SYSTEMS

Mercury consults with each customer to determine the best solution for a specific set of needs. For those who need a rapid, low-risk tech refresh, the RACE++ Series PowerPC 7448 Multicomputer module is a high-performance drop-in product upgrade that adds significant improvements in processor speed, L2 cache size, and memory available per processor. This module uses the same fabric as existing, long-deployed RACE++ systems, delivering compatibility across generations and straightforward software migration.

"Mercury offers customers a choice for their performance migration requirements -- either to continue to leverage their investment in RACE++ or to migrate to OpenVPX solutions," said Steve Patterson, Vice President of Defense Product Line Management at Mercury. "Many of our customers are looking for upgrades to currently deployed systems, tech refreshes that can be put in place quickly and with minimal risk to the overall program. For these customers, we have an upgrade path to PowerPC 7448 processors that delivers a 30-50 percent increase in performance through simple board swaps."

Mr. Patterson continued: "Other customers need a larger performance gain in embedded computing to support advanced sensing and imaging technology. Mercury provides implementations based on VXS and OpenVPX, offering application portability and five-fold increases in bandwidth and processing performance facilitated through Mercury's open software suite."

Systems integration services from Mercury are available to support these upgrades, further mitigating the program risk. Radar systems on both manned and unmanned platforms, as well as signals intelligence applications, have recently taken advantage of the RACE++ tech refresh capability.