Real-time sonar beamforming on workstations using process networks and POSIX threads

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 921-926

  Allen, Gregory E ^a   Evans, Brian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MULTIPROGRAMMING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MULTIPROCESSOR PROGRAMMING; NATIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING; PORTABLE OPERATING SYSTEM INTERFACE THREADS; PROCESS NETWORKS; REAL TIME SONAR BEAMFORMING;

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0033907270     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.824694     Document Type: Article

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