OpenVPX enables tightly coupled FPGA and CPU processing for unmanned EW platforms.
By Eran Strod, Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions
OpenVPX brings together high-speed parallel processing FPGAs with the software capability of CPUs to meet the most challenging sensor processing applications for unmanned platforms.
Today's UAVs, UGVs, and UUVs are being enhanced with an increasing amount of sensors. The huge amount of incoming data from these Electronic Warfare (EW) sensors needs to be processed as close to real-time as possible. As processing elements go, the FPGA is ideal as a sensor interface. It is great at performing a fixed algorithm on parallel data with unmatched speed and very low latency. High-end FPGAs are equipped with a large number of serial or parallel interfaces, allowing them to input large quantities of raw data that is then preprocessed.
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