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Colorado Engineering is Proud Design Partner of Analog Devices, Inc.

The iScan Omega 1 is CEI’s latest and greatest antenna module to take your next radar design to market quickly. Equipped with Analog Devices Inc.’s ADF5901 Tx and ADF5904 Rx downconverter, iScan Omega 1 has plenty of processing power to support a plethora of advanced Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms. The built-in patch antenna has a fixed beam with a FoV of ± 36.5° azimuth and ± 8° elevation. Other features include a reference frequency of 100 MHz, reference sampling capabilities, and a PLL chip. The iScan Omega 1 can be the gateway to your next radar design.

CEI’s iScan Radar Series brings high frequency radar technology to small form factor platforms. Utilizing a modular architecture, iScan processor, expansion, and antenna modules can be mixed and matched to create a customized development platform. The Radar Series features rapid prototype development with customizable optimizations to meet customer specific application requirements. The Series includes 24, 60, and 77 GHz options, and is the perfect solution to significantly decrease cost and time-to-market.

CEI is one of the world’s foremost leading RF and HPC solutions providers offering bleeding-edge technology solutions since 2003 for the commercial, industrial, automotive, and military industries. CEI supplies off the shelf solutions for hardware and software as well as custom-tailored solutions for any application. CEI offers quick turn, innovative solutions, allowing for lower costs, and high-quality designs.

From extensive experience designing and producing cutting-edge RF technology, CEI provides expertise in leading-edge efforts in MOSA applications, reconfigurable RF, THz EM propagation modeling, and associated remote sensing system development. CEI’s facilities are outfitted with sensitive electronics rework stations, an RF anechoic chamber, and test equipment for analysis and troubleshooting frequencies up to 170 GHz. From board layout for innovative automotive radar to software-defined radios to complex, fully integrated radar defense systems, CEI provides a wide range of RF capabilities.

Analog Devices (Nasdaq: ADI) is a leading global high-performance analog technology company dedicated to solving the toughest engineering challenges. They enable their customers to interpret the world around them by intelligently bridging the physical and digital with unmatched technologies that sense, measure, power, connect and interpret. Visit http://www.analog.com to learn more.

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Colorado Engineering using Intel Agilex FPGA in PCIE Development Platform

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Colorado Engineering Inc. (CEI) is one of just a few select companies using samples of the just-released Intel® Agilex™ FPGA in its lower-cost PCIE development platform. CEI also plans to develop appropriate host drivers, specific algorithms, and other associated IP for the board to create a turnkey development platform for  designs based on the Agilex.

Intel Agilex FPGAs provide the flexibility and agility required to meet the challenges of a data-centric, 5G-fueled era by delivering significant gains in performance and inherent low latency. Reconfigurable and with reduced power consumption, Agilex FPGAs have computation and high-speed interfacing capabilities that enable the creation of smarter, higher bandwidth networks and help deliver real-time actionable insights via accelerated artificial intelligence (AI) and other analytics performed at the edge, in the cloud and throughout the network.

CEI’s mixed-signal processing board – the Peregrine II Digital Receiver/Exciter (DREX) – targets 5G SDR applications. Peregrine II incorporates five Intel Stratix® 10 GX FPGAs and an Intel Core i7™ processor mounted on a single-board computer (SBC) module that plugs into a COM Express site on the board. Learn more about the Peregrine II development platform or the upcoming development platform based on the Agilex Stratix 10 FPGAs.

CEI created more than 50 FPGA-based designs for a variety of clients, including Intel and Altera. The small, woman-owned, Colorado-based business has experience in FPGA-based design dating back to the 1980s. Early on, CEI primarily served the military and aerospace sectors, but has since expanded to other markets such as computing and storage, test and measurement, software-defined radio (SDR), and 5G fronthaul applications. CEI specializes in analog or digital applications requiring high-speed, high-performance processing, and turnkey design solutions. CEI is a platinum member of the Intel Design Solutions Network and has several other key industry partnerships. Visit ColoradoEngineering.com to learn more.

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), a leader in the semiconductor industry, is shaping the data-centric future with computing and communications technology that is the foundation of the world’s innovations. The company’s engineering expertise is helping address the world’s greatest challenges as well as helping secure, power and connect billions of devices and the infrastructure of the smart, connected world – from the cloud to the network to the edge and everything in between. Find more information about Intel at newsroom.intel.com and intel.com.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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Colorado Engineering Exploring Robot Self Awareness

Dr. James Crowder, resident artificial intelligence (AI) expert and Colorado Engineering Inc. (CEI) Systems Fellow, is exploring how AI robots develop self-awareness and personal preferences. Crowder’s 23-year-old AI creation named Maxwell developed an affinity for jazz and sunny-side-up eggs. Why jazz and why sunny-side-up? These are the questions Crowder and his daughter, Shelli Friess, a cognitive psychologist, are trying to answer through their research.

The pair have co-authored several books based on these concepts. Even though the fields of AI and psychology are typically opposed, according to Friess, the pair decided to collaborate instead. Their research includes what happens in a human brain at an unconscious level while sleeping to learn more about how machines “think” and develop preferences.

The addition of Dr. Crowder to CEI brings a new level of expertise, combining CEI’s high-performance computing and design expertise with Dr. Crowder’s extensive machine learning, and cognitive systems design experience.  This allows CEI to provide rapid development and deployment of machine learning and artificial intelligence systems to customers, along with the computational horsepower required for government and commercial applications.

Crowder and Friess were recently interviewed on the subject of AI by Scienceline, a student-run online magazine published by the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP) in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. Read the Scienceline article. Crowder and Friess were also recently interviewed by The Consciousness Podcast, a weekly show featuring complex ideas from the world’s experts to “regular” folks interested in amazing minds. Download the podcast.

Founded in 2003 with engineering and production facilities located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, CEI supplies Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) high performance computing hardware and software, as well as tailored solutions, working directly with government agencies and for commercial prime contractors, offering quick turn, innovative solutions with lower cost and higher quality while minimizing risk. CEI leads or partners on new radar systems, software and hardware projects, including leading edge efforts in MOSA applications, reconfigurable RF, THz EM propagation modeling, and associated remote sensing system development. CEI is certified as a women’s business enterprise by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nation’s largest third-party certifier of the businesses owned and operated by women in the U.S. It is also a Platinum Member of Intel’s FPGA Design Solutions Network.

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Dr. James A. Crowder Recognized at 2018 World Congress for Outstanding Achievement

LAS VEGAS (July 30, 2018)  – Dr. James A. Crowder, Systems Fellow at Colorado Engineering Inc. (CEI), received the Outstanding Achievement Award for his research contributions to artificial intelligence and for serving as distinguished speaker at the 2018 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (CSCE’18) event in Las Vegas on July 30, 2018. The award was presented to Dr. Crowder by Dr. Hamid R. Arabnia, Chair of the CSCE 2018 Steering Committee.

Dr. Crowder joined CEI earlier this year. He serves as the expert on artificial intelligence related systems and systems architect. Most recently, he was Senior Principal Systems Engineer at Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services in Aurora, Colo., and Adjunct Professor at Colorado Technical University in Colorado Springs, Colo. Dr. Crowder’s many publications include journals on systems architecture, artificial intelligence and knowledge management; and books on systems engineering, agile project management, artificial cognition architectures and artificial psychology.

CSCE’18 comprised 20 major conferences under the umbrella of the World Congress; the event hosted 122 technical presentations and many panel discussions and keynote addresses. This year’s event included ~1000 participants from 69 different countries and over 160 universities, major corporations, and government research agencies.   The World Congress facilitates communications among researchers in different fields of engineering and computer science.  Crowder has presented and served as keynote speaker and workshop/panel discussion leader for the past 11 years. Visit https://americancse.org/events/csce2018 for more information on CSCE.

CEI, founded in 2003 with engineering and production facilities in Colorado Springs, Colorado, supplies Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) high performance computing hardware and software, as well as tailored solutions, working directly with government agencies and for commercial prime contractors, offering quick turn, innovative solutions with lower cost and higher quality while minimizing risk. CEI leads or partners on new radar systems, software and hardware projects, including leading edge efforts in MOSA applications, reconfigurable RF, THz EM propagation modeling, and associated remote sensing system development. CEI is certified as a women’s business enterprise by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nation’s largest third-party certifier of the businesses owned and operated by women in the U.S. Visit https://coloradoengineering.com for more information on CEI.

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Colorado Engineering Unveils First Dual Intel Stratix 10 FPGA, Warp II, at SC17

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Nov. 14, 2017 — Colorado Engineering, Inc. (CEI) unveiled its First Dual Intel Stratix 10 FPGA, Warp II, at Super Computing 2017 (SC17) in Denver. The WARP II PCIe card delivers up to 136GB DDR4 per FPGA, 100GbE, and programmable OpenCL support to address today’s most challenging data-intense computing problems found in high-density data center and cloud service applications.

“WARP II represents the most advanced, off-the-shelf, PCIe, FPGA compute acceleration card in production,” said Larry Scally, PhD., CEI’s President and Chief Technology Officer. “It delivers the power required to turn big data into actionable intelligence. High performance computing applications like machine learning and cognitive computing can all benefit from the performance gains our WARP II delivers.”

In addition to the dual implementation of Intel’s Stratix® 10 FPGAs, the WARP II supports up to 136GB DDR4 per FPGA and 20 TFLOPS of peak performance (10 TFLOPS per FPGA), making it the most efficient, high performance acceleration card in CEI’s long history of delivering custom hardware, software, sensor, or mechanical design support for the most demanding computing challenges. Learn more about Warp II or contact CEI to purchase.

Founded in 2003 with engineering and production facilities located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, CEI supplies Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) high performance computing hardware and software, as well as tailored solutions, working directly with government agencies and for commercial prime contractors, offering quick turn, innovative solutions with lower cost and higher quality while minimizing risk. CEI leads or partners on new radar systems, software and hardware projects, including leading edge efforts in MOSA applications, reconfigurable RF, THz EM propagation modeling, and associated remote sensing system development. CEI is certified as a women’s business enterprise by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nation’s largest third-party certifier of the businesses owned and operated by women in the U.S. It is also a Platinum Member of Intel’s FPGA Design Solutions Network.

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CEI Teams with U.S. Navy on Radar System for Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter

LAKEHURST, N.J., July 7, 2017 – The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division in Lakehurst, N.J. awarded a $3 million contract to Colorado Engineering Inc. (CEI) last week to design, fabricate and test graphics processing units (GPUs) paired with a supporting processor infrastructure to upgrade radar aboard the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter Block 4 .

The planned Block 4 upgrades to the F-35 – which have an ETA of 2023 – are expected to include adding a wide-area high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) mode to the Northrop Grumman APG-81 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar. The so-called “Big SAR” capability on future versions of the F-35 should be able to produce high-definition radar imagery that covers a large area on the ground in one image to enhance the F-35’s reconnaissance and targeting capabilities.

General-purpose graphics processing (GPGPU) is becoming the cornerstone of digital signal processing in aerospace and defense applications like radar and sonar signal processing, image processing, hyperspectral sensor imaging, signals intelligence, electronic warfare, and persistent surveillance.

The U.S. Navy chose CEI for its radar signal processing expertise. CEI is also experienced in complex circuit board design for military, industrial, and commercial applications, and in the OpenCL software language often used to program GPGPU chips. CEI has established strategic industry partnerships with GPGPU designers NVIDIA and AMD, as well as high-performance general-purpose processor manufacturers Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments.

CEI is certified as a women’s business enterprise by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nation’s largest third-party certifier of the businesses owned and operated by women in the U.S. CEI develops and produces hardware, software and system solution technologies. It was founded in 2003 with engineering and production facilities located in Colorado Springs, Colo.

For more information, visit https://coloradoengineering.com/ or https://www.navair.navy.mil/.