Integrated Sensors selects Mercury for U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Development ProgrammeChelmsford 11 September 2001 Mercury Computer Systems Inc., a provider of embedded real time digital signal and image processing systems, has been selected by Integrated Sensors Inc. (ISI) for a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Information Directorate Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) development programme to provide surveillance and tactical mission support.
"We selected Mercury's RACE++ Series multicomputers for their superior digital signal processing performance and their potential to be easily upgraded in later stages of the programme development", stated Steven Mercurio, manager of Systems Development Engineering for
Integrated Sensors. "These systems will be employed to develop statistical signal processing algorithms that will improve electronic intelligence data correlation and emitter identification processes."
RACE++ systems, incorporating "G4" PowerPC processors with AltiVec technology, will be used in conjunction with ISI's RTExpress software environment to rapidly convert MATLAB script files into parallel C language programming code that takes advantage of Mercury's optimised Scientific Algorithm Libraries (SAL). RTExpress is a software development tool for real time parallel computing systems that converts uniprocessor MATLAB code to a format that can be used
with multiprocessor architectures such as Mercury's RACE++.
Converting MATLAB files eases the burden of real time implementation by enabling programmers to implement without recoding from scratch. Furthermore, the algorithm developer can perform a real time test of the algorithm running on a multicomputer system before handing it off to the real time programmer for further optimisation. Also, speed is enhanced as a result of using compiled
parallel C code rather than a script language, which interacts continuously with the computing system's operating system during run time.
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