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April 27, 2011

Mercury Computer Systems Inks Strategic Agreement with CommAgility

Mercury Computer Systems, a provider of open, application-ready, multi-INT subsystems for the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) market, signed a strategic agreement with CommAgility, a manufacturer of signal processing AMC modules for wireless baseband applications, to enable the company to develop best-in-class application-ready subsystems for commercial and military communications, and wireless infrastructure systems.

As per the terms of this agreement, Mercury will incorporate CommAgility and jointly-developed products into its existing platforms and to quickly generate new solutions that exploit the latest Texas Instruments’ (News - Alert) Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology.

“CommAgility’s history of developing embedded signal processing and TI DSP-based products closely aligns with our expertise in signal processing and high-bandwidth data plane subsystem integration strategy,” Didier Thibaud, senior vice president and general manager of Mercury Computer Systems’ Advanced Computing Solutions business unit said in a press release.

“This collaborative relationship reflects Mercury’s long-standing commitment to deliver new technology and unique application value to our customers,” Thibaud added.

The agreement is believed to combine the strengths of both companies – Mercury’s leadership in high performance signal and image processing and open, ARS solutions – with CommAgility’s leadership in the embedded DSP board industry.

“Mercury has demonstrated an unrivaled ability to deliver customized, integrated platform solutions that leverage best-of-breed technology to optimize performance and value, and these are a natural fit with our high-performance DSP and FPGA board-level products,” said Edward Young, managing director at CommAgility in a statement.

“We are proud to work with Mercury to provide their customers with access to the DSP technology needed for advanced communications applications,” Young added.

With more than twenty five years of experience in embedded computing, superior domain expertise in radar, EW, EO/IR, C4I, and sonar applications, and more than 300 successful program deployments, Mercury Computer Systems been leading the industry in partnering with customers to design and integrate system-level solutions that minimize program risk, maximize application portability, and accelerate customers’ time to market.

Mercury was recently chosen to deliver a SWaP-optimized hyperspectral image processing and storage subsystem for multi-INT wide area surveillance equipment used on unmanned aerial vehicles.



Jai C.S. is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Jai's articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Jennifer Russell
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