According to Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions (CWDS), its proposed multiprocessor High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) radar processing architecture has met the targets laid down in the US Air Force’s Next Generation Radar Processor Study. The goal of the study was to assess how cost-effectively COTS hardware and software could perform airborne radar signal processing.
Lynn Bamford, general manager of CWDS, said: “We have successfully demonstrated how our cost effective open architecture DSP and network switch building blocks, along with our open standard based OpenHPEC Accelerator Suite of software tools, can be effectively used to design whole new classes of rugged deployed HPEC solutions that deliver all of the proven cost savings and long lifecycle benefits of COTS technology, while elevating radar processing performance to levels never before achievable.”
CWDS ran and optimised the study’s Synthetic Aperture Radar and Ground Moving Target Indicator benchmarks on a solution comprised of its introduced OpenHPEC Accelerator Suite development tools, five OpenVPX DSP modules and a 40Gbit/s OpenVPX Ethernet switch module.
During the study, CWDS tested currently available, as well as next generation, OpenVPX modules. The test results also showed that standard conduction cooled OpenVPX modules can meet the performance requirements in the ‘most demanding’ USAF environments.
Author
Graham Pitcher
Source: www.newelectronics.co.uk