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Enator Telub AB, the system solutions subdivision of the Enatory Group in Sweden, brings air traffic control, combat control and marine surveillance system technology to the PC. COBRA, Enator Telub 's revolutionary radar transmission system, can digitize and send radar video over a 64-kbit connection for full-color display in a Windows NT™ environment.

COBRA provides an ideal, cost-effective solution for implementing and maintaining remote radar sites. Precision Digital Images (PDI), a leading manufacturer of image capture and processing products, provided a solution based on TMS320C80 DSPs to help Enator Telub consolidate the power and functionality of entire mainframe systems into plug-in boards for the PC.

PDI 's Precision MX Video Engine offers powerful graphic display and processing capabilities that enable radar transmission and real-time presentation of broadband radar video in a PC system. Enator Telub also created a computationally intensive algorithm designed to extract and locate targets from the radar video. This image analysis algorithm allows COBRA to display the extracted plots over the broadband radar video and send them to other radar presentation systems.

"We had already decided to use the 'C80 in our design since it gives the performance in PC systems that previously required special designated hardware," said Henrik Engstrom, system developer for COBRA. "The Precision MX was our first choice because of its graphics capabilities. It has proven easy to implement our design because of the tight integration between the Precision MX and Windows NT."