Software engineering tool for multicore HPEC embedded computing introduced by GE
Editor's note: GE Intelligent Platforms changed its name to Abaco Systems on 23 Nov. 2015 as a result of the company's acquisition last September by New York-based private equity firm Veritas Capital.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., 5 March 2014. GE Intelligent Platforms announced the Advanced Multiprocessor Integrated Software (AXIS) development environment 6.0 for aerospace and defense software applications.
The AXIS 6.0 software engineering tool provides support for the latest fourth generation Intel Core i7 processors as well as for the most recent multicore processors from Freescale and NVIDIA.
AXIS is designed to speed the development, debugging, optimization, testing and deployment of size, weight and power (SWaP)-sensitive multiprocessor high performance embedded computing (HPEC) systems. AXISPro supports Open MPI to enable developers to run MPI and AXISFlow applications concurrently.
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AXIS provides for application portability and scaling across several processor cores, CPUs, and multi-board systems. The AXISView GUI provides a user interface to create, configure, build, load, run, scale, visualize ,and tune several processes across distributed multi-threaded, multi-core, multi-node platforms.
AXIS also includes the AXISFlow high performance inter-process communication (IPC) middleware that features 42 user APIs offering a lightweight, simple-to-use-library that abstracts data movement from the complexities of the underlying hardware and software drivers. It supports multi-channel data paths between tasks and processors over PCI Express, Ethernet, InfiniBand and other high speed switch fabrics.
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AXISLib provides optimized DSP and math libraries. AXISLib-AVX provides more than 600 hDSP and vector math functions for Intel Core i7 multicore, multithreaded platforms with Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX2); AXISLib-PPC is a performance-optimized DSP library for AltiVec; AXISLib-CL is a DSP library for generic architectures; and AXISLib-GPU facilitates the development of signal processing applications using GE's GPGPU-based architectures.
Contact GE Intelligent Platforms online for more information at http://defense.ge-ip.com.
John Keller | Editor
John Keller is editor-in-chief of Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine, which provides extensive coverage and analysis of enabling electronic and optoelectronic technologies in military, space, and commercial aviation applications. A member of the Military & Aerospace Electronics staff since the magazine's founding in 1989, Mr. Keller took over as chief editor in 1995.
