XL SCIENTIFIC LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N211-091

XL SCIENTIFIC LLC — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

Amount
$139,927
Agency
Department of Defense · Navy
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
Topic
N211-091
Solicitation
21.1
NAICS
Place of performance
NM
Period
2021-07-06 → 2022-01-18

Description

Verus Research proposes to develop a real-time radio-frequency environment generator suitable for hardware in the loop (HWIL) testing of RF imaging / guidance & navigation systems, using a combination of high-performance Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) hardware and software models to create a real-time simulation environment. The simulation models will utilize the NVIDIA OptiX ray-tracing engine for generation of ray-paths within the complex scene, combined with novel methods for cluttered background return and backscatter from target models using Physical Optics (PO) implemented on GPU. Using a hardware architecture centered around the GPU will allow for simplicity and expansion to GPU clusters to meet the required real-time processing speed.