HiTECH HiDEC Jeff Mincy, scientific research technician, loads a multichip module into the ultrasound chamber to test the interconnects.
Many HiDEC projects are prototypes to demonstrate proof of concept.
Once a project is defined, a multidisciplinary team is assembled to work on it. As the program progresses, other faculty may be brought in to tackle parts of the problem. Currently, processing that much data might take a system the size of a refrigerator. Creating a smaller device would allow it to be mobile and installed in places like fighter planes, where space is limited, or the International Space Station, where both size and weight are critical. A pilot could have immediate access to images, for example, rather than having to transmit the data for further processing elsewhere.