One of BittWare’s long-time customers designs radar imaging systems for the military, among other applications. When they first approached BittWare over a decade ago, they required portability for ground-based radar in the field, but also needed to ensure that their system could provide high-speed data acquisition with the ability to perform highly complex data analysis in real-time, along with the flexibility to use the same design in aircraft and ship imaging.

This real-time analysis includes saving all incoming data, applying filters, performing complex algorithmic manipulation, and creating images – all in order to make critical decisions in the battlefield.

BittWare’s COTS hardware based on Analog Devices’ floating-point DSPs was the perfect fit, as it provided the necessary high-end digital signal processing, but was also available on multiple form-factors, ensuring that the same design could be ported to various applications. BittWare also provided daughter cards for the data conversion. Throughout the more than decades-long relationship, three generations of BittWare products have been used in these applications.