AppServer Develops Hyperspectral Imaging Processor Using Celoxica Design Tools and RC Series FPGA Platform; ESL Slashes Development Time
OXFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom—(BUSINESS WIRE)—April 10, 2006—
Celoxica (LSE:CXA) and accelerated computing specialist
AppServer Solutions, Inc. today announced the successful development
of a high-performance, multi-context real-time hyperspectral imaging
(HSI) movie processor. By using Celoxica's DK Design Suite of ESL
design tools and RC300 Series FPGA platform, engineers at AppServer
Solutions reduced development time by some 70% and completed the
project in under one month.
HSI is used in defense and civilian remote sensing tasks such as
chemical and biological weapons detection, underground bomb-damage
assessment, foliage penetration, mineral exploration and environmental
monitoring. Already deployed into the defense sector the HSI system
developed by AppServer collects and interprets detailed spectral
information from a scene. The spectral range includes infrared,
visible and ultra-violet light: typically with wavelengths of 300-2000
nm (0.3-2 micro). The resulting images are called hyperspectral cubes
which are then clustered into representative groups or components.
This operation is called hyperspectral classification and allows the
users to remotely identify otherwise undetectable features such as
particular crops, geological structures or hidden armaments.
Using just a single FPGA-based hyperspectral processor, the
AppHyperTracker system can parallel process more than 15 100-megabyte
hyperspectral cubes per second from multiple sensors in real-time.
Celoxica's ESL environment allows users to explicitly specify
parallelization at all needed levels of granularity. According to Dr.
Marina Murzina, AppServer's chief technology officer, this is a
significant advantage over the machine-automated parallelization
provided by other high-level programming tools. Since automated
parallelization cannot possibly allow for all the optimizations needed
in very high performance HSI.
"Celoxica's DK Design Suite frees the user from exhausting RTL
programming effort," Dr. Murzina said. "As a result, it took us only
three weeks to implement highly efficient parallel Hyperspectral
algorithms on the RC300 board. This includes real-time video output."
AppServer Solutions uses Celoxica C-based design and synthesis
tools to optimize complex digital image and signal processing
algorithms and synthesize them directly to FPGA hardware. Celoxica's
design tools provide direct integration with FPGA vendor place and
route. AppServer engineers used Celoxica's Platform Abstraction Layer
(PAL) open-API to develop their applications and IP to a single set of
interfaces and independent of board level detail.
"PAL provided us with a comprehensive set of tools and examples
for using the RC300 board's hardware, such as on-board SRAM and DDR,
video output, audio input and output, and Ethernet," said the CEO of
Appserver Solutions, Mr. Alan Prouse. "This allowed us to concentrate
on algorithms and the high-level design of the application."
"With the DK Design Suite, our FPGA customers have access to the
industry's benchmark ESL design solutions," said Jeff Jussel, vice
president of worldwide marketing for Celoxica. "AppServer's aggressive
time-to-market and product development achievements demonstrate what
is possible when you combine engineering talent with ESL and FPGA."
About Celoxica
A leader in electronic system level design (ESL), Celoxica is
enabling the next generation of advanced electronic products by
producing tools, boards, IP and services that turn software into
silicon. Celoxica technology raises design abstraction to the
algorithm level, accelerating productivity and lowering risk and costs
by generating semiconductor hardware directly from C-based software
descriptions. Adding to a growing installed base, Celoxica provides
the world's most widely used C-based behavioral design and synthesis
solutions to companies developing semiconductor products in markets
such as consumer electronics, defense and aerospace, automotive,
industrial and security. Celoxica is a publicly traded company on the
Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange under the
symbol CXA. For more information, visit: www.celoxica.com
About AppServer Solutions, Inc.
Based in Carlsbad, California, Appserver Solutions develops
sophisticated algorithmic solutions and integrates them into custom
FPGA-based hardware, for commercial, enterprise and military markets.
The applications include video processing, target tracking,
hyperspectral classification, networking and acoustic noise reduction.
For every product, parallel design and hardware board(s) are custom
built precisely as needed for the fastest optimal implementation with
minimal energy consumption. AppServer Solutions is privately owned.
AppServer Solutions is a member of several industry groups including
PICMG(R) (PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group). AppServer
Solutions is also a premier member of the Intel(R) Communications
Alliance (ICA).
Celoxica and the Celoxica logo are trademarks of Celoxica Holdings
plc. All other brand names and product names are the property of their
respective owners
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