WHITE PAPER
Processing Evolution for the Future Electronic Battlespace
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NEXT GEN RF PROCESSING SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS
To meet the requirements of next gen RF processing takes
vast experience, expertise, and close, working relationships
with leading commercial electronics companies, including
Intel, AMD Xilinx, and NVIDIA; to rapidly adopt and adapt
new, advanced technologies into deployable processing
subsystems able to operate and survive in the field.
Designing New Technologies into Rugged Subsystems
Mercury knows how to design these new technologies into
rugged, deployable processing subsystems both with server-
level architectures
and performance, and
with more balanced
performance/watt
considerations.
Embracing a COTS
(Commercial
off the Shelf) to
MOTS (Modified
off the Shelf)
concept, Mercury
employs proven board fabrication rules and subsystem
design techniques to commercial components that
add mechanical durability and extreme temperature
resilience to every subsystem building block. To learn
more about our commercial product performance
enhancements for extreme environmental conditions,
read the white paper: Durability Advantages of Mercury 's
Modified Off-The-Shelf (MOTS) Product Approach.
The performance leaps provided by new, tightly integrated
processing technologies come with a trade-off—equivalent
leaps in heat generation during operation. Some new printed
circuit boards have power specifications up to 350 watts,
heat that must be dissipated especially under extreme
environmental conditions. Mercury engineering teams use
advanced thermal modeling techniques to isolate and analyze
board level hot spots in early designs, then make modifications
to achieve more even distribution of the thermal flux.
When program-specific requirements far exceed published
rugged environment specifications, for example products
able to survive 1000 thermal cycles from -40°C to +85°C, our
system architectures are informed by decades of successful
applications of innovations in air, conduction, and liquid
cooling techniques to ensure commercial technologies
can be deployed to the most inhospitable locations.
Accelerating Application Development
Mercury 's approach to using commercially-based hardware
components and operating systems found in standard PCs
offers the quickest path for application development. On these
inexpensive platforms, in a benign environment, software
development teams can build an application, prove its
functionality, and optimize its performance. The move from
the lab to a deployment-ready subsystem is made much easier
when the same commercially-based hardware components
used during developement have ruggedized versions capable
of operation in the most electronics-unfriendly environments.
Secure and Trusted
Advanced cryptography, secure boot and physical protection
technologies like our BuiltSECURE™ technology can mitigate
reverse engineering, deliver cyber resiliency and safeguard
confidential data and IP against adversarial threats even when
a system has been compromised. We combine BuiltSECURE™
technologies with our systems security engineering services to
provide the ultimate in system security.
Mercury is committed to uncompromised delivery of trusted
solutions. We continue to invest in DMEA-accredited scalable
manufacturing operations in the U.S, enabling rapid, cost-effective
delivery via an uncompromised supply chain.
OPEN SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE STARTING AT CHIP SCALE
By applying advanced 2.5D system-in-package
technology, multiple processing 'chiplets' can be
densely integrated into compact packaging; shrinking
the functions of a printed circuit board into a more
diminutive, tightly-integrated component for SWaP
optimization at chip-scale. This building-block approach
to processing solution development is faster and less
expensive than traditional methods and opens a range of
options for customization.
Customizable system-in-package solutions combine
the latest commercial digital and RF processing
with advanced military-grade security for reliable
performance in challenging environments over the
entire lifetime of edge systems. From high-frequency
digitization to AI processing, you can put the entire
sensor chain into a single device small enough to fit into
the palm of your hand.
Mercury is a leading innovator in game-changing chiplet
technology, expanding our trusted microelectronics
capabilities to incorporate open systems architecture at
chip scale to push processing to the edge.
