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Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has announced the first deliveries of its new CHAMP-AV8 and VPX6-490 signal and image processor boards, the industry's highest density and highest performance fabric bandwidth VPX modules. The two modules, both designed to meet the most demanding SIGINT, COMINT and radar processing applications, together with CWCEC's FPGA engines and FMC I/O modules, deliver the industry's most comprehensive and highest performance single board computer (SBC) and GPGPU solutions for the most demanding HPEC applications.

The CHAMP-AV8, CWCEC's first rugged, high performance OpenVPX DSP (digital signal processing) engine based on the new quad-core Intel Core i7-2715QE processor, accelerates SIGINT algorithms with its 256-bit AVX floating point instruction set. The VPX6-490 GPGPU compute engine features dual NVIDIA GPUs based on the NVIDIA Fermi architecture, and the massive compute capability of a pair of 240-core GPU devices. Together these two 6U OpenVPX processor engines comprise the heart of very high performance rugged deployable signal processor systems for aerospace and defense applications.

"We are very excited to announce that we are currently shipping our CHAMP-AV8 and VPX6-490 VPX DSP engines," said Lynn Bamford, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. "We are proud to lead the embedded market with the highest performance COTS processors available today for demanding radar and signal intelligence systems."