CHELMSFORD, Mass., 12 May 2011. Mercury Computer Systems in Chelmsford, Mass., is introducing 3U VPX and 6U VPX digital signal processing (DSP) boards for electronic warfare and signals intelligence (EW/SIGINT) applications. The OpenVPX computer boards combine several technologies that help detect, spoof, and defeat enemy electronic transmissions from radar to trigger signals for improvised explosive devices (IEDs).The DSP boards package application-ready systems combine embedded computing with RF tuners, and are for larger EW and SIGINT systems. The boards are custom designs that tightly integrate RF and IR processing and advanced A/D converters.Two 3U OpenVPX modules are for small, lightweight EW/SIGINT that cannot use much power. The Ensemble HCD3210 combines a Xilinx Virtex-6 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) with a Freescale dual-core 8640D general purpose processor and an XMC I/O site. It is a one-slot solution for data acquisition and multi-stage processing. The board has a Serial RapidIO fabric data plane, a Gigabit Ethernet switching control plane, and an IPMI-based system management plane.
Mercury's 6U OpenVPX modules have the Echotek Series SCFE-V6-OVPX module that supports three Virtex-6 FPGAs, two VITA-57 FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) sites, and a Linux-based control processor. The FMC sites can be configured with A/D and D/A converters.
For more information contact Mercury online at www.mc.com.
