Evolution of Embedded Processing for Wide Area Surveillance

Abstract

Research and development being performed at the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL's) Information Directorate is leading the way by providing a scalable, reconfigurable, embedded processing capability to ingest raw sensor data, process the data into information, and distribute the products to the war fighter. The airborne processing capability discussed in this article demonstrates substantial improvement over previously demonstrated capabilities. The heterogeneous AirWASP high-performance embedded computer (HPEC) system, Coeus, was developed using state-of-the-art, general-purpose graphical processing units (GPGPUs) and CPUs-- all while considering stringent size. We review the AirWASP project and cover requirements, generation, processing needs, tradeoffs, system design, and our future vision.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA618441

Entities

People

  • Courtney L. Usmail
  • Michael O. Little
  • Richard E. Zuber

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Application Software
  • Central Processing Units
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Processing
  • Data Rate
  • Detectors
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • High Performance Computing
  • Information Systems
  • Military Research
  • Parallel Processing
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar

Readers

  • Aerospace Research.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design