GE Brings Improved Developer Productivity and System Performance to High Performance Embedded Computing Applications

Keywords: Multiple processing, Parallel Processing, Open Standards, Vector Signal, Image Processing, HPEC, SIGINT.

GE Intelligent Platforms announced the availability of Mentor Graphics Sourcery VSIPL++ which has been specifically optimized for the company's range of rugged embedded computing solutions.

The Sourcery VSIPL++ library for GE computing platforms is available from Mentor Graphics, who developed the capability in conjunction with GE.  It integrates with GE's AXISLIB-AVX performance-optimized VSIPL library with more than 600 DSP and math functions specifically targeted at Intel's latest 2nd generation Core platform.

VSIPL and VSIPL++ – Vector Signal Image Processing Library for C and C++ respectively – are open standard application programming interfaces (APIs) used by developers who desire a portable computational middleware for performance-intensive signal- and image processing applications.  GE Intelligent Platforms' AXISLIB-AVX provides a full VSIPL Core 1 profile library with commonly used functions for radar, sonar, signals intelligence (SIGINT), and electronic warfare (EW) applications.  Mentor Graphics' Sourcery VSIPL++ library is a portable implementation of the VSIPL++ API that provides a high-level abstraction layer for math libraries such as AXISLIB-AVX.  With Sourcery VSIPL++ and AXISLIB-AVX, developers can write program code only once and then reuse it on multiple platforms, such as the 2nd Generation Intel Core i7-based SBC624 and DSP280 OpenVPX COTS processors from GE Intelligent Platforms.

VSIPL++ is designed to provide higher performance relative to VSIPL, support for object orientation, support for multi-processor systems, extensibility and simpler syntax.  Multiple processing and parallel processing are increasingly features of the most demanding, most sophisticated military/aerospace high performance embedded computing (HPEC) applications, and VSIPL++ makes the development of such applications easier, faster and less costly.

The Sourcery VSIPL++ library provides a set of more than 240 C++ signal processing functions, while the proprietary compile-time and run-time dispatch engines optimize performance by mapping high level API function calls to the best performing low level hardware-optimized library functions available on the target platform.  The Sourcery VSIPL++ library provides detailed code execution and performance summary information logging to help users understand how applications are running across computing resources.

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