Top commanders seek to embed EW capability at virtually all echelons as warfighters seek to make up for years of lost time.

Today’s embedded-system designers have a great variety of processor types to select from, with FPGAs and GPUs adding their own various advantages and disadvantages for consideration in contrast to the more familiar CPUs.

Missile testing programs rely on the telemeter, a costly system that captures flight-test data. Bringing off-the-shelf modular architectures to missile telemeter design lowers costs, enables more tests, and reduces program and schedule risk.

Denis Smetana discusses the design approaches for implementing beamforming processing tasks using GPU, DSP and FPGA processors.