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News Release from: Mercury Computer Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 11 May 2007
Raytheon applies RapidIO and DRAM
control IP
Mercury Computer Systems has provided silicon intellectual property to Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems for the development of the Monarch processor.
Mercury Computer Systems has provided silicon intellectual property (SIP) to Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems for the development of the Monarch (morphable networked microarchitecture) fully programmable, system-on-a-chip-processor The Monarch processor was developed by Raytheon under a DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) contract for the Polymorphous Computing Architecture (PCA) programme
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 May 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The programme goal is to develop processing architectures that can reconfigure and adapt to mission requirements, such as those in airborne and space radar and global positioning systems, and to reduce mission computing payload adaptation, optimisation, and verification times from months and years, to minutes.
The Monarch subcontracting team includes the University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute, the Georgia Institute of Technology, IBM's Global Engineering Solutions division, and Mercury Computer Systems.
Mercury provided its Serial RapidIO IP core with DMA capability, DRAM control IP and component middleware.
As a complete, high-performance, high-function core with the industry-standard RapidIO interconnect architecture, Mercury's IP core can address a variety of endpoint and switching communications applications.
According to Raytheon, the Monarch processor is the most adaptable processor ever built for the Department of Defense, with exceptional compute capacity, highly flexible data bandwidth capability, and state-of-the-art power efficiency.
"We are pleased to work with Raytheon in pioneering the development of this new-generation processor, with its unique ability to reconfigure and optimise processing on the fly", said Mark Skalabrin, Vice President and General Manager of the Advanced Solutions business at Mercury Computer Systems.
"Mercury's broad range of IP solutions addresses a growing number of data-intensive requirements, such as those targeted for the Monarch processor, in both commercial and defence applications".
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