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CONVENTIONAL MILITARY AND COMMERCIAL AVIONICS Achieving high-performance graphics and optimal energy efficiency for conventional military and commercial avionics ™ systems with AMD Embedded Radeon E8860 GPUs Leading avionics technology providers CoreAVI and Curtiss-Wright leverage AMD Embedded Radeon™ graphics and open standards to bring ultra-immersive displays and precision visualization into the cockpit. For graphics-intensive conventional systems are increasingly transitioning military and commercial avionics away from FPGA and DSP platforms applications, every incremental gain in in favor of more versatile, higher- graphics processing performance helps performing embedded GPUs. These unlock new potential for improving are optimized to handle high-speed responsiveness and situational multimedia processing as well as the awareness for pilots and UAV operators. massive parallel processing required New advancements in synthetic vision for tasks like radar processing, object and video overlay capabilities – made recognition, 3-D mapping and video possible in part through continued manipulation. innovation in GPU architectures – hold the promise to transform modern These high-performance avionics aircraft control panels and displays. applications are, of course, sensitive to Photo-realistic 3-D graphics clarity in the the acute power consumption constraints cockpit enhances pilots’ understanding that characterize most airborne vessels. of flying environments in real time. This In an operating environment with a finite yields clear advantages in commercial power budget, enabling maximum energy air transport and