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State-of-the-Art
Reconfigurable Board for Heterogeneous Computing--Advanced
Principles Group,
Mr.
Joe G. Thompson, Principal Investigator, joe@advancedprinciples.com
Mr.
Joe G. Thompson, Business Official, joe@advancedprinciples.com
DOE
Grant No. DE-FG02-03ER83595
Amount:
$100,000
Software
Radio, needed for national security applications, drives wide bandwidths (40-100
MHz) and therefore requires super-computing I/O and signal processing
capabilities. General-purpose
processors do not provide enough performance density to effectively address
these applications, while Application Specific Integrated Circuits are costly
and difficult to update. Therefore,
this project will develop a state-of-the-art Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)-based
Reconfigurable Computing board, providing high-performance, high-density
computing on a low-cost, multi-purpose board.
Phase I will include initial systems studies and feasibility validations
for the reconfigurable FPGA computing board, and then system simulations and
models of at least one test application for Software Radio.
Phase I will result in a complete block diagram, schematics, and camera
ready layout for the proposed board, ready for construction in Phase II.
Commercial Applications and Other
Benefits
as described by awardee: In addition
to surveillance applications (e.g., related to communications, high-performance
computing, and sensor processing), the high-density, low-cost computing platform
also should benefit medical and target recognition systems.