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Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Computational Complexity Single-board and mezzanine-board computers deliver expanded functionality in a reduced size.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 John Keller	Suppliers of military connectors feel the pressure for increased performance, smaller size, and lighter weight The demand is not only for connecting subsystems, but also for connecting boards and modules inside boxes.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 David Johnson	Let's be Open About COTS Building complex military systems from commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components is a great idea, but does it work?
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Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008	Aitech Introduces C108 Rugged 6U VME Single-Board Computer for New and Legacy Applications The C108 provides numerous I/O capabilities for military embedded applications such as mission management computers, heads-up display controllers, and radar and sonar processors.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 Richard Kirk	Flexible I/O: Meeting the challenge of a standards-based market Increasing standardization, however, is taking place against a backdrop in which customers are ever-more demanding.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2009 Courtney E. Howard	Thinking Inside the Box Systems engineers and technology firms partner to equip mil-aero platforms with innovative enclosures, backplanes, and electronics packaging.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2009 John McHale	Steady as she goes The most promising applications for single-board computer designers continue to be legacy defense VME technology, a common choice among military electronics system integrators.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006 John Keller	Time for a new embedded packaging standard Military technology specifiers and their suppliers in the aerospace and defense industries should come up with a new electronics packaging standard to complement -- and sometimes replace -- the venerable air transport rack described in ARINC 404A.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 Courtney E. Howard	Empowering embedded computing Mainstream, COTS technologies combine with aerospace and defense industry innovations to deliver increased performance in compact electronics designs
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 John McHale	VPX, the Heir to VME, Makes its Debut Embedded-system vendors are releasing their products based on the proposed VITA 46 (VPX) standard, while traditional VME standards such as VME 64 continue to prove profitable. Meanwhile, across the standards aisle, the PICMG MicroTCA standard is creating a buzz in military circles.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 John McHale	Demanding High-Speed I/O Today's complicated military electronics systems require I/O that moves data from sensors to commanders in real time.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2008 Ron Storm	COTS Power Supplies: The Solution or the Starting Point? With the proliferation of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products being offered for military use since the 1990s, it is all too easy to be lulled into believing that COTS products are always the most economical. That is not always true.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004	New Products From the Show New products announced at the 2004 Military & Aeropspace Electronics Show: 3U conduction-cooled CompactPCI single-board computer... Multimedia PMC graphics board... IEEE-1394a&b/FireWire VME board... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004	New Products Universal avionics digital interface... VME card for motor drive power control... VME64 bus-to-bus adapters.. Add-on network-management software for the TCP/IP stack... Self-clinching panel fasteners... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006 John McHale	Advanced I/O Means Ethernet Military designers are excited about the I/O capabilities that 10-Gigabit Ethernet promises to bring to the table.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005	CompactPCI Showing up More and More in Military Designs An interview with the president and chairman of an industry consortium that develops open computer standards for industrial control, instrumentation, military, and communications applications on the growth of the military electronics industry.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007	Curtiss-Wright PowerPC 3U CompactPCI Single-Board Computer Supports PMC I/O The board, available in conduction- and air-cooled versions, uses the Freescale Altivec-enhanced 7448 PowerPC processor, and is for space- and weight-constrained COTS systems for military and aerospace applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009	Products ACT/Technico offers Gigabit Ethernet switches... Adimec offers 2-megapixel camera for unmanned vehicle applications... Aitech introduces Core 2 Duo-based single-board computer for use aboard UAVs... etc.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 J.R. Wilson	Military and Commercial Avionics Draw From the Same Technology Well The increasing imperative for the military to be able to adopt and adapt new technologies has led to a dramatic push for new, avionics-specific industry standards for power, form factors, and interfaces that will apply to military as well as commercial aviation.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 John McHale	Sense of Urgency Among Primes Drives VME Market, While VITE 46 Highlights Company Roadmaps Designers of VME single-board computers for military applications say their market is strong because prime contractors feel pressure to field programs quickly, which forces them to use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 Courtney E. Howard	By Land, by Sea, by Air: Rugged Computers Are Everywhere Military and aerospace organizations around the world tap novel rugged mobile computers for mission-critical applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006	Products Rugged, low power 6U VMEbus board... Fused tantalum capacitors... Multifunction portable flight display for UAV reconnaissance... Molded lenses for long-wavelength infrared imaging...
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 J.R. Wilson	The great cooling dilemma: conduction, convection, or liquid Today's most advanced cooling technologies are starting to take center stage.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005	Dilemma: Databus or switched fabric? Board designers today face a new performance bottleneck: modern processors are so fast that traditional parallel databuses cannot keep them adequately supplied with data to take advantage of their blazing speed.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 John Keller	Temperature's Rising: Designers Face Myriad Options to Cool Electronic Systems More electronic and electro-optic systems mean more electric power, and increasing heat that engineers must get rid of. Today's choices include convection, conduction, and liquid-cooling options. Tomorrow's choices will be more complex.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 Bogdanski & Lamparter	Component and Design Considerations for Extended Product Lifecycles Choosing the right component supplier can be as important as choosing the right component, especially when long-term planning and upgrades are considered, or when special features are required.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 Michael Long	Military Power Systems: Smaller and Smarter Increases in equipment density and the need for an easier maintenance and versatility are causing changes in the designs of chassis and power systems for military electronic systems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2007 John McHale	Thermal-management challenges highlight Military Technologies Conference 2007 U.S. Department of Defense and industry experts to discuss thermal and power management at the Military Technologies Conference (March 27 and 28, 2007) in Boston.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007 John McHale	Customizing to Their Needs Commercial off-the-shelf technologies have streamlined components in defense applications, but some mission-critical situations call for products that must be designed from the ground up to aid war fighters on the battlefield.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010	Avionics Computers for Navy Combat Jets Come From General Dynamics in $30.6 Million Contract Avionics computer systems designers will provide the U.S. Navy with 118 Type 3 advanced mission computers for carrier-based F/A-18 and E/A-18G jet fighter-bomber and electronic warfare aircraft
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2006 Ron Storm	Form-Fit-Function Replacement Power Supplies Breathe New Life Into Old Systems The redesign and manufacture of form-fit-function replacement power supplies present unique and significant opportunities to address any shortcomings in the original design, as well as a chance to improve system performance and reliability.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John Wemekamp	The sea change to serial-switch fabrics As battlefield communications become increasingly distributed and network-centric, a sea change has begun in the design of embedded computing systems for defense and aerospace applications
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010	Themis Introduces CoolShell High-Performance Rugged Blade Server CoolShell rugged server technology combines high-performance, single-board computer and graphics processor in a blade server configuration for rugged systems applications in demanding environments
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 Ben Ames	Rugged Computers Power the Digital Battlefield Troops are pushing rugged computers harder than ever, as manufacturers seek tougher display screens, more reliable hard drives, and faster processors. A major challenge for engineers is to keep pace with fast upgrades in COTS technology.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010	6U VME Computer Boards Based on Freescale QorIQ P4080 Microprocessor Introduced by Curtiss-Wright The computer board provides as many as eight Power Architecture processor cores and data-path acceleration logic, as well as network and peripheral bus interfaces.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010	MEN Micro 3U CompactPCI Embedded Computer Boasts Intel Atom and Onboard FPGA MEN Micro is introducing a 3U CompactPCI single-board computer called the F11S that combines the Intel Atom XL processor with an onboard FPGA for user-defined functions.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 John McHale	Sharing the stage: 10-Gig Ethernet and Serial RapidIO Military designers see Serial RapidIO and 10 Gigabit Ethernet complementing each other in systems today and the near future. Meanwhile Rocket IO in field-programmable gate arrays is exciting board designers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2007 John Keller	Military connector buyers stress small size, light weight, and commercial interfaces Military and aerospace systems integrators today want the best of both worlds -- the benefits of commercial off-the-shelf and the durability and reliability of mil-spec components.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Hot components and cool enclosures Systems architects and integrators are tackling the issues of military electronics survivability with clever chassis designs.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005	Secure front panel I/O connections for demanding applications Acromag's AVME9668 nonintelligent slave board, which interfaces IP modules to the VMEbus is a 6U board that holds four IP modules and makes all field I/O connections through the front panel of the carrier board.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2008 John McHale	Misunderstanding of COTS can hurt the military, says embedded computer expert Commercial off-the-shelf military embedded suppliers have done well in recent years, but many misperceptions still remain about the term COTS and how it affects the final product deployed to troops in the field
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005	Rugged computers get flexible to fit any application Computer makers selling to military and aerospace systems integrators and field users understand the best design method involves modularity to -accommodate a broad range of custom and off-the-shelf needs.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 John Keller	Small Size Helps 3U CompactPCI Single-Board Computers Find Niche in Avionics, Other Military Applications The reasons for the migration to 3U CompactPCI involve the 3U board's relatively small size and weight, its inherent ruggedness, and its advantages in cooling
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2009 Courtney E. Howard	Secure Information Storage Military and aerospace equipment designers have a wealth of options available to fill the ever-increasing need for secure data storage in the field.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 Peter Cavill	COTS: The Reality The prognosis for COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) solutions in the defense market is positive. Where potentially damaging geographical divergences existed, a new unity of vision is becoming apparent.