Difference between Chimaera and non-HWIL product offerings
Chimaera is a hardware/software product specifically designed for Hardware-In-The-Loop (HWIL) testing of sensors and seeker UUTs.
- Guaranteed hard real-time frame rates/latencies for large area, high complexity databases
- ATPs with digital measurement equipment for proving HWIL performance
- Various USG/GFE model plugins (MuSES, TAITherm, SPIRITS, SPR, SIRRIM, SPURC, E-MSIG, E-HSIG, MSIC, FIRE, FLITES)
- Physics-based plumes, jet and rocket
- Advanced BRDF support
- Spatial and temporal super-sampling for sources (point-source and fast temporal sources)
- 16 and 24-bit calibrated radiance-gray level calibrated output, w/multi-channel encoding.
- Advanced 3D noise
- Optical distortion / Zemax plugin
- Aerodynamic window heating
- Customizable nonlinear radiance calibration & bit depth setting
- DIU and COTS IRSP support
- Real-time OS
- Zoom window target supersampling
- Synchronized multi-channel capability
- Automated setting of custom resolutions and frame rates
- Wide selection of color mapping modes