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February 7, 2005
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ATHENA INTRODUCES WORLD'S
FASTEST VIDEO CROSS CORRELATOR
Gainesville, FL - February
7, 2005 - The Athena Group, a provider of high-performance,
low-power signal processing products, announced the immediate
availability of the AVXCOR, a high performance video cross
correlator. Based on Athena's proprietary, industry leading
Fast Fourier Transform technology, the AVXCOR delivers unprecedented
performance for such advanced applications as automated target
recognition, surveillance, and such computationally intensive
applications as visual identification friend-or-foe.
“The AVXCOR represents
a major step forward in real-time image recognition,”
says Dr. Jon Mellott, CTO of the Athena Group. “New threats
demand new technology, and the AVXCOR delivers tremendous
throughput for the toughest image identification applications.
The AVXCOR is engineered for scalability, with performance
to address not only present-day applications but also tomorrow's
applications that are still on the drawing board.”
Athena's proprietary Fast-Fourier
Transform technology is the cornerstone of high performance
solutions in multiple arenas, including both image processing
and communications. Athena FFT technology delivers tremendous
performance with low area and power, bringing feasibility
to applications which were simply too big or power hungry
for single chip implementations in the past. Chosen by industry
leaders such as LSI Logic, Philips Semiconductors, and others,
Athena technology is available as portable IP for implementation
in any library/process.
The
AVXCOR image cross correlator was originally designed as a
small, low-power, extremely fast video cross correlator for
missile seeker applications. The AVXCOR is capable of processing
rates starting at 30 frames per second, with eight cross correlation
surfaces per frame, on a 256x256 image. Implemented with a
scalable architecture, the AVXCOR is scalable to higher frame
rates, more cross correlation surfaces per frame, and larger
images. Suitable for implementation in FPGA, structured ASIC,
or standard cell ASIC technologies, optimized AVXCOR implementations
can meet the demanding performance, form-factor, and power
requirements of next generation video cross correlation applications.
About The Athena Group,
Inc.
The Athena Group, Inc. of Gainesville, Florida licenses signal
processing technology that delivers breakthrough performance,
reduced area, and reduced power consumption in a broad range
of SoC products. Athena technology is ideal for leading edge
applications such as secure e-commerce, wireless communications,
and video compression.
Athena was founded in 1986
and is privately held.
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For information on Athena products,
contact:
Pat Rugg, VP Sales and Marketing
The Athena Group, Inc.
408 W. University Avenue, Suite 306
Gainesville, FL 32601
Phone: (352) 371-2567 ext. 307
Toll-free: (800) 741-7440
Email: prugg@athena-group.com
Internet: www.athena-group.com
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