Technology Selection
Choosing the Best Combination for Your Unique Application
Our long-term relationships with chip manufacturers, fabric and I/O standards bodies, and chassis suppliers gives us the objectivity to help you select the best combination of processors, fabrics, and I/O in the most appropriate form factor for your application. Whether you need an embedded solution, highly customizable modules, or a single-board computer, we can help you address your most challenging technology requirements.
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Processor Selection
Do accelerators such as FPGAs, GPUs, and Cell BE processors compete or complement multicore processors from Freescale, Intel, or others? |
We off-loaded data-intensive functions to an FPGA-based digital receiver to relieve the PowerPCs, while decreasing the cost of the overall system.
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Fabric Selection
How do you weigh the strengths of RapidIO and PCI Express? Is Gigabit Ethernet a fit for your application, or should you look at InfiniBand? |
Our cost-effective, scalable, fabric-based solution with support for proprietary I/O replaced a bus-based system that was running out of bandwidth and introducing unacceptable latency.
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Form Factor Selection
How do you balance the many trade-offs – modularity, performance, size, cost, and ruggedness – when considering what form factor to use? |
Mercury worked with our customer to design a sophisticated ATCA solution that pushed the envelope of the ATCA standard.
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I/O Selection
Can 10 Gigabit Ethernet solve your latency and bandwidth problems, or do you need a sensor-specific interface like serial FPDP or Cameralink? |
Mercury designed an innovative system with a heterogeneous mix of fabrics for control, data, and I/O.
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