Signal Processing System Example
- High-performance in small volume
  - 1 GFLOPS, 1 Gb/sec I/O, 32-128 MB RAM
  - Many high-speed DSP processors
  - High speed bus/switch interconnects
  - Software tuned for high performance
  - Tens to hundreds of units sold
  - Very high development costs ($20M - $100M)
  - 15-30 year lifetime
- Real-life systems:
  - Synthetic aperture Radar (SAR)
  - Sonar
  - Real-time video
  - Medical Imaging