TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY HIGH PERFORMANCE IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS Sandia National Laboratories has developed advanced hardware and systems solutions for Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) applications. These systems consist of a combination of commercial and Sandia developed custom image processing hardware. Sandia has developed custom systolic hardware to address computational throughput bottlenecks that could not be addressed economically with commercially available hardware in these real-time systems. The hardware, software and system solutions developed surpasses the throughput of commercially available resources by a significant amount but are compatible with industry standards. In accordance with technology transfer legislation and to more efficiently leverage commercial industry, Sandia is seeking to team with industry to develop a commercially compatible system solution, including hardware, software and operating environment based upon our current technology. The anticipated result of this teaming of National Laboratory engineering talent with commercial companies is to develop, build and qualify hardware and software for our challenging ATR applications is a system with enhanced performance that benefits both commercial and defense applications. A number of innovative features have been developed over several generations of 6U VME module processor designs that may be of interest for commercialization. The VME processing modules that have been developed include binary and gray-scale correlators, multi-channel image storage modules, and high bandwidth module to module Time Domain Cross-bar (TDX) pixel communication technology. These innovative features are available for licensing and the developed design expertise is available for teaming with industry for the purpose of commercialization of this technology. Expertise in the development and integration of high performance image processing architectures and systems based upon this technology is also available. Commercialization is important for military programs because volume commercial application will reduce costs, mature the technology, and provide market pull for new developments in the field. It is anticipated that the industrial partner(s) would manufacture and test the systolic hardware, provide an operating environment for application development, maintain customer hardware and software application support, and leverage the development of this partnership for commercial and military applications. Sandia is committed to developing industrial partnerships through a number of mechanisms including licensing of intellectual property, cooperative research and development agreements and small business assistance programs. Industrial partners interested in this technology transfer opportunity should contact Sandia's Technology Transfer Office. For additional information write to Kay Carter, Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185-1380, FAX: 505-271-7867. For technical information contact: K. Terry Stalker, Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185-0843, phone: 505-844-8143, FAX: 505-844-4157, cmail:ktstalk@sandia.gov.

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