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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 January 2005	Beware the siren song of VITA 46 At issue is VITA 46, an emerging technical standard that will define - through connectors, pinouts, and other details - a physical implementation of embedded high-speed serial switched-network fabrics for 6U and 3U single-board computers.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 July 2006	4U VITA 31.1 Chassis for Gigabit Ethernet Applications Elma Electronic Inc. is offering a 4U Type 15 VITA 31.1 chassis with an eight-slot Dual Star backplane conforming to the VITA 31.1 specification for Gigabit Ethernet applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007	Elma Bustronic offers 5-slot VPX backplane compliant to VITA 46 specification Elma Bustronic Corp. has developed a 5-slot VPX backplane with a mesh topology with a theoretical slot-to-slot bandwidth of over 5,000 megabytes per second.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005	Avionics: FPGA-based VME processing card VMETRO Transtech is offering the VME64x/VXS processing card, which combines two Xilinx Virtex-II Pro XC2VP70 field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), two 1-GHz PowerPC 7447 microprocessors and a multichannel VITA-41 based communications fabric in a rugged VME/VXS board.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 John McHale	Experts discuss VITA 46 issues and challenges in Military & Aerospace Electronics Webcast A panel of experts gave their views on VITA 46 issues and addressed questions from online attendees on basic fabric architectures related to VITA 46, technology requirements of major military platforms, implementation challenges, and other important issues.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004	Unmanned vehicles: one of the hottest technologies going Unmanned air, ground, and underwater vehicles are finding important new niches in military and aerospace applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 J.R. Wilson	The evolution of UAV avionics Success of military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and development of new platforms for information, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) has led to some significant advances in small-scale avionics systems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006	VXS Processor Mesh Chassis with 12 Slots for 9U to 12U Heights Elma Electronic Inc.'s VXS Processor Mesh is a powerful architecture with bandwidth that can deliver 112.5 gigabits per second of aggregate throughput within the processing mesh in one chassis.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 John Keller	Experimental VME Backplane Databus Moves Data at 1 Gigabit Per Second Computer scientists are on the verge of boosting VME backplane databus speeds to as fast as 1 gigabit per second, or to enable a larger number of backplane slots to function at the same speed without incurring any substantial cost penalty.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 Deschenes & Sanderson	Next-Generation UAVs Leverage FPGA Computing Technology The military's effective use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in recent conflicts has highlighted their successes, which are vigorously driving UAV technology developments.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008	Bustronic Announces 3U VPX Backplanes The company is offering a 6-slot 3U version with a twisted-ring topology that complies with VITA 46 specifications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 J.R. Wilson	Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Get Ready for Prime Time Government leaders are supportive of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) use in non-military applications such as border control, emergency response, law enforcement, and forest fire surveillance.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2006 John Keller	The Future Has a Name: VITA 58 A new electronics packaging standard continues to take shape that has the potential to revolutionize military and aerospace systems like no standard ever has before.
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 June 2005	Ethernet Devices: DDC Gigabit Ethernet Network Card Targeted for UAV Avionics The ET-71000 series from DDC are dual channel Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) PMC cards optimized for use in embedded avionics such as unmanned aerial vehicles.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Keller	Now This is How to Craft an Interoperability Standard Ratified interoperability standards for the VPX high-speed serial fabric networking architecture is almost a done deal.
Defense Update March 2007	Smart Weapons for UAVs The Origins of Weaponized UAVs... Deployment of Weaponized UAVs... Gravity Dropped Munitions for UAVs... etc.
National Defense February 2011 Scott Hamilton	Here's a Thought: The Pentagon Wants 'Thinking' Drones UAVs have gained favor as ways to reduce risk to combat troops, the cost of hardware and the reaction time in a surgical strike.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 J.R. Wilson	UAVs Poised to Take the Next Step Into Combat The future of continued U.S. air superiority will involve a large contingent of armed UAVs and a new generation of unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs), flying missions that manned attack aircraft previously flew, often in joint missions under the control of fighter-bomber pilots.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 John McHale	Unmanned Vehicles: A Tactical Advantage and a Rich Market The obvious advantage on the battlefield translates into greater demand for all types of unmanned vehicles creating an industry that some estimate will have a value of about $22 billion worldwide in 10 years-and that is just for UAVs, the most mature unmanned platform.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 John Keller	A Detailed Look at the Pentagon's $5.4 Billion Plan in 2010 to Develop and Deploy U.S. military forces plan to spend nearly $5.4 billion next year on unmanned vehicle (UV) technology for air, ground, and maritime applications.
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 2007	Hybricon Offers High-Power VPX REDI Desktop Chassis The chassis has a 1.9-kilowatt power supply and fans with 18 CFM per slot to power and cool the most demanding new VPX boards.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 John Keller	Irish Research Firm Offers Global Market Study on Electronic and Optical Backplanes The report reviews current and forecasted demand for backplanes, emerging applications, and interconnect technologies in the global backplane industry.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010	Hybricon Announces the Availability of Standard VITA 65 VPX Backplanes Hybricon introduced standard VITA 65-compliant VPX backplanes compatible and interchangeable with Hybricon's air-cooled development chassis families.
National Defense June 2010 Austin Wright	Army Lays Out Ambitious Plans to Expand Unmanned Aircraft Fleet In coming decades, unmanned aerial vehicles will expand their role in warfare beyond intelligence gathering to become a vital component of attack, transport and resupply missions, said Army officials.
National Defense March 2006 Grace Jean	Urban Battlefield is Proving Ground For Unmanned Aerial Systems Demand for smaller and more capable aircraft systems continues to grow but analysts say that in order to make these aircraft more effective in the urban environment, a fistful of technology improvements are needed.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004	Dawn of the unmanned era While the U.S. military has used remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) since the Vietnam War with mixed results, recent combat action in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq has proven the utility of military unmanned systems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 J.R. Wilson	Manned and Unmanned Aircraft to Share Controlled and Commercial Airspace Governments, organizations, and industries throughout the world are trying to find ways of developing electronic and electro-optical technologies to enable unmanned aerial vehicles to operate together safely.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006	Demand Swells for Optical Backplanes Demand will soon rise for embedded optical-waveguide-based backplanes versus enhanced electrical copper based solutions, according to a report from an analyst firm in Dublin, Ireland.