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Real-Time Embedded Systems (RTES) Solutions
Advanced signal and image processing
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QinetiQ has a centre of excellence for real-time digital signal processing design and development.

Over the last decade,QinetiQ has been active in developing high-performance real-time digital signal processing solutions to support a wide range of QinetiQ projects, in the fields of:

  • Sensor processing for Radar, Sonar, IR, and Electro-optic systems
  • Instrumentation
  • Communications
  • Array, image and medical processing
  • Electronic surveillance and countermeasures


More recently, as QinetiQ has expanded into commercial markets, it has continued to provide its design services for commercial product development.

The core work is the development and delivery of high performance embedded hardware, FPGA firmware and Embedded software solutions, into the products of our customers, with experience of delivering into both high volume commercial products and high-performance military systems.

Recent examples of this work include:

The development of an FPGA based data acquisition and processing system for a novel radar target simulator.
The development of the data acquisition system for QinetiQ’s Tarsier™ runway debris monitoring radar.
The design and programming of a processing system for a high speed wireless transceiver system for LastMile Communications Ltd.
Real-time phased array radar processing for QinetiQ’s hardware in the loop demonstration of an innovative phased array missile seeker.


High performance Signal processing IP

QinetiQ has an extensive portfolio of high performance signal processing IP, which can be leveraged to develop processing solutions at the lowest risk. An example of this IP portfolio is the range of FPGA firmware cores for:
  • FFT’s
  • QR decomposition for adaptive beamforming
  • FIR filters
  • Digital receivers
  • Floating point co-processors
  • Floating point arithmetic operations
  • Standards based inter-processor communications (Fibre channel, Gigabit Ethernet, Infiniband)
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Supporting information
> Advanced FPGA systems enable real-time adaptive beamforming for phased array radar, published in the US Air-Force Research Labs Magazine Jan 06. [PDF]
> Real-time adaptive beamforming – FPGA implementation using QR decomposition, published in the US Journal of Electronic Defence, Sept 06. [PDF]
> Swathbuckler Wide Area SAR Processing Front End [PDF]
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