GERMANTOWN, Md. – Military communications experts at Herrick Technology Laboratories Inc. in Germantown, Maryland, needed high-performance embedded computers for adaptive waveform processing applications. They found their solution from Wolf Advanced Technology in Stouffville, Ontario.
Wolf will supply the company’s VPX3U-RTX5000-SWITCH module compliant with Herrick’s Sensor Open System Architecture (SOSA) for adaptive waveform processing applications.
The module will include an NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 GPU and switch backplane capabilities for PCI Express Gen 4 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet in a solution that is designed to save slot space in 3U VPX systems.
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NVIDIA Quadro RTX 5000 GPU provides up to 11 terraFLOPs of processing power and 384 AI Tensor cores for high performance embedded computers (HPEC) applications that include radar, artificial intelligence and signals intelligence.
“Initially we were thinking of starting our own SOSA-aligned A PCIe Gen 4 switch combined with a GPU module using NVIDIA MXM modules, but we decided to partner with WOLF because of their experience with NVIDIA’s chip reduction technology, which provides significantly better performance,” says Robert Normoyle, Staff Scientist for Herrick.
“We were also impressed with WOLF’s experience with hardening to make commercial GPUs work effectively under extreme temperatures, shocks and vibrations,” says Normoyle. The Wolf module “adds significant new performance and flexibility to our high-performance multipurpose RF VPX systems. “
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Herrick designs SOSA- and CMOS-aligned high-performance multi-function RF modules and VPX systems to support signals intelligence, electronic warfare and communications applications for commercial and military system designers.
Herrick also designs open architecture software-defined radio (SDR) systems with multi-channel RF and microwave receive and transmit functionality for demanding mission environments.
For more information contact WOLF Advanced Technology online at https://wolfadvancedtechnology.comor Herrick Technology Laboratories at www.herricktechlabs.com.
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