Embedded Systems Hardware & Software

A major RTI focus has been in real-time embedded systems. RTI has worked with micro-controllers and microprocessors in both Military and Commercial-based systems. This experience has been with Radiation hardened parts, as well as with EMI protected devices. Our personnel have been trained in the procedures and principles involved in handing flight & space quality software and hardware. Our experience also spans many verticals, including Simulator, Submarine, Aircraft and Satellite systems:

  • Hughes - RTI provided software engineering support for the V-22 "full-motion" Simulator. This system was based on a distributed embedded Intel 486 piped-lined microprocessor, and was developed in Ada and hosted on VAX systems. RTI also provided support in the development of Generic Math functions, Radio Systems, and Procedural Monitors on the Controller/Operator's workstation, based on an SGI System.
  • Lockheed Martin Librascope - Overall design and implementation of the Joint Biological Point Detection System (JBPDS) Win95/NT operator display computers, and the embedded Pharlap ETS realtime system (which has components for gathering weather, location and interfacing with the Bio Suite Computer).

Other related efforts include:

  • Hughes Network System - RTI hardware development team provided leads on the AirReach Wireless Point to Multi-Point Networking System. Responsibilities included the design of a Baseband FPGA (Altera 10k100) and a Network Formatter FPGA (Altera 10k30). Systems integration involved integrating the Modem card, Baseband board, and Network cards together as a system, and then get two or more systems to communicate with each other.
  • Visual Networks - RTI did a cost reduction of the Visual UpTime system, the original WAN service level management system, which integrates monitoring capabilities with access equipment to automate the collection, interpretation, and presentation of service level data. This effort involved re-designing the existing board and converting 5 Lattice PLDs, 2 FIFOs, and the functionality of a daughter card, which contained a Motorola MPC360 processor, into 1 Xilinx SP40, 240 pin package.
  • Martin Marietta - TB29 Sonar Array Processor Control Software


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