Mil Tech Trends: Controlling the UAV overhead (Part 1 of 2)
arithmetic operations in a program loop, all of which execute in parallel. Contrast this with a microprocessor compiler, which is limited by the number of arith- metic compute elements available in the CPU’s design. The real issue here is the effectiveness of a given set of software tools for a given system. But software tools do exist to provide programmers of compute-intensive ISR applications access to the potential performance in reconfigurable hardware.
Reconfigurability facilitates rapid deployment, SWaP
Reconfigurable systems and tools are available today for rapid development and deployment of ISR applications. The dense computational nature of reconfigu- rable systems makes them an ideal choice for solutions where Size, Weight, and Power consumption matters. Software tools closely coupled with the hardware allow software programmers to quickly achieve high performance in a low-SWaP processor payload.
Accordingly, SRC Computers provides modular, scalable, reconfigurable low- SWaP systems with software tools and libraries, using ANSI standard languages for rapid deployment of compute- intensive ISR applications for UAVs. SRC Computers has developed a high-bandwidth, low-latency network switch that provides the necessary non- blocking “many-to-many” module, in addition to data stream constructs for intermodule communication, OpenMP- style pragmas for code block paralleliza- tion, and automatic loop pipelining for instruction-level parallelization.
David Pointer is Director of System Applications for SRC Computers, LLC (Colorado Springs, CO). His career spans 30 years in industry and academia, includ-
ing Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Science. He may be contacted at
dpointer@srccomputers.com.
SRC Computers, LLC 719-262-0213
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