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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 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 December 2004	Software-Defined Radio and Jtrs The U.S. military's next-generation radio system is to be based on software-defined radios, which will enable one radio to communicate with several radio networks, no matter the type of radio, whether it be SINCGARS or a satellite terminal.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2008 John Keller	Radar technology looks to the future Modern radar systems are combining advanced materials, solid-state modules, digital signal processors, and complex A-D converters to give a better look to military and civilian users who need the best possible capability in small, compact, and efficient packages.
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 October 2005 Ben Ames	Digital receivers power a new generation of electronic warfare Military technology designers have shifted from analog to digital radar receivers to deal with decentralized threats. The change is a major improvement for size, weight, and power.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Northrop Grumman Selects Nallatech for Multiple FPGA-Based Satellite Platform Nallatech Ltd. in Glasgow Scotland worked with the Northrop Grumman Corp. Space Technology segment to develop a test platform for space-borne processing.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009 John Keller	Signal Conversion Comes to Grips with a Network-Centric World Analog-to-digital converter and digital-to-analog converter designers struggle to keep pace with an RF spectrum burdened with wireless PDA users, broadband Internet surfers, and traditional radio communications.
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 August 2006 John Keller	Manufacturers of FPGA Programming Tools Struggle to Meet the New Demands of Designers The latest field-programmable gate arrays for military and aerospace applications are larger and more complex than they have ever been before, which is putting increasing pressure on vendors.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006	COTS FPGA computers based on Virtex-4 gate arrays Nallatech Ltd. is offering four new commercial off-the-shelf products that combine the processing and I/0 performance of Xilinx Virtex-4 field-programmable gate arrays.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2008 John McHale	SDR: Here, There, and Everywhere Software-defined radio technology, driven by the Joint Tactical Radio System program, is enhancing communications throughout the U.S. military and in civilian and commercial applications worldwide.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005	Virtex-4 FPGA embedded computing family Nallatech is offering four commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) field-programmable gate-array (FPGA) products that combine the processing and I/O performance of Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs with enhancements to Nallatech's DIME-II architecture including host interface improvements and enhanced clocking.
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 March 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Computational Complexity Single-board and mezzanine-board computers deliver expanded functionality in a reduced size.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 Ben Ames	POSIX: reveling in its popularity Looking to save money and reuse software, Pentagon planners are turning to POSIX. If all real-time operating systems work with POSIX, then soldiers can swap code from a broken computer to a new one.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007 Jeff Milrod	Redefining COTS Signal Processing FPGA frameworks are necessary to provide true commercial off-the-shelf solutions.
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 September 2004	Product Applications Army picks Vista board for Bradley Fighting Vehicle... F-35 Joint Strike Fighter uses Actel FPGA for engine electronics... Lockheed Martin engineers streamline design cycle with Agile PLM... Aurora patrol plane uses multicomputer from Mercury... etc.
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 Koch & Prasad	The Universal Handset Software-defined radio will let cellphones speak Wi-Fi, 3G, WiMax, and more.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 John McHale	F-35 Joint Strike Fighter leverages COTS for avionics systems Designers of the avionics systems for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft are using commercial off-the-shelf avionics wherever and whenever possible throughout the advanced fighter's cockpit
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Military microprocessor technology expands, but requires less silicon space The rapidly advancing pace of technology shows few signs of slowing. In fact, microprocessor and microcontroller suppliers continue to expand product portfolios with their latest innovations.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009 John McHale	SDR: A Spectrum of Possibilities Whether it is called a disruptive technology or a paradigm shift in communications, the proliferation of software-defined radio (SDR) technology is changing the way the military and other industries view radio communications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005	Design Tools: Nallatech Tool Enables UAV Designers to Leverage Xilinx FPGA Technology Engineers at Nallatech recently announced the completion of the Virtex-4 XtremeDSP Development Kit, which will enable designers to immediately leverage Xilinx's digital signal processing (DSP) Virtex-4 FPGAs in new advanced field programmable gate array (FPGA) designs in mission-critical applications.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 Dan Gardner	Programmable logic: Understanding the risks in military and aerospace applications With embedded digital signal processing (DSP), random-access memory (RAM) blocks, and microprocessor cores now easily available for use in high-end devices, it is clear that programmable logic will play a bigger role in the mil/aero arena.
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?
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 Amr El-Ashmawi	Designers Can Protect IP with FPGAs and Bitstream Encryption Trends are moving toward greater commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) security, ease-of-design, and lower cost, thanks to advances in field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) design.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004	Air Force Looks to the Next Generation of Avionics Networking In September, Air Force and industry leaders ran a time--critical targeting exercise at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass. Their goal was to reduce the sensor-to-shooter timeline by combining data from disparate sensors, air platforms, and ground stations
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 John Keller	FPGA Integrators Are Still Asking a Lot From Design and Development Tools Tools that enable systems designers to alter and control the functionality of field-programmable gate arrays have improved substantially over the past few years, yet FPGA users still are looking for improvements.
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 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 October 2006 Annie Turner	How do You Fight Against a Low-Tech Enemy That Uses Paper and Couriers? The more we recognize that first-hand, human intelligence is needed to complement that obtained electronically, and do something about it, the better chance we have of soldiers surviving IEDs and civilians surviving their train journeys to work.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009	GE Fanuc Offers A-D PMC for Software-Defined Radio and Other Military Communications GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms is introducing the ICS-1556B A-D converter PCI mezzanine card (PMC) for demanding military communications applications, such as software-defined radio and signals intelligence (SIGINT).
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2008	GE Fanuc Offers XMC Mezzanine Card with Options for Three Xilinx FPGAs GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms is introducing the XMCV5 mezzanine card with Xilinx Virtex-5 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology for ground-mobile, aircraft, and naval applications.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005	Data-capture and processing board with 2-GHz sampling rate Pentek's model 6826 VME A-D converter board is available for applications in wideband signal analysis, wideband radar processing, and wideband communications processing.
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 July 2005	Virtex-4 XtremeDSP development kit for Xilinx DSP system generator Nallatech's Virtex-4 XtremeDSP development kit will enable designers to use the Xilinx Virtex-4 SX field-programmable gate arrays in advanced FPGA designs.
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 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 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 February 2006 John McHale	Microprocessor IP cores battle obsolescence Intellectual-property cores enable designers to control their own destiny, plan on 10-to-15-year lifecycles, and get all the advantages of COTS chips without the disadvantage of obsolescence.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009	Single-board computer designer GE Fanuc offers software development tool for embedded development The AXISLib-CL signal and vector processing library is for software development in military and aerospace applications such as defense radar, sonar system development, and signals intelligence (SIGINT).
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007	Application-Ready Platform for Wideband Data Links and SATCOM Processing Mercury Computer Systems announced its application-ready platform for wideband data links and satellite communications (WBDLS) processing.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005	Digital-to-analog converter for signal processing Triton VXS-1 provides a 16x improvement in currently available resolution for signal-processing applications.
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 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 November 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Combat training with COTS Developers of military simulation and training systems and solutions are tapping commercial off-the-shelf technology to keep costs in check and take advantage of commercial hardware and software innovations.