BBN Technologies

The Signal Processing Engine (SPE™) and Display Programming Environment (DPE™) ToolKit™ is the solution for creating custom in-house, multi-channel, real-time signal processing, analysis, automation, and display applications.

The SPE/DPE ToolKit is a dynamic and extensible object-oriented, open development environment that provides a solid infrastructure for the creation of real-time systems. It provides significant benefits over traditional solutions. The SPE/DPE ToolKit enables in-house development and maintenance of sophisticated, custom, multi-channel real-time systems for automating monitor, analysis, control, and operator display functions in radar, sonar, seismic, or industrial process control applications.

SPE/DPE ToolKit™ Benefits:

• Reduces risk and maintenance costs by allowing customer development of real-time process control using in-house plant or system engineering talent supplemented by a minimal programming staff
• Eliminates reliance on an outside "systems house"
• Provides the in-house developer with the flexibility to design the system to meet the needs of the customer organization
• Provides transparent, robust, real-time control & display infrastructures
• Eliminates developer time spent on solving esoteric, real-time infrastructure issues or learning a complex proprietary system
• Based on a reusable, scalable, object-oriented software technology
• Uses an efficient real-time operating kernel based on open system standards
• Supports Windows NT, VxWorks, or UNIX operating environments using Pentium, SPARC, SHARC, PowerPC, or i860 processors; additional operating environments supported pending customer requirements

BBN's SPE/DPE ToolKit™ consists of two parts:

• The Signal Processing Engine (SPE™) addresses real-time signal processing
• The Display Programming Environment (DPE™) manages the real-time operator interface

Based on Open Systems software standards and a parallel processing approach, these components provide a powerful, flexible, software architecture for the rapid development of high-throughput, real-time signal processing, information processing, and interactive display functions.