LEESBURG, VA – April 21, 2010 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, VXS and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed defense and aerospace market, has announced an enhanced, updated version of its comprehensive DSP function library, Continuum Vector, that is optimized for use with Intel’s new Core i7 SSE 4.2 processors. Designed for use in aerospace and defense signal processing applications such as radar, sonar, and SIGINT, the Continuum Vector DSP function library provides a rich set of signal processing subroutine building blocks. It speeds the development of embedded signal processing systems and eases the migration of hundreds of legacy platforms based on Altivec-based DSP libraries to new Intel processor based designs.
“Continuum Vector has established itself as a powerful tool for system integrators building and developing demanding signal processing applications,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Modular Solutions group. “Now, with a version of the library optimized for the latest high performance Intel processors, such as the Core i7 SSE 4.2, Continuum Vector leads the way for designers of new Intel-based radar and signal processing systems.”
Continuum Vector features over 140 commonly used DSP functions, and supports native operation on Intel-based desktop computers (running Linux), enabling developers to generate algorithms on a PC environment before target hardware becomes available, to significantly reduce development time and speed time to market. The new Intel-optimized version of Continuum Vector uniquely retains the same API as earlier Altivec-based versions, but enables compiling on an Intel-based platform. The library supports the industry standard VSIPL interface, as well as an industry standard API.
In addition, the new version of Continuum Vector now offers multi-threaded functions that can automatically use numerous cores simultaneously to accelerate a particular function. While previous DSP libraries supported simultaneous core operation, the individual cores would typically operate on separate functions, increasing throughput but not improving the performance of a specific function. In comparison, the new version of Continuum Vector, by supporting multi-threaded functions can significantly improve the latency, rather than just the throughput, of the desired results
The Continuum Vector library enables algorithm developers to work with high-level signal-processing functions instead of complicated low-level programming. Continuum Vector is supported on all of Curtiss-Wright Controls’ Intel processor-based VME and VPX single board computers and signal processing engines, including the CHAMP -AV5.
The Continuum Vector Library provides Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) which are compatible with other popular board vendor function library APIs. It also supports the industry standard Vector Signal Image Processing (VSIPL) interface API’s as well as the Continuum Vector API.
Continuum Vector Features:
- Signal Processing Library
- Supports native operation on desktop PCs
- Industry-standard APIs and open- standard APIs including VSIPL
- VxWorks and Linux support
Performance benchmarking reports are available. Please contact the factory for more information.
Continuum Vector is priced at $6000 per project per site.
Sales inquiries: Please forward all Sales and reader service inquiries to Jerri-Lynne Charbonneau, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, Tel: (613) 254-5112; Fax: (613) 599-7777; e-mail: sales@cwcembedded.com.
About Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing is the industry’s most comprehensive and experienced single source for embedded solutions, ranging from Processing, Subsystems, Data Communication, DSP, and Video & Graphics to the most advanced board level components and fully integrated custom systems. The Embedded Computing group serves the defense, aerospace, commercial and industrial markets and is part of Curtiss-Wright Controls Inc.
About Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc.
Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Curtiss-Wright Controls is the motion control segment of Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW). With manufacturing facilities around the world, Curtiss-Wright Controls is a leading technology-based organization providing niche motion control products, subsystems and services internationally for the aerospace and defense markets. For more information, visithttp://www.cwcontrols.com/.
