Processing requirements for multisensor low-cost brilliantmunitions

A generic mission for an autonomous brilliant munition is presented and used to identify the functions that embedded signal processors must perform. Based on these functions and other operational factors such as weather, countermeasures, larger search areas, reduced false alarm rates, and increased munition maneuverability, the processing loads in bits/second messages/second, operations/second, and instructions/second are derived. An evaluation of general implementation issues such as the requirements for data fusion, distributed and parallel processing architectures, reliable software, and low-cost hardware is presented