Mercury’s longest enduring capability, spanning some 30 years, lies
with expertise in the field of embedded processing solutions. Mercury selects
from a range of heterogeneous silicon technologies including Intel®
and Freescale® (PowerPC) multicore processors, in addition to graphical processing units (GPUs). By
playing to the strengths of these respective technologies when applying them to
an embedded processing system, Mercury is able to optimize processing performance
per Watt of power. This in effect translates to extreme savings in terms of
required size, weight, power (SWaP) and even cost. All of these attributes are
critical for any given mobile platform.
The greatest evolution in regards to embedded processing solutions lies
in the advent of multicore processors. Although this affords extreme processing
density, it also contributes to increased complexity. Once again, Mercury’s
legacy solutions in the multi-computer space lend perfectly to the optimization
of multicore technologies into SWaP-constrained platforms by using the latest
in switched fabric interconnect highways. Additionally, Mercury’s software and system
management tools increase development productivity by reducing complexity for
our customers.