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CHELMSFORD, Mass., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Mercury Computer Systems has launched high-performance, Intel Core Processor-based products for ISR, defense and aerospace applications.
The Massachusetts company said its Ensemble Series 6U OpenVPX LDS6521 and the 3U OpenVPX SBC3510 modules deliver "up to four times the raw performance" of previous generations for deployment in harsh environments.
"Mercury is committed to keep pace with the Intel Core processor road map and to deliver superior products and performance that address the most difficult ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) processing challenges," said Steve Patterson, vice president of Defense Product Management at Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. "These new embedded computing products exemplify Mercury's commitment to deliver best-of-breed solutions for demanding radar, EW and EO/IR applications incorporating the latest Intel processors."
The company said sensors and antennas are delivering images and data with incredible detail, providing overwhelming volumes of high-resolution digital data on both manned and unmanned platforms, often demanding a 5-10X increase in processing capability. Mercury's 6U OpenVPX LDS6521 module utilizes the Intel Core i7-2715QE processor, significantly narrowing this gap.
The Intel Core i7-2715QE processor doubles the number of cores available on a single device over the previous generation and supports four cores. Each of the cores includes the new Intel Advanced Vector Extensions instruction set with only a minimal increase in power consumption.
"Together, these new features give Mercury's LDS6521 a 4X improvement in peak floating point computations per slot over previous module designs while maintaining an appropriate SWaP-optimized power profile," Mercury said.
Additionally, ISR subsystems using multiple Mercury LDS6521 modules benefit from POET, Mercury's previously announced Protocol Offload Engine Technology, enabling fast and low latency data communications between the new Intel Core processor-based modules as system size is scaled up.
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