SBIR/STTR Research Award
Wideband Digital Beamforming and Direction Finding
Award amount
$69,972Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2003Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- SYSTEMS SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
A new digital signal processing architecture is proposed for electronic warfare (EW) and electronic support (ES) applications. The Reconfigurable EW/ES Processor (REW/ESP) is a flexible and expandable platform that can address a wide-range of real-timecomputational problems. The architecture overcomes the compute and I/O limitations of legacy systems by utilizing the latest COTS chassis with full-mesh serial backplanes, and a very large array of digital processing nodes comprised of the latest COTS64-bit CPUs and DSP-oriented FPGAs.The Phase I effort will identify the digital signal processing algorithms that match the Navy's ES/EW program priorities and design a REW/ESP configuration on to which the selected algorithms can be efficiently and cost-effectively mapped. Under Phase II,this REW/ESP platform will be built and used for a proof-of-concept laboratory hardware demonstration of the selected EW/ES algorithms implemented on the DSP node network.
Technology keywords
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