Filtered backprojection and FPGAs

David Pointer at SRC Computer on the use of FPGAs for Filtered Backprojection (FBP), a critical component of medical imaging and other domains:
“Projecting” images in radar and medical applications

FPGAs for self-healing computer systems

Interesting news story out of the University of Arizona:
UA Researchers Create Self-Healing Computer Systems for Spacecraft
The article describes how FPGAs can be deployed for critical space applications, in which hardware/software flexibility must be balanced against performance requirements. According to Dr. Ali Akoglu, FPGAs are compelling because of their inherent parallelism and because of their potential [...]

Spacecraft image processing gets a boost

Here’s a cool article by one of our users, Paula Pingree at Jet Propulsion Laboratories:
Developing FPGA Coprocessors for Performance-Accelerated Spacecraft Image Processing
(Gosh, this stuff really is rocket science.)