GPGPU is transforming embedded military/aerospace applications

Challenging applicationsVideo stablilization, compression, decompression and processing; target tracking; image enhancement; sensor fusion; radar and lidar; encryption, decryption and cryptanalysis; software defined radio; and simulation. All of these are sophisticated military/aerospace embedded computing applications that challenge developers, not least because they require significant amounts of computing horsepower (Figure 1). More than that: increasingly, the requirement is to deploy these applications in confined spaces that must have minimal weight, consume little power and that are subject to harsh conditions – such as unmanned aerial vehicles.Figure 1: Video tracking is a typical military/aerospace application wh

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