SBIR-STTR Award

VLSI (very large scale integration) technology has been developed to the point where special purpose processors may be concatenated to form supercomputers with faster throughput rates than uni-processor machines. Cho, Inc. proposes to design and develop a multi-processor computer architecture for real-time digital filtering of multi-sensor tracking data. The architecture will be optimized for implementation of the decentralized square root information filter (SRIF). Phase I research will demonstrate feasibility of the decentralized SRIF as a means for solving the linear least squares estimation problem in decentralized form. Phase II research will focus upon development and testing of a prototype device.