSP development tools and chips that support both fixed- and floating-point circuitries help forge high-level design flows for FPGAs.
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Consumer Market Drives Advances in High-Performance Embedded Computing
Military and aerospace sector reaps benefits from consumer-led technology developments. The military and aerospace market may be said to have started this situation, first as far back as the late-1970s with the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) that laid the groundwork for the packet-switch networks that, in turn, form the basis of today's Internet, then again with the 1980s Very High-Speed Integrated Circuits (VHSIC) program that established the blueprints for semiconductor design and manufacturing.
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High-performance Element Processing Architecture for Open Standards Radar Systems
High-performance Element Processing Architecture can now be employed as a basis for large array radar systems, enabling system designers to increase levels of digitization by using open standards based hardware. The advent of OpenVPX and its flexible and scalable architecture now makes it possible for military system integrators to improve total cost of ownership of radar systems.
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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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Critical Techniques for High Speed A/D Converters in Real-Time Systems
Markets for high-speed A/D converters are significant in size and many are growing rapidly. Commercial users include wireless mobile communication systems, airline radar, air traffic control towers, ship communications, and wireless networks. Industrial uses include medical imaging systems and process control systems. Government is another significant user: military radar, global military radio networks, unmanned aerial vehicles, and intelligence gathering systems.
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Enabling Interoperability in High-Performance Embedded Applications
OpenVPX expands on the VPX Base and Dot Specifications and provides a System Specification to address interoperability issues between VPX modules and Chassis. OpenVPX is an extensible specification that addresses the current and future needs for computing in harsh environments.
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Daily Briefing: News Snippets
A roundup of recent military trends and contract bends including: 3U CompactPCI joins U.S. Army ranks; RATS welcome on the battlefield, by way of Android; First OpenVPX contract; C-130E says 'goodbye' ... and 'hello'; and many other headlines.
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Putting FPGAs to Work in Software Radio Systems
This white paper introduces the basics of FPGA technology and its relationship to Software Defined Radio (SDR) systems.
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Digitizer boards have what it takes for high channel count signal processing
Ultra-wideband signal processing requires getting the real-world signals into and out of the front-end DSP processors with minimal latency and maximum signal integrity. The Triton V-5 from TEK Microsystems combines ultra-fast ADC and DAC channels with three Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs, while the...
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QuiXilica V5 Architecture: The High Performance Sensor I/O Processing Solution for the Latest Generation and Beyond
Military sensor data processing applications for communications, radar, and electronic warfare have an insatiable demand for increased signal performance. Sensors continually require more channels, increased processing capabilities, higher memory performance and greater communications bandwidth.
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Single-source approach speeds delivery, mitigates risk for radar and signal processing systems
Radar and sonar systems are hugely complex animals. They don’t just rely on garden-variety single board computers; they need sensor processor front ends, intermediate signal converters, legacy military interfaces, graphics processors, and other functions. Rob Hoyecki cautions that because of the complexities involved, it’s advisable to stick with a single systems integrator to pull all these bits together.
Jeff Hoch, GE Intelligent Platforms, Inc.
Rodger Hosking, Pentek, Inc.
