SBIR/STTR Research Award
TEST RANGE TRACKING NETWORK PROCESSORS
Award amount
$49,992Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1991Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Army
- Recipient company
- Mentor Technologies, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
VLSI (VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION) TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN DEVELOPED TO THE POINT WHERE SPECIAL PURPOSE PROCESSORS MAY BE CONCATENATED TO FORM COMPACT SUPERCOMPUTERS WITH FAR GREATER THROUGHPUT RATES THAN UNI-PROCESSOR MACHINES. THESE NEW MASSIVELY PARALLEL COMPUTERS PROMISE TO SOLVE THE ARMY'S EVER INCREASING NEED TO PROCESS MORE DATA IN SHORTER TIMES, AND WITH IMPROVED ACCURACY. MTI WILL DETERMINE THE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE TRADEOFF ISSUES INVOLVED IN USING THESE MACHINES FOR REAL-TIME MULTISENSOR MULTITARGET TRACKING BASED UPON A NEW MTI ALGORITHM FOR CONSTRAINED LEAST SQUARES ESTIMATION IN DISTRIBUTED FORM.
Technology keywords
Not reported