Intel Processing Solutions

A World Technology Leader 

With the Highest Performance in Commercial Processor Technologies
Today’s embedded, aerospace and defense industries rely heavily on modern commercial technology to meet the demanding power, size, and performance requirements of today’s mission-critical systems. The Intel® tick-tock technology cadence, which alternates microarchitecture advancements with power-saving die geometry shrinkage, has produced continuous performance improvements with reliable, scalable processing options available to suppliers of SBCs and DSP engines for use in embedded control, processing, and compute-intensive applications. 

Most Intel processors are System-on-Chips (SoC) as they also include additional processing engines to accelerate algorithms, such as GPU algorithms for video display, video codecs for accelerated image decompression, and audio processors for specialized speech recognition tasks. Additionally, Intel has added vector math acceleration (AVX2, AVX512) capabilities that greatly benefit the complex mathematical algorithms commonly used in signal processing applications. Intel's hybrid core processors contain a number of Performance cores (P-cores) and Efficient cores (E-cores). Empirical benchmark testing has demonstrated Intel E-cores to offer 70% of the comparable performance to P-cores, with 50% of the power consumption.

SWaP-Optimized for Rugged Deployed Platforms

Intel processing modules from Curtiss-Wright combine multi-core processing capabilities, ECC protected memory subsystems, high-speed I/O, and some with advanced graphics capabilities, all in embedded form factors. Curtiss-Wright’s innovative thermal management designs at the subsystem level have enabled us to reliably integrate Intel Core™ and Xeon® processors across extended temperature ranges using advanced cooling methods, resulting in reliable and deterministic performance even at high operational temperatures.

For high-performance processing applications, Intel processors have the highest efficiency of performance per watt, but how often do Intel processors actually reach maximum power? In most cases, systems do not require the maximum performance of an Intel processor, which means power consumption is less than the maximum TDP rating for the chip. A processor’s software usage will greatly influence how much power it draws.

Integrated GPUs Save Even More Space

Incredible advancements with Intel’s integrated Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have pushed the performance of their latest Core architecture chips beyond those of yesterday’s discrete GPUs. Whether used with OpenGL™ for mapping and graphics applications, or with OpenCL™ libraries to accelerate ISR and signal processing algorithms, these integrated GPUs combine incredibly high performance with low latency and increased security, while at the same time saving you valuable space, power and overall system complexity and costs.

TrustedCOTS

Curtiss-Wright's approach to embedded security design deploys defense-in-depth and defense-in-breadth strategies to take advantage of the security technologies inherent in commercial components and employ defense-grade security technologies. Our TrustedCOTS framework is a baseline security framework that fully enables the security capabilities of commercial hardware and software technologies to protect customer applications from compromise. This framework includes protection mechanisms for the boot chain, access control for configuration menus, software authentication mechanisms, encryption, and sanitization routines for onboard memory.

Curtiss-Wright's TrustedCOTS product security is supported by Intel with Boot Guard, which provides both an authenticated and a measured boot. With Boot Guard enabled, only signed and authenticated boot modules can be executed, creating a secure Root-of-Trust (RoT) on the module.