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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 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 March 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Computational Complexity Single-board and mezzanine-board computers deliver expanded functionality in a reduced size.  |
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 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 September 2008 John McHale |
Faster and faster I/O The U.S. military becomes a more network-centric force each year, relying more and more on the quality of the data it receives from sensors on land, at sea, and in the air.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 Ben Ames |
Contractors balance speed and efficiency in digital signal processing Designers of DSP technology for the military are forced to weight the importance of size, weight, speed, power, and cost.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 John McHale |
FPGAs Enhance Military Signal-Processing Applications Field-programmable gate arrays have become commonplace on signal-processing boards for defense applications such as radar and sonar. The devices promise even more capability down the road, especially in communications technology such as software-defined radio.  |
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 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 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 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 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 March 2010 |
Core i7 Products Intel i7-based computer boards for military, industrial, and telecom applications introduced by Advantech... Rugged 6U VME and CompactPCI computer boards based on Intel Core i7 processor introduced by GE...etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2008 |
VMETRO Introduces Freescale Power Architecture-Based Single-Board Computers The MPE730 is designed for radar, sensor, and signal processing, and the SBC731 is designed for mission and control processing.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2007 John McHale |
FPGAs enable signal processing Field-programmable gate arrays are becoming the choice of systems designers over their longtime preference of digital signal processing hardware.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Keller |
VPX is at the Right Place, at the Right Time, for Serious Market Growth in Embedded Systems It's been a long time in coming, but the market for VPX-based embedded computing is ready to take off.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 John Keller |
Supplier Base for VPX Embedded Computing Begins to Take Shape The market and supplier base for VPX and VPX-REDI single-board computers are emerging, as several companies are stepping forward to provide embedded computing that adheres to VITA-46 and VITA-48 standards.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2008 Tom Litrenta |
Advances in radar processing Single-channel radar systems require many processors to keep up with today's demanding real time I/O requirements. Thus, multicore processors have become an extremely attractive alternative.  |
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 January 2010 John Long |
When High Performance Really Matters in Mil-Aero: A Comparison of ATCA and VPX Solutions ATCA systems are shipping in volume, while VPX is still overcoming interoperability issues.  |
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 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 May 2008 |
Products Martek Power offers high-power, multichannel power modules... Aeroflex offers Battery Electronic Unit family of Li-Ion cell balancing products... Elmo offers board-mounted servo drive with 5 kilowatts continuous power... etc.  |
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 March 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Industry Veterans Advance SBC Technologies for Aerospace Applications Embedded computing companies such as General Micro Systems and Aitech Defense Systems continue to design and develop single-board computers (SBCs) with an eye toward aerospace environments and applications.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 |
VITA maps out future path for VMEbus technology Today, VITA's mission includes not only promoting VMEbus, but also promoting the very concept of open technology as embodied in the many standards currently under development within the VITA Standards Organization.  |
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 July 2004 Ben Ames |
Switched fabrics overtake PCI and VME Ethernet is the early leader in the race to use switched-fabric data buses, although all the leading candidates will probably find their own niches, Joe Pavlat, president of PICMG, said at the Military & Aerospace Electronics East conference in May.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 |
Products Telepresence tactile feedback system... Actuators for unmanned-aerial-vehicle applications... Rugged COTS airborne computer with 3U CompactPCI cards... VME single-board embedded computer... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 |
New products New: Board products... Components... Computers... Connectors... Data buses and networking... Data Recording and Telemetry... Integrated circuits... Imaging and video... Motors and motor control... Power electronics... RF and microwave... Design and development tools... MEMS... Software...  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009 |
Show Products Product highlights for the avionics and military shows in San Diego, June 1-2, 2009.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 Ben Ames |
Military storage designers call for hard drives Disk drives are still getting denser-slowly-but they easily outstrip solid-state for price and capacity.  |
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 February 2005 Ben Ames |
Next-generation airborne radar demands powerful computers The radar on the Air Force Global Hawk UAV will track cars and missiles with a powerful onboard computer from Mercury Computer Systems.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 Ben Ames |
FPGA companies will design supercomputer Over the next two years, the FPGA High Performance Computing Alliance, a group of technology companies and academics, will design and build an FPGA-based super computer capable of achieving processing speeds in excess of one trillion floating-point operations per second.  |
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 December 2005 John Keller |
High-Speed Fabric Backplanes Burst on the Scene in a Data-Hungry World The new generation of high-speed fabric data backplanes represent a fundamental paradigm shift in technology that not only offers dramatic increases in data bandwidth, but also may be as significant as the shift from analog to digital signals.  |
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 March 2005 |
Letters VITA 46: a smart new set of wheels for a proud VMEbus tradition... A different perspective on VITA 46... VMETRO dominates board-based data-recording market... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
A Voracious Need for Vectronics Military end users have an increasing demand for computing and networking performance in packages that are ever smaller, lighter, and more power efficient  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 |
Rack-mount digital-signal processors for ground and air radar These 8- and 21-slot digital signal processing (DSP) systems deliver as much performance as 480 billion floating-point operations per second (giga-FLOPS) in versions that support from 10 to 48 processors.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 Andrew Reddig |
Serial FPDP sensor data link scales up to 20 gigabytes per second The ANSI/VITA 17.1-2003, or serial Front Panel Data Port, allows many applications to use an open standard but still fit within the severe space, weight, and power limitations typically found for imaging focal plane arrays, RF antennas, or other external sensors.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 Bernard Pelon |
Reconnecting with military program requirements for performance and interoperability There is a real risk that switched fabrics with standards-based physical layers will reestablish the traditional vendor lock that is part of too many of today's commercial off-the-shelf solutions.  |
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 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 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 November 2008 |
Curtiss-Wright announces rugged 3U VPX single-board computer The VPX3-127 3U VPX (VITA 46) single-board computer (SBC) is designed for space- and weight-constrained 3U embedded computing applications.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 John McHale |
Software investment key for test and measurement equipment designers Military purchasers of test and measurement equipment, as in other markets, are demanding higher performance at lower costs and with greater ease of use. Outsourcing is one solution that many are turning to more and more.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 Courtney E. Howard |
VMETRO to deliver board-level solutions based on Xilinx Virtex-5 LXT FPGAs VMETRO is developing boards for applications such as electro-optics, electronics warfare, signals intelligence, and telecommunications for the defense, aerospace, and high-performance embedded computing applications.  |