COTS replacement for F-16 computer

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TRW is developing a replacement box on the PowerPC commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) processor for the fire-control computer (FCC) in the F-16C/D Block 40 fighter. The replacement initiative is part of the reconfigurable Avionics Computer Emulator (RACE) program of the USAF Research Laboratory. TRW is adapting its Reconfigurable Processor for Legacy Avionics Code Execution (RePLACE) for the RACE concept-demonstration phase. Other stages of the RACE program are a formal validation of both FCC (MIL-STD1750A) and a second (Z-8002) architecture used in the F-16. RePLACE is a generic dual-instruction-set architecture and emulation environment with open-system interfaces that permits legacy and new code to run in real time on the same processor in the current input/output environment.

Northrop Grumman Space & Mission Systems Corp., F-16C/D Block 40

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Acoustic processing opens up the deep

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GTE Internetworking's BBN Technologies division developed a range of its Advanced Acoustic Processor (AAP) that uses commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology. The AAP are light enough to be placed in a ship, anti-submarine helicopter or maritime-patrol aircraft, are user friendly and cost efficient. An Attache AAP variant, installed on a Pentium II personal computer using the Windows NT operating system, can tackle 640 million floating-point operations per second (MFLOPS) on a 6U VME-format array processor housed in a single motherboard. BBN also created a sizable library of software modules in the C language for the AAP signal-processing engine.

Science & Engineering EDP NEC, Computer applications, Computer aided engineering, BBN Technologies, AAP, Advanced Acoustic Processor

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Forward-area reconnaisance aid is easier to handle

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Computing Devices Co has developed a laptop version of its Tactical Reconnaissance Exploitation Facility (TREF). The laptop called RAPID (Realtime Access Portable Imagery Display), has been designed to support TRED, which processes the offline infrared linescan or online RAPTOR (electro-optic/IR) digital inputs from the Tornado, and converts them to STANAG 7023 Edition 3 image format. RAPID also supports the STANAG 4545 primary stage format.

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