Founded in 1995, RPA has been providing platforms for solving complex, real-time problems since our inception.
Our first contracts included :
developing an FPGA timing controller for an industrial video camera family
adapting an existing multi-FPGA design for RADAR simulation to generate timing signals for displaying video on a rotating sweep (R, theta) display
adapting a customer's TI 320 series DSP product for the PCI platform
Following those initial designs, we teamed with Alex Computer Systems (Ithaca, NY) to develop a line of Analog Devices SHARC DSP products, marketed under the Alex name. In a 2-1/2 year span with Alex, RPA designed and produced 28 different SHARC products including :
PCI Motherboards
VME Motherboards
Multi-Processing SHARCPAC Modules
Video Display SHARCPAC Module
SCSI Interface SHARCPAC Module
1553 Interface SHARCPAC Module
200 MS/sec ADC SHARC VME Board
And many others…
This product line was later sold to Spectrum Signal Processing (Vancouver, Canada). RPA still supports and produces many of these products for Spectrum.
With the volume of business involving programmable logic development that RPA was performing, we launched our Flexible I/O (FIO) board product line. We found a need for maximum flexibility with common I/O platforms, such as PCI, in a majority of the designs we encountered. The Flexible I/O products provided us with a base solution to build upon, rather than reinventing the interface hardware and software for each development task. RPA and our customers have designed FIO products into control and interface systems for :
Video Acquisition
Video Camera Control
Multi-channel Audio Data Acquisition and Control
Optically Phased Array Control
Industrial Equipment Control
And many others…
RPA has been serving the simulation community since our inception. Our founders' expertise was in image generation for both visual and RADAR scenes, giving us a unique perspective on real-time processing requirements for mission critical applications. We have been contracted to create custom video and image processing solutions for :
Image Generation
Image Post Processing
Sensor Simulation
Scan Rotation
Format Conversion
Image Manipulation
Calligraphic Video Manipulation
RADAR Video Processing
Our recent award of a NAVAIR SBIR contract (see News at RPA) to develop an image processing engine to enhance the performance of some IGs is a natural extension of our expertise in this area.
RPA has recently developed a Genlock solution for nVIDIA based graphics cards for the simulation community. The system is graphics card vendor independent, allowing user's to take advantage of the latest technology at any given time. See our system level Products page for more details.