Gigabit Per Second Processing for the AdEPT Telescope

Support the on-board, real time, memory intensive processing of the Gb/s data stream of the Advanced Energetic Pair Telescope (AdEPT) instrument.
AdEPT is a high sensitivity medium-energy (5-200 MeV) gamma-ray telescope that will ultimately consist of eight, Three-Dimensional Track Imager (3-DTI) modules.
The raw 3-DTI data stream must be processed on-board in real time to extract the gamma-ray science data.
The raw data stream is produced at a rate of 0.2 Gb/s up to 2.5 Gb/s depending on the size of the 3-DTI module.
The figure to the right is a graphical representation of the on-board processing needed to reduce the raw data to science data.

Build on the experience of FY12 Goddard Cross-Cutting R&D work to develop optimized software to support the detector's increasing channels and data rate processing requirements, from 512 channels at 0.2 Gb/s to 1536 channels at 0.5 Gb/s to ~5000 channels at 2.5 Gb/s.
Port and optimize the existing AdEPT streaming mode software using the Tilera Encore system.
Use AESOP, an autoparallelizing compiler for shared memory computers, being developed by the University of Maryland to aid in parallel processing.
Generate realistic input test data