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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 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 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 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 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 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 March 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Computational Complexity Single-board and mezzanine-board computers deliver expanded functionality in a reduced size. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 January 2008 |
Curtiss-Wright Introduces Rugged FPDP Board The cards, available in PCI and XMC mezzanine formats, are for digital signal processing, radar and sonar, medical imaging, as well as range and telemetry systems. |
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 July 2006 Steve Rood Goldman |
Military Gigabit Ethernet: a TOE-to-TOE Comparison Ethernet's widespread use and longevity has resulted in an abundance of COTS hardware and network application software for military use. Fast Ethernet has been deployed for years and now Gigabit Ethernet is being designed into system upgrades and new weapon systems. |
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 March 2006 |
Hybrid Signal Processing Board Signal-processing specialist BittWare Inc. signaled the company's commitment to a long-term VITA 41 VXS roadmap with the announcement of the T2-6U-VME board. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 December 2006 Steve Rood Goldman |
Ethernet Key Technology for Network-Centric Warfare Here, a product manager for high-speed networking at Data Device Corp. explains why advanced ethernet technology is pivotal in military applications. |
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 January 2010 |
General Dynamics Selects 3U VPX and XMC Cards From GE Intelligent Platforms GE Intelligent Platforms will provide compact embedded computing components for the U.S. Army M1A2 main battle tank. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006 |
Reconfigurable Computer Solution Cuts Signal-Processing Footprint in Half Mercury Computer Systems is offering a reconfigurable computing variant of the Mercury PowerStream 7000 multicomputer, called the PowerStream 7000 FCN. |
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 2008 |
GE Fanuc Introduces 6U VXS Quad 8641/8641d Multicomputer The DSP220 has already been selected for several major international military programs, company officials say. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2007 Jack Staub |
10-gigabit takes Ethernet to the edge 10-gigabit Ethernet is enabling a new class of military systems -- one where broadband data from a variety of sensors and other information streams can be integrated across the battlefield to improve military effectiveness. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 |
Card Combines TigerSHARC DSP with Altera FPGA BittWare Inc. is shipping the B2-AMC (B2AM) that combines the Analog Devices TigerSHARC digital signal processor (DSP) with the Altera Stratix II and AdvancedMC. |
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 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 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 December 2008 |
VMETRO Introduces FPGA-based Embedded Computer that Supports the FMC/VITA 57 Standard VMETRO is introducing a 3U VPX field-programmable gate array (FPGA) processing engine called the FPE320 that supports the FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC/VITA 57) standard. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 |
AdvancedIO introduces 10-Gigabit Ethernet XMC/PMC module The V1021 configurable module integrates SFP+ 10-gigabit optical transceiver technology, and provides high bandwidth data-pipe performance and flexible processing functionality in one chassis slot. |
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 August 2009 |
AdvancedIO Offers PCI Express-Based Gigabit Ethernet Card for Embedded Systems AdvancedIO Systems is introducing the V3021 dual-channel 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) module for PCI Express-based, real-time data flow and processing in military 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 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 June 2007 |
VMETRO Delivers VXS-Enabled Intelligent I/O Carrier The Phoenix M6000 is optimized for moving data in embedded applications where high data throughput is essential. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2009 |
GE Fanuc VME Rugged Computer Boards Power Navy Q-70 Ship Computer Sensor Processing GE Fanuc will provide it's VME-7809 VMEbus single-board computer and NETernity RM921 Ethernet switches for the AN/UYQ-70 rugged computer system with rugged display. |
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 October 2008 |
VMETRO Unveils VPX System VMETRO has introduced a five-slot VPX/VXS portable tower enclosure and backplane to accelerate and simplify VPX system integration and development. |
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 March 2006 |
Rugged Managed 24-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch Radstone Embedded Computing in England is introducing the CPX24 rugged managed Gigabit Ethernet switch. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 John McHale |
Lockheed Martin Selects Embedded Computers From GE Fanuc for Air-Defense System Engineers from Lockheed Martin's Radar Systems selected commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) electronics technology from GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms for the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program. |