COASTSYSTA Dahlgren Division, NSWC, 6703 West Highway 98, Panama City, FL 32407-7001

70 -- EMBEDDED REAL TIME COMPUTING SYSTEM SOL N61331-96-Q-JM04 POC John Miller, Contract Specialist, (904)235-5399 Carol A. Dreger, Contracting Officer, (904)234-4863. This is a sources sought annoucnement only. A solicitation will not be issued as a result of this announcement. A new CBD announcement will be published if a solicitation is developed. The Technology Demonstration Office of the Coastal Research and Technology Department, Code 10T2, is seeking sources and information for the design of an embedded real-time computing system. This system will be used in a technology demonstration and will perform all necessary data processing for different multiple sensor suite packages. Specific processing functions for the sensor suite packages include beamforming, motion compensation, image enhancement, pattern recognition, data compression, and other typical linear algebra and signal and image processing functions. During the technology demonstration, when a sensor suite package is exchanged for another sensor suite package, the embedded system will have different software loaded to reconfigure the input/output ports and to handle the necessary processing algorithms for that sensor package. The design philosophy is that the system should be easily reconfigured with respect to processing requirements, memory requirements, and input/output requirements. The system needs to be usable connected to an external computer workstation for development purposes as well as a stand-alone system in its embedded configuration. The system's salient features are: 1) Size, Weight, Power, and Heat Constraints - The system needs to fit entirely within a sealed, aluminum (1/2 inch wall thickness), cylindrical pressure vessel of 17 inch inside diameter and 36 inch length. The pressure vessel will be placed in a free-flooded submersible towbody in contact with sea water. The system, not including the pressure vessel, should weigh less than 330 pounds. The system should require less than 1000 Watts of power and be able to transfer the heat load through convection cooling. 2) Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) - The system needs to be designed using COTS components (as much as possible) using an industry standard bus. This will allow for ease of repair, replacement, lower cost, and expansion. This will also allow for integration of third-party boards as needed. 3) Minimum Compute Capabilities - The system needs to have an aggregate compute capacity of at least 10,000 MFLOPS (million floating point operations per second). This requirement is based on an algorithm estimate of 2,500 MFLOPS and an execution efficiency of 25%. The system also needs to be able to execute at minimum two separate data streams at 5,000 MFLOPS. 4) Minimum Memory Capabilities - The system needs to have a combination of local and global memory capacity of at least 2,000 MB (megabytes). This requirement is based on a minimum need of 1,000 MB and allowing for growth. 5) Minimum External Input/Output Capabilities - The system needs to have eight 100 Mb/s (megabits/second) input/output ports. Current requirements are four 100 MB/s input ports and four other slower output ports. 6) Minimum Internal Input/Output Capabilities - The system needs to be able to support industry standard COTS interfaces such as SCSI-2, FDDI, etc. There may be a need for local disks for storage of system and application software. In addition to processing the data, there is also a need to record some of the raw sensor data, either to tape drives or disk drives. 7) Modularity in Computer Power, Memory, and I/O - The system needs to be easily reconfigurable and expandable in the number of compute nodes; the amount of local and global memory; and the number of input/output ports (both internal and external). 8) Networking - the System needs to have the capability to tie into a communications network for the purpose of loading new software and for development and testing purposes. It is planned that while a sensor package is being exchanged, new software can be loaded into the system; recorded data can be transferred to another medium; and the system can have diagnostics run without having to open the pressure vessel. 9) Operating System - The system needs to execute a real-time operating system with a UNIX type operating and development programming environment preferred. 10) Language Support - The system needs to support the C language, the FORTRAN language, and a complete software development environment including software tools to allow efficient programming of specialized hardware. 11) Diagnostic Software - The system needs to be provided with dagnostic software to verify the correct operation of hardware and to simplify repair/replacement of defective hardware. The software should be executable while the system is in the pressure vessel as well as in the laboratory. 12) Training - Training needs to be available to support the hardware and specialized software packages used on the system. All aspects of operation and use of the system needs to be covered in the training. 13) Programming Support - Vendors needs to be able to provide assistance in porting of algorithms to the embedded system. It has not been decided if programming will be performed entirely in-house or a mix between in-house and vendor. At a minimum, on-site programming expertise by vendor is needed. Send technical information to: John H. Miller III/Contract Specialist, CSS Code SC12, Coastal Systems Station, 6703 West Highway 98, Panama City, FL 32407-7001, Voice (904)235-5399 or Fax (904)234-4251. The Technical Point of Contact is: Gary Bills, CSS Code 130A, Coastal Systems Station, 6703 West Highway 98, Panama City, FL 32407-7001, Voice (904)235-5307, Fax (904)235-5374, BILL@ATCF.NCSC.NAVY.MIL. (0082)

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