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September 2008 - "HPx-150 PMC Radar Interface Card

Cambridge Pixel announces an expanded range of options for radar interface cards with the HPx-150 PMC card. The card accepts radar video, trigger and azimuth turning data in the compant, robust PMC form-factor. The card may be fitted onto cPCI or VME processors for server application.

Learn more about HPx150  here

July 2008 - "Military Embedded Systems feature Cambridge Pixel"

Cambridge Pixel's Technical Director David Johnson describes the benefits of software-based radar scan-conversion in Military Embedded Systems - see original article here.

April 2008 - "HPx-100 Radar Interface Card"

Cambridge Pixel announces its new PCI Radar Capture card. The HPx-100 provides high-performance, cost-effective radar acqusition. The card may be used with the Cambridge Pixel supplied driver and API (C/C++ based)  to bring radar video into Windows or Linux applications. The compatible SPx processing library offers modular software components for optional network distribution, recording, and scan conversion of the radar video.

Learn more about HPx100  here

March 2008 - "SPx v1.6 Scan Converter leads with Trail History Retention capability"

The latest SPx Scan software scan converter will support trail history retention. Previous generation scan converters have traditionally lost all trail history when the operator changes scale. Now SPx Scan preserves history.

November 2007 - "SPx software for embedded and rugged applications"

SPx software libraries will be supported with GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms' MAGIC1 rugged display computer and related VPX hardware. This is a high-performance display and graphics engine  packaged in a base-plate-cooled chassis capable of operating in the harsh environments demanded by military and aerospace customers. The SPx software libraries provide high-performance radar processing and display capabilities for this platform, allowing primary radar video to be received, processed and scan-converted with very low CPU/GPU utilisation. For more information on the MAGIC1 see here (opens in a new browser window).

September 2007 - "Latest SPx software includes support for Linux/X11 and Microsoft XP/Vista"

Cambridge Pixel's latest release of its SPx software provides support for radar processing and scan conversion under Linux/X Windows and Microsoft XP/Vista. The development libraries provide enhanced processing capabilities with scan-to-scan integration and region-based processing, allowing complex polygons and range-azimuth segments to define an area of interest.

July 2007 - "SPx Radar Scan Converter for Frontier Electronic Systems, Stillwater, USA"

Cambridge Pixel is under contract to Frontier Electronic Systems, Stillwater, Oklahoma, to provide its SPx radar processing and scan conversion technology for radar distribution and display. Building on Frontier?s established radar network distribution product, the SPx scan converter will permit multiple channels of radar video to be processed and scan converted. The radar images are delivered in real-time to display consoles for presentation as a rotating sweep with underlay and overlay graphics. The SPx software provides a highly flexible set of software objects, optimized for modern multi-core processors and high-performance graphics GPU, and supported in a open architecture, extensible framework.

June 2007 - "New Standards for Radar Compression"

Cambridge Pixel has announced that it will offer both ZLIB and ORC (Open Radar Coding) formats for its radar video distribution standards. The choice will give users the option of achieving higher compression at the expense of more CPU (ZLIB) or conserving processing resources at the expense of more network bandwidth with ORC.