High Performance Computing on FPGA: Whitepaper from Mistral Solutions
High-Performance Computing is the use of parallel processing for the faster execution of complex computational problems in a variety of critical domains including defense systems, medical computing, financial analysis and more. In the past, FPGAs were restricted to a narrow set of HPC applications because of their relatively high cost. Over time, however, advancements in process technology have enabled them to have
high compute densities and shrinking costs.
This paper highlights High-Performance Embedded Computing using FPGAs, which utilizes FPGAs as co-processor to perform massive computations
and data intensive tasks. FPGAs provide massive parallelism and have the flexibility to be tuned to meet the specific needs of an application without the cost or delay of designing a custom coprocessor.
Signal and Data Processing Rack: Case Study from Mistral Solutions
The Signal and Data Processing Rack is one of the sub-systems in the radar network which provides resources for radar signal processing,
data capturing, data recording with other radar control functions.
The Case Study highlights Mistral’s expertise in the architecture and design of a custom hybrid system that supports two industry standard bus architectures VME and VPX, to meet the requirements of input/output signals, communication links, processing capability and data transfer capability.
NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity Powered By Wind River: Case Study
from Wind River
On August 6, 2012, NASA made an enormous advancement in space exploration when it landed the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity in the Gale Crater on Mars. Curiosity is the most technologically advanced autonomous robotic spacecraft and geologist set ever to be deployed by any space venture. It’s on a groundbreaking mission to determine whether Mars is or has ever been capable of supporting life and to assess its habitability for future human missions.
Wind River®’s VxWorks® real-time operating system (RTOS) plays a central role in this historic mission. VxWorks provides the core operating system for the spacecraft control system from the start to the end of the mission. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the lead U.S. center for robotic exploration of the solar system, has used VxWorks as the mission-critical OS brain for more than two decades. The total cost of the Curiosity project is approximately $2.5 billion and represents eight years of passion and work, so the stakes are high, and a fail-proof, resilient RTOS was a core requirement.
A Novel Algorithm Towards Lossy Image Compression Using FPGA: Whitepaper from Mistral Solutions
Due to the advancement of technology in medical and security, there is a prerequisite for huge storage of image. The performance and the storage area are the main challenges towards the compression and decompression of the image.
This paper presents a Novel algorithm for the lossy compression method, where the performance and storage has been proscribed with hardware descriptive language (HDL). In addition MSE (Mean Squared Error), PSNR (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio), Power and Area has been calculated and compared with various fractal compression algorithms. |
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