 As airport security has increased over the last decade, the requirements have also evolved. While the typical radar systems used within airports have been focused on air threats, upgraded systems now include scans for ground-based threats. These new systems must key into the existing radar systems, and continually scan certain territories looking for intrusions.
The challenge with this particular application was to provide high-speed analog capture and processing across multiple channels, with built-in channel redundancy to ensure that if one channel is down for any reason, there is another ready to take over. The end-customer also required a complete system.
BittWare’s fully integrated system solution included a turn-key 6U-CPCI chassis consisting of multiple DSPs and numerous channels of high speed ADC, and custom designed FPGA loads running on the PMC+ cards to save some of the hardware costs necessitated by increased system redundancy.
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