SBIR Phase I: Next Generation Fast Fourier Transform-Based Instrumentation

这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目为诊断系统和科学仪器的物理层设计者面临的根本挑战提供了解决方案。许多这样的仪器目前在频域中监测和分析信号和系统，并几乎用于每一项技术工作。目前，这些系统在速度或面积/功率方面都是受计算限制的。第一阶段的目标是开发一种名为GAUSS的创新仪器技术，该技术将在速度/功率性能方面达到新的标准，并在此过程中支持开发新的和强大的测试和测量产品。使用建议的技术，工程师可以为测试和测量市场快速实现片上系统(SoC)解决方案。作为一种半导体IP技术，GAUSS技术可用于开发高端和嵌入式SoC解决方案。这一强大的设计范例将提供给负责开发未来诊断和仪器产品物理层的设计工程师，这些产品需要不断提高的性能、更低的成本利润和上市时间优势。

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project offers a solution to the fundamental challenge facing the designers of the physical layer of diagnostic systems and scientific instruments. Many of these instruments currently monitor and analyze signals and systems in the frequency domain, and are used in virtually every technical endeavor. Currently these systems are compute-bound, either in speed or area/power. The Phase I aims to develop an innovative instrumentation technology, called GAUSS, that will achieve a new standard in speed/power performance and, in the process, enable the development of new and powerful test and measurement products. Using the proposed technology, engineers can rapidly enable system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for the test and measurement market. Marketed as a semiconductor IP technology, the GAUSS technology can be used to develop both high-end and embedded SoC solutions. This powerful design paradigm will become available to design engineers responsible for developing the physical layer of future diagnostic and instrument products requiring ever increasing performance, lower cost margins, and time-to-market advantages.