Cambridge Pixel Developments
We have continued to innovate and expand our product offering for system integrators working with primary radar video. This month we announce new product developments to support .NET under Windows, and introduce our new Radar Display Coprocess (RDC) software architecture for Linux and Windows.
We are pleased to have won a significant number of new contracts worldwide for the supply of our radar tracking and scan conversion technology. |
| .NET Support for SPx Applications | |
.NET for Radar Scan Conversion and Tracker Control
 Cambridge Pixel has responded to the needs of its customers by offering .NET support for the development of Windows-based applications for radar processing and display. The Microsoft .NET Framework supports multiple programming languages, allowing an application to combine code written in several .NET languages. When used with Cambridge Pixel's new RDC software co-processor (see below), SPx allows client applications to provide a .NET solution for radar scan conversion, with radar being received from the HPx-100 card or from a network SPx Server. |
| New Radar Display Coprocessor (RDC) | |
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New Software Architecture for Radar Scan Conversion
Shipping with the latest SPx Development Release is the new SPx Radar Display Coprocessor (RDC). This presents a new software architecture for the addition of radar video into a graphical client application. The SPx library still supports the standard solution using the SPx C++ class library to provide the greatest flexibility. With RDC, however, it is possible to decouple the client application from the scan converter, running each in separate software processes with a socket-based interface between them.
With the RDC running in a separate process, the client is cleanly separated from the scan conversion, yet the RDC is still able to add its scan converted radar video into the window of the client application using Cambridge Pixel's "Radar Insertion" technology. We have been able to retrofit scan-conversion into many legacy applications (Windows and X-Windows), replacing obsolete hardware scan converters, with minimal changes to the client application. RDC is supported under Linux and Windows with .NET or Win32 interfaces.  |
| Enhanced Scan Integration in SPx Server | |
Scan Integration for SPx Tracker
The latest version of SPx Tracker provides expanded scan-to-scan integration capabilities allowing up to 64 scans of video to be processed to extract weak targets. Although strong targets that are significantly above the background noise level can be detected as tracks in a few scans, weak targets may appear hardly different from the background. By using the Scan Integration module, the weak targets can be correlated for up to 64 scans to enhance them.
The expanded Scan Integration capability is standard in SPx Server v 1.30 and later. Existing customers with a current development license can upgrade to the new capability free of charge. |
