Software and Hardware

Primary Radar, Video and Graphics

David G JohnsonCambridge Pixel

Radar video Graphics and Video

A specialist technology-provider based in the UK and partnered with Tech Source Inc, Orlando, FL.

Design and manufacture of hardware and software components for sensor video capture, distribution, tracking and display.

Provide cost-effective radar upgrades using low-cost COTS hardware and networking.

Serving military command and control, commercial shipping and security markets

Selected Customers and Applications

BAE System, UK Royal Navy – T-45 Destroyers and QEC Carriers

Raytheon – SPS-73 Upgrade (US Navy, US Coastguard)

US Navy AEGIS ShipsFrontier Electronic Systems

Kelvin Hughes, Plextek, Navtech partnerships

Radar Solutions

Radar capture hardware Radar Processing Scan Conversion Compression + Distribution AIS receipt, record, display Record and Replay Primary Radar Tracking

Provide software components (middleware) and solutions to permit system integrators to build solutions

SPx Server

Radar Processor• Receives primary video• Process• Local display + recording• Network distribution• Target tracking• AIS + track fusion• Windows or Linux

A flexible software structure supports a ready-to-run server application or a toolkit of software processing components

RadarViewRadar Visualisation

Radar capture from PCI input card Primary radar – multiple windows PPI/B-Scan display A-Scan AIS display Primary track display Record and replay Radar configuration tools Underlay map from world data base Static or moving platform applications

Video Solutions Video capture

• Tech Source Condor VC100x• Matrox frame grabbers

Video Compression Network Distribution Monitoring, status reports Decompression (GPU) Record and Replay Display compositing

• Overlays, underlays etc

Provide software components (middleware) to permit system integrators to build solutions

Radar and Video Display

Software solutionsGPU accelerated presentationCost-effective (PC hardware, XMC/PCI grabbers)Turn-key solutionsSoftware development libraries (middleware)

Cambridge Pixel and SPx

Summary

An engineering-oriented business providing products, expertise and high-quality engineer-to-engineer support

SPx Software libraries and turn-key solutions for:• Radar scan conversion, compression and

distribution, plot extraction and target tracking, video capture and distribution.

Performance & Value: Low-cost COTS processing

Extensible and Open: Software can be expanded and customised.