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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 March 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Computational Complexity Single-board and mezzanine-board computers deliver expanded functionality in a reduced size. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 March 2010 |
Core i7 Products Intel i7-based computer boards for military, industrial, and telecom applications introduced by Advantech... Rugged 6U VME and CompactPCI computer boards based on Intel Core i7 processor introduced by GE...etc. |
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 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 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 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 January 2007 John Keller |
Small Size Helps 3U CompactPCI Single-Board Computers Find Niche in Avionics, Other Military Applications The reasons for the migration to 3U CompactPCI involve the 3U board's relatively small size and weight, its inherent ruggedness, and its advantages in cooling |
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 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 February 2005 Ben Ames |
Next-generation airborne radar demands powerful computers The radar on the Air Force Global Hawk UAV will track cars and missiles with a powerful onboard computer from Mercury Computer Systems. |
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 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 February 2006 John Keller |
Time for a new embedded packaging standard Military technology specifiers and their suppliers in the aerospace and defense industries should come up with a new electronics packaging standard to complement -- and sometimes replace -- the venerable air transport rack described in ARINC 404A. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 |
Aitech Introduces C108 Rugged 6U VME Single-Board Computer for New and Legacy Applications The C108 provides numerous I/O capabilities for military embedded applications such as mission management computers, heads-up display controllers, and radar and sonar processors. |
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 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 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 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 May 2009 |
Show Products Product highlights for the avionics and military shows in San Diego, June 1-2, 2009. |
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 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 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 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 April 2010 |
MEN Micro 3U CompactPCI Embedded Computer Boasts Intel Atom and Onboard FPGA MEN Micro is introducing a 3U CompactPCI single-board computer called the F11S that combines the Intel Atom XL processor with an onboard FPGA for user-defined functions. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007 John Keller |
Remembering Motorola Embedded Computing Motorola Inc. is selling its Embedded Communications Computing (ECC) business to Emerson Electric Co. to strengthen the company's position in the embedded computing industry. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 J.R. Wilson |
The great cooling dilemma: conduction, convection, or liquid Today's most advanced cooling technologies are starting to take center stage. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 |
Themis Introduces CoolShell High-Performance Rugged Blade Server CoolShell rugged server technology combines high-performance, single-board computer and graphics processor in a blade server configuration for rugged systems applications in demanding environments |
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 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 April 2005 |
New Products Tough membrane switches... COTS networking products... Dual-port Ethernet PMC interface... Environmentally sealed connectors... Rugged notebook computer with swappable hard disk... Software toolset to help implement IEEE 1641... etc. |
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... |