Electronic warfare digital signal processing on COTS computer systems with reconfigurable architectures

Commercial off-the-shelf computer systems with reconfigurable architectures have recently become available. Some of these machines have architectures, features, and software development environments that seem to make them useful for digital signal processing, especially in electronic warfare and radar signal processing applications. This paper describes experiments to evaluate the architecture, features, software development environment, and performance of one such computer, the SRC Computers model SRC-6e, using an electronic warfare signal processing application.