A Micro-DAP for DD(X) Total Ship Computing Environment Infrastructure (TSCE-I) Hardware and Software Technology

RLW proposes to design and demonstrate a TSCE-I compliant "micro" Distributed Adaptation Processor (DAP) by incorporating a modified TSCE client into its SxNAP(TM) family of products. This will provide a family of "Small, low cost peripheral data collection and legacy system interface" options for DD(X) and other DoD and commercial platforms. The SxNAP family has been developed over the last five years to provide a hardware/software platform to enable connection of any analog sensor to any network. The SxNAP devices provide signal conditioning and sensor power, local processing to apply algorithms and logic to sensor data (reduce bandwidth and enable limited local closed-loop control), and communications to manage the network interface and format the data. The family spans multi-sensor/high processing power applications for vibration analysis to single sensor/low processing power applications for monitoring distributed parameter values (temperature, pressure). Our efforts to date have focused on an XML interface over wired and wireless (802.11b/g) TCP/IP networks, but the platform has been designed to accommodate any network interface. This project will adapt and port the TSCE Client onto a low-cost microprocessor/microcontroller platform - the SxNAP Network Processor.