Application-Specific Super Computer

Raymond J. Lackey; Herbert F. Baurle; John Barile

doi:10.1117/12.948570

16 December 1989 Application-Specific Super Computer

Raymond J. Lackey, Herbert F. Baurle, John Barile

Proceedings Volume 0977, Real-Time Signal Processing XI; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.948570
Event: 32nd Annual International Technical Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Applied Science and Engineering, 1988, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Super Computer processing levels will be necessary to implement real time functions in radar and communication systems. Design and fabrication of such systems require innovative approaches in addressing the problem rather than the normal methods of solution. The mathematical solution to multiple simultaneous equations is the optimum solution in many signal processing problems in radar and communications. Historically this optimum solution was not directly possible, so approximations were derived through various signal processing techniques. The advent of high-speed digital processing devices in concurrent processing architectures has raised the possibility of achieving the optimum solution. This mathematical solution is applicable to many adaptive signal processing problems including spatial, spectral, temporal, and moving target indication filtering. Hazeltine, under contract with RADC on the Systolic Array Processor Brassboard program, has built a processor solving this class of problems in a highly concurrent systolic processing architecture. The application-specific processor built on this program performs over 1.25 billion floating point operations per second (BFLOPS), solving equations with up to twelve complex variables.

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Raymond J. Lackey, Herbert F. Baurle, and John Barile "Application-Specific Super Computer", Proc. SPIE 0977, Real-Time Signal Processing XI, (16 December 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.948570

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