GSI Technology’s NRT SAR Image Processing Acceleration System Approved for use by IAI/ELTA
September 27 2022 - 5:30AM
GSI Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: GSIT), developer of
the Gemini® Associative Processing Unit (APU) for AI and
high-performance parallel computing (HPPC) and a leading provider
of high-performance memory solutions for the networking,
telecommunications and military markets, today announced that its
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image processing acceleration system
using GSI’s APU technology has been approved for use by IAI/Elta
System Ltd, a subsidiary of Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI).
“We are pleased to be selected by IAI/Elta, Israel’s leading
provider of innovative defense and space technology, for use of GSI
Technology’s SAR image acceleration system,” said Dr. Avidan
Akerib, Vice President, Associative Computing Business Unit at GSI
Technology. “This prestigious recognition of our solution’s
capabilities showcases the technological superiority of our APU and
opens new opportunities to the field of accelerating SAR image
formation.”
GSI has developed a SAR image processing acceleration system
using GSI’s APU technology and has delivered the first system to
IAI/Elta. The GSI system passed all IAI/Elta’s requirements
including quality, accuracy and performance tests, and has been
approved to use.
The scalable APU architecture allows expanding to multiple
boards on servers for added performance and redundancy without
specialized links. The APU platform has the capability to stack
servers together and bring near real-time capability to
time-consuming, compute-intensive processes. GSI has shown in
comparisons for a large area SAR image processed in one second at
high resolution scenarios that the APU uses, on average, 88% less
power than CPU or GPU systems by using one tenth the number of
servers. Further, the GSI solution used in this comparison is small
enough to be installed on fixed-wing flight platforms.
GSI’s APU technology is ideal for SAR observation missions
needing near real-time solutions and higher processing power that
use the Fast Back Projection (FBP) algorithm. FBP is considered by
SAR experts as the ideal algorithm for forming SAR image data,
permitting optimal results (quality and accuracy), high ground
resolution at various ranges (hundreds of meters to hundreds of
kilometers), various frequencies and supporting any kind of SAR
sensor carrying platform.
Prohibitive costs and power usage due to the high computational
requirements of running the FBP algorithm on a CPU or GPU has
previously limited its usage. With its significantly higher
processing speed, high accuracy, and lower power usage, GSI’s APU
chip architecture enables the usability of the FBP algorithms
for a variety of platform use cases from onboard UAV and
Satellite to Data Center applications.
GSI’s APU SAR processing system reduced the processing time from
a few minutes to a few seconds, significantly shortening the
customer’s delivery time (images and data). The APU also offers
onboard processing capabilities and substantially lower computing
costs.
ABOUT GSI TECHNOLOGY
Founded in 1995, GSI Technology, Inc. is a leading provider of
semiconductor memory solutions. The Company recently launched
radiation-hardened memory products for extreme environments in
space and the Gemini® Associative Processing Unit (APU), a
memory-centric design that delivers significant performance
advantages for diverse AI applications. The Gemini APU architecture
removes the I/O bottleneck between the processors and memory arrays
by performing massive parallel search directly in the memory array
where data is stored. The novel architecture delivers
performance-over-power ratio improvements compared to CPU, GPU, and
DRAM for applications like image detection, speech recognition,
e-commerce recommendation systems, and more. Gemini is an ideal
solution for edge applications with a scalable format, small
footprint, and low power consumption where rapid, accurate
responses are critical. For more information, please visit
www.gsitechnology.com.
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based on our in-place associative computing technology and the
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