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Implementing the High Profiles of MPEG-2 & MPEG-4/ H.264 on an FPOA Architecture

Military Aerospace Applications

Mathstar Arrix FPOAs are ideally suited to meet the challenges of UAVs and a broad range of military and aerospace applications.

• High Speed Filtering (FIR)
• Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)
• Digital Beamforming

Military Aerospace Overview

Military and Aerospace applications continue to drive advanced requirements in reconfigurable digital signal processing, including radar processors, sonar processors, uplink / downlink systems, encryption and cryptographic systems.

Challenges in Military Aerospace

A prime example is Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs). High resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar systems employing computationally intense backprojection algorithms and camera-based High definition vision systems are driving the need for more sophisticated on-board image processing and more data compression for video that is transmitted to the ground-based control. Combine these developments with requirements for real time image processing mode-switching—for example, from image identification to image tracking—and it’s clear why high performance, re-configurable devices are increasingly employed in these systems.

How Can FPOAs Solve Challenges in Military Aerospace?

FPOA’s are ideally suited to meet the challenges of UAVs and broad range of military and aerospace applications. Operating deterministically at speeds to 1 GHz, FPOAs offer up to four times the performance of today’s FPGAs. They are ideally suited for processing the building block filters and transforms found in these applications, as well as solution level tasks such as JPEG2000 image compression.

Applicable MathStar Libraries & IP Cores

Library/IP Core	Description	Document
Color Space Conversion	1 Giga sample per second scalable color space conversion IP Core
Flat Field Error Correction	1 Giga sample per second scalable flat field error correction IP Core - includes documentation, design files, test bench and device mapping
JPEG2000 Encoder	JPEG2000 Encoder IP Core that supports up to 200 Mega samples per second. Supports up to 10 bit monochrome or 8 bit 4:4:4 RGB inputs.
Sobel Edge Detection	1 Giga sample per second scalable Sobel edge detector IP Core - includes documentation, design files, test bench and device mapping

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