Software and Hardware
Primary Radar, Video and Graphics
David G Johnson
Cambridge Pixel
Radar video
Graphics and Video




A specialist technology-provider based in the
UK and partnered with Tech Source Inc,
Orlando, FL.
Design and manufacture of hardware and
software components for sensor video
capture, distribution, tracking and display.
Provide cost-effective radar upgrades using
low-cost COTS hardware and networking.
Serving military command and control,
commercial shipping and security markets
Selected Customers and Applications




BAE System, UK Royal Navy – T-45
Destroyers and QEC Carriers
Raytheon – SPS-73 Upgrade (US
Navy, US Coastguard)
US Navy AEGIS Ships
Frontier Electronic Systems
Kelvin Hughes, Plextek, Navtech
partnerships
Radar Solutions







Radar capture hardware
Radar Processing
Scan Conversion
Compression + Distribution
AIS receipt, record, display
Record and Replay
Primary Radar Tracking
Provide software components (middleware)
and solutions to permit system integrators to
build solutions
SPx Server

Radar Processor
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Receives primary video
Process
Local display + recording
Network distribution
Target tracking
AIS + track fusion
Windows or Linux
A flexible software structure supports a
ready-to-run server application or a toolkit
of software processing components
RadarView
Radar Visualisation










Radar capture from PCI input card
Primary radar – multiple windows
PPI/B-Scan display
A-Scan
AIS display
Primary track display
Record and replay
Radar configuration tools
Underlay map from world data base
Static or moving platform applications
Video Solutions

Video capture
•
•






Tech Source Condor VC100x
Matrox frame grabbers
Video Compression
Network Distribution
Monitoring, status reports
Decompression (GPU)
Record and Replay
Display compositing
•
Overlays, underlays etc
Provide software components
(middleware) to permit system integrators
to build solutions
Radar and Video Display
Software solutions
GPU accelerated presentation
Cost-effective (PC hardware, XMC/PCI grabbers)
Turn-key solutions
Software development libraries (middleware)
Cambridge Pixel and SPx
Summary




An engineering-oriented business providing
products, expertise and high-quality engineer-toengineer support
SPx Software libraries and turn-key solutions for:
•
Radar scan conversion, compression and
distribution, plot extraction and target tracking,
video capture and distribution.
Performance & Value: Low-cost COTS processing
Extensible and Open: Software can be expanded
and customised.