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Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2008 |
Xilinx Introduces Large, High-Performance FPGAs for Space Applications Xilinx is introducing radiation-tolerant Xilinx Virtex-4QV field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for space applications in video, audio, radar streams, and packet processing functions. |
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 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 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 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. |
InternetNews March 9, 2004 Michael Singer |
Xilinx to Transcend with Triscend The chip developer acquires R&D projects along with the maker of customized microcontrollers. |
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 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 January 2008 |
Spectrum Offers Family of Rugged Embedded Radio Modules for Size- and -Power-Constrained Applications The rugged flexComm SDR-4800 family of embedded radio modules are for tactical military communications (MILCOM), data link, defense, and civil satellite communications (SATCOM) 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 September 2009 Rob Evans |
Make Functionality, Not Hardware Division between hardware and software in product design and development enables greater flexibility and functionality. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2009 |
Altera Begins Shipping 40-Nanometer FPGA Optimized for Speed or Low-Power Consumption Altera Corp. has started shipping its 40-nanometer field-programmable gate array (FPGA) called the Stratix IV for military, communications, broadcast, test, and medical applications. |
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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 Courtney E. Howard |
Covert communique coming through loud and clear COTS suppliers in the defense industry collaborate with systems integrators to further electronic-warfare and signals-intelligence technologies. |
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 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 2009 John McHale |
Flexibility, Low Power Drive Mixed-Signal ICs, Whether an FPGA or Custom ASIC Industry experts still debate the field programmable gate array (FPGA) vs. custom application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) argument, but designers of both devices agree that flexibility and power efficiency drive current mixed-signal designs. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 John McHale |
Raytheon Uses Xilinx FPGA for MicroLight Radios on Land Warrior Program The first spiral of Land Warrior capability will include 26 MicroLight radios, 26 VoIP smart controllers, and situational awareness software for testing prior to early fielding to platoon and squad leaders in an experimental company-size military unit. |
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 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 August 2009 |
Curtiss-Wright Offers 3U VPX Single-Board Computer for Rugged Embedded Systems System integrators can use the Xilinx Virtex-5 field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in a small form factor embedded system powered with a high-performance Power Architecture general-purpose processor. |
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 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 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 November 2006 |
LEON3 microprocessor core available on Actel FPGAs The microprocessor core includes simulators, software development tools, fault-tolerant or non-fault-tolerant version of the 32-bit LEON3 SPARC V8-compliant processor, a Spacewire Codec, and the Gaiser Research floating point unit. |
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 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 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 November 2007 |
Xilinx Offers XtremeDSP Solutions Starter DSP Development Platform Xilinx Inc. is announcing a low-cost development platform for implementing digital signal processing (DSP) designs using the Spartan-3A DSP family of FPGAs. |
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 |
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 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 March 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Computational Complexity Single-board and mezzanine-board computers deliver expanded functionality in a reduced size. |
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 2004 |
Xilinx and Sandia National Labs team on reconfigurable logic for space The stand-alone, triple-module-redundancy tool mitigates the effects of single-event upsets in harsh radiation environments, so designers can deploy reconfigurable technologies in deep space, avionics, satellite, and communications applications. |
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 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 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 September 2009 |
Rad-Hard, Single-Board Computer for Space Avionics Introduced by Aitech The 3U CompactPCI 1 GHz rad-hard embedded computer is an enhanced version of the Aitech space-flown S950 single-board computer with increased processing power and data throughput. |
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. |
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 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 October 2005 |
Tool to Bring 1553 Functionality to FPGAs for Embedded Systems Condor Engineering is offering FlightCORE-1553 to help avionics engineers blend advanced 1553 functionality into Xilinx and Altera field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). |
Home Toys October 2002 Paul Grimme |
Pervasiveness and Impact of Embedded Controllers On the impact of the pervasiveness of embedded controllers in peoples' daily lives... trends and benefits with embedded controllers related to the home networking and control market... etc. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Brian R. Santo |
25 Microchips That Shook the World A list of some of the most innovative, intriguing, and inspiring integrated circuits |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2006 John McHale |
Embedded DSP Market Almost Twice the General-Purpose DSP Market Demand for general-purpose digital signal processor (DSP) chips dipped 2% last year to the $7.6 billion level because of a severe drop in the Chinese cellular telephone market in the first half of 2005, according to a new market study. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 |
Pentek Offers VME/VXS Board With PowerPC, FPGA, and Gigabit Ethernet Pentek is releasing its Model 4207 high-performance digital signal processing and data-acquisition system with Freescale's MPC8641D dual-core PowerPC AltiVec processor and a Xilinx Virtex-4 FX series field-programmable gate array. |
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. |
InternetNews January 17, 2006 David Needle |
Xilinx's Digital Signal Score Xilinx announced it acquired AccelChip, the leading provider of MATLAB synthesis software tools for building digital signal processing solutions. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 |
Tiny-Footprint Real-Time Operating System Leaders of Green Hills Software Inc. unveiled Micro-velOSity with a ROM footprint as small as 1,600 bytes, RAM footprint as small as 1,000 bytes, and service call times as low as 30 cycles. |