Crossfield Technology is adept at integrating diverse technologies to create new products and opportunities. Our scientists and engineers span the boundary between basic research and product engineering to apply emerging technologies to challenging problems.
Innovation at Crossfield Technology means discovering a radical new way to solve an old problem or to address a new opportunity. The innovation may encompass a new algorithm, an advanced semiconductor, a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS), a high-speed network, embedded software or an ultra-low-power wireless sensor. All are examples of technologies that can dramatically impact the size, performance, power consumption and portability of a system.
Crossfield’s instrumentation solutions include novel communications for heterogeneous computing clusters for parallel signal processing and real-time simulation. Crossfield’s multipath RDMA technology has been demonstrated on heterogeneous computing platforms that incorporate AMD Opterons, IBM PPC G5s. and IBM Cell Broadband Engines interconnected through an Ethernet network, with portions of the network operating at 10 Gbps. The heterogeneous processors exchange algorithm data through a Message Passing Interface (MPI).
At the other end of the spectrum, Crossfield develops wireless instrumentation platforms for harsh environment sensor data acquisition. Crossfield’s wireless and Power-Over-Ethernet instrumentation platforms include a precision analog-to-digital converter to capture the output of strain, temperature, acceleration and other types of sensors. Sensor data captured and stored in a non-volatile memory can be retrieved through wireless networks using ZigBee™ networking protocols or through a standard USB port. Both wireless and PoE instrumentation platforms can be controlled through National Instruments LabView®.