CHELMSFORD, Mass., 13 May 2007.Mercury Computer Systems Inc. has provided silicon intellectual property (SIP) to Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems for the development of the Monarch (Morphable Networked Micro-Architecture) programmable, system-on-a-chip-processor.
The Monarch processor was developed by Raytheon under a DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) contract for the Polymorphous Computing Architecture (PCA) program.
The program goal is to develop processing architectures that can reconfigure and adapt to mission requirements, such as those in airborne and space radar and global positioning systems, and to reduce mission computing payload adaptation, optimization, and verification times from months and years, to minutes.
The Monarch subcontracting team includes the University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute, the Georgia Institute of Technology, IBM's Global Engineering Solutions division, and Mercury Computer Systems.
