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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 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 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 March 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Computational Complexity Single-board and mezzanine-board computers deliver expanded functionality in a reduced size.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 Ben Ames |
Engineers Balance Speed and Heat in a Single Board Processors and switched-fabric networks are moving data at faster speeds then ever before, which is leading designers to come up with innovative approaches to channeling information flow, power management, and keeping boards cool.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 John McHale |
F-35 JSF and FedEx Experts Keynote 2010 Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum and Avionics USA The director of mission systems and software for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program at Lockheed Martin and the senior advisor for Global Air Traffic Operations at FedEx will deliver the keynote addresses at the conference.  |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 April 2008 John Keller |
MAEF 2008: The Show is Back The 2008 Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum conference and exhibition was held last month.  |
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 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 December 2007 John McHale |
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Ronald c. Jost to Keynote Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum Conference in March Session topics include: COTS integration panel discussion, COTS acquisition, software-defined radio and the Joint Tactical Radio System program, IPv6 and its influence on military systems, information assurance, and more.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 |
Military & Aerospace Electronics Acquires Avionics Conference and Exhibition Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine and its parent company PennWell have purchased the Avionics conference and exhibition, and will operate the Avionics conference next March in Amsterdam.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 John McHale |
PennWell launches new e-newsletter, Web site, and show on commercial and military avionics The new Web site delivers avionics information through a news section, a section on features and analysis from staff and the avionics industry, as well as a segment detailing the latest products from avionics suppliers.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 John McHale |
Managing Thermal Efficiency of Modern Processors Discussed at Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum Current and future-generation processors are creating escalating thermal demands on military designers.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 John McHale |
Fiber-Optic Avionics Connectors Show Performance Advantages for Avionics Systems A steady aerospace and defense market combined with the performance advantages of fiber over copper has designers of optical avionics connectors confident in the short- and long-term future.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Thermal Management a Challenge for Designers of Future Military Aircraft Today's aviation, vetronics, and other military-aero applications require more power, but have less space. This contributes to higher thermal loads and less opportunity to drive the heat out.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 John McHale |
Forum Brings Out the Most Crucial Aspects of Counter-IEDs, C4I, JTRS, and More The 2008 Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum last month covered the issues such as commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) integration, adaptation of software-defined radio, and lessons learned from Iraq.  |
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 September 2009 |
Rugged FPGA for Aerospace and Military Embedded Systems Introduced by Xilinx The Virtex-5Q family of field-programmable gate arrays is for aerospace and military embedded systems involving secure military communications, electronic warfare, aircraft avionics and vetronics, radar technology, and missiles.  |
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 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 August 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Quality control Makers of test and measurement solutions serving the mil-aero community continue to advance the technology, keeping pace with electronics advancements and the standards and deadlines to which they must adhere.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Hypervisors and Software Virtualization Pique Interest at Embedded Systems Conference Significant trends and technologies involving embedded hypervisors and software virtualization for military and aerospace applications stood out at the annual Embedded Systems Conference (ESC)  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Thermal Management Targets the Enemy of Electronics: Excessive Heat Heat threatens the longevity and performance of electronics, especially vehicular electronics (vetronics), in military-aero environments.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009 |
Phoenix International introduces solid-state VME mass storage module The VS1-250-SSD military VME system delivers high-capacity, high-performance data storage for military, aerospace, and industrial applications requiring rugged, secure, and durable military hard drive mass data storage.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 |
Curtiss-Wright Debuts FPGA-Based VITA 57 Embedded Computer The ADC513 is designed for demanding military embedded systems that involve direct RF down conversion, digital video surveillance, military signals intelligence, satellite communications, and software-defined radio applications.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 John Keller |
BittWare claims new architecture puts DSP vs. FPGA debate to rest Based around the Altera Stratix II GX field programmable gate array, the conduction-cooled board is optimized for high-end, multiprocessing applications while enabling flexibility for future adaptability.  |
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 August 2009 |
SprayCool Offers 3U Rackmount Chassis with Liquid Cooling for Avionics and Vetronics The 3U rugged enclosure is designed for armored vehicle vetronics, and aircraft avionics that require small, lightweight, low-power, and low-cost military embedded aerospace electronics.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 |
Airbus Looks to DDC for MIL-STD-1553 Avionics Databus Components for A350 Jetliner Flight Control Airbus based its selection on DDC's experience supplying MIL-STD-1553 data bus boards, components, and 1553 software solutions for military, commercial, and aerospace applications, and competitive pricing.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2006 J.R. Wilson |
Real-Time Software Providers Zero-in on Safety-Critical Issues Creating operating systems and kernels that are blazingly fast simply does not make the grade today, as systems integrators increasingly demand software that not only runs quickly, but also will not crash, will not damage other programs, and is secure from hackers.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 John McHale |
COTS Integration and Acquisition is Focus of Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum Dr. Stephen M. Jarrett, chief technologist of the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems (SPAWAR) will discuss solutions to COTS integration challenges and other issues facing defense COTS electronics designers.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004 |
Is your RTOS safe and secure? Vendors of real-time operating systems find themselves being pulled in two directions at once. Defense contractor customers demand lower costs while, at the same, time more security and safety certification than ever before. Linux is a point of heated discussion.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2009 |
SATA-Based Computer Boards in 3U CompactPCI Form Factor for Rugged Systems Introduced by Aitech Aitech Defense Systems is introducing single-slot 3U CompactPCI computer boards for rugged systems that offer as much as eight gigabytes of on board SATA flash disk storage.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2009 |
Ball Selects Aitech Real-Time Embedded Components for Ares I Rocket Aitech delivered its S950 single-board computer and S750 PCI mezzanine card for a triple-redundant embedded computing configuration to provide flight control redundancy in the instrument avionics flight computer.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004 Dave Garcia |
COTS Systems Streamline Costs for Military Suppliers An adroit military supplier would do well to focus on the areas that are central to its strategy and then streamline its business by outsourcing the non-value-added processes to trusted partners.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John McHale |
U.S. Navy Avionics Systems Embrace Open Architectures Designers of avionics equipment for U.S. Navy aircraft see obsolescence as their biggest obstacle in meeting the steady demand for upgrades and retrofits of existing aircraft. Their solution is open architecture.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 John Keller |
Trends in microprocessors: high-end military embedded applications are beginning a shift to Intel When it comes to military embedded computing, basically only two microprocessor manufacturers slug it out for the lion's share of the defense and aerospace embedded computer market -- Freescale Semiconductor Inc. in Austin, Texas, and Intel Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Driving the Demand for Data Storage Sensors span the battlefields, producing a wealth of mission-critical data that must be kept at once readily available and secure.  |
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 February 2010 John Keller |
Intel i7 microprocessor set to produce tectonic shift in industry The military embedded computer industry has been turning backflips since last month amidst the excitement surrounding the 7 Jan. introduction by microprocessor giant Intel Corp. of the latest versions of its Core i7, i5, and i3 processors at the International Consumer Electronics Show.  |