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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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 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 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 March 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Computational Complexity Single-board and mezzanine-board computers deliver expanded functionality in a reduced size. |
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 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 November 2006 John Keller |
VITA and VME technology mark 25-year milestone VITA will support the original VME concept and its enhancements while at the same time providing a pathway for future critical embedded system development. |
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 December 2005 Ben Ames |
Military storage designers call for hard drives Disk drives are still getting denser-slowly-but they easily outstrip solid-state for price and capacity. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 John McHale |
Embedded Computing Specialist Curtiss-Wright to Acquire VMETRO The acquisition would make the Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC) division even more of a giant in the defense embedded electronics market. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 |
Carlo Gavazzi Announces VITA 41 VXS Backplane for Military and Aerospace Applications Carlo Gavazzi Computing Solutions is introducing a VITA 41 VME Switched Serial switched-fabric backplane for military 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 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 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 Keller |
Lost Opportunity for the VME Embedded Electronics Industry The VME embedded electronics industry may be throwing away an opportunity to unite behind a new generation of industry standards designed to help guide military and aerospace embedded computing designers into the future. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2009 John Keller |
VME Industry Troubles Could Have Been Avoided Companies in the VME embedded computing industry are choosing up sides in a fight over industry standards to make the VITA 46 VPX high-speed serial data bus interoperable in commercial and military systems across the board. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 February 2009 |
Curtiss-Wright Introduces Rugged Solid-State Drive XMC/PMC Card The rugged solid-state drive card is for systems in space-constrained defense and aerospace applications that require large quantities of rugged data storage in harsh environments subject to shock and vibration. |
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 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 May 2008 John Keller |
Military VME Market Depends Increasingly on Systems Upgrades and Technology Refresh In 2008, military systems integrators will upgrade existing electronic systems more than ever before, and VME embedded computers will play a big role. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009 |
Phoenix International introduces solid-state VME mass storage module The VS1-250-SSD military VME system delivers high-capacity, high-performance data storage for military, aerospace, and industrial applications requiring rugged, secure, and durable military hard drive mass data storage. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 |
Dual-PMC I/O controller for CompactPCI VMETRO's PowerMIDAS C5000 integrates PowerPC microprocessors, Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, Fast Ethernet and dual PMC module I/O devices into one 6U CompactPCI system. |
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 September 2005 |
Data Recorders Expanded with CompactPCI VMETRO is offering a new addition to its high-speed data-recorder family now offering to bring 385 megabytes per second and flexibility to the CompactPCI form factor. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 John Keller |
Aerospace and Defense Remains One of the Few Bright Spots for the Embedded Computing Industry Many VME military embedded systems vendors posted gains in what was probably the toughest year in the history of the VMEbus industry. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 Ben Ames |
High-Speed Recording Needs More Than Just Storage Capacity VMETRO engineers have created a mobile, 1-gigahertz, ultrawideband digital data recorder for applications such as signals intelligence and electronic intelligence, electronic countermeasures and electronic support measures, surveillance, radar analysis, and software-defined radio. |
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 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 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 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. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Driving the Demand for Data Storage Sensors span the battlefields, producing a wealth of mission-critical data that must be kept at once readily available and secure. |
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 |
TEK Microsystems debuts FPDP I/O module The JazzFiber-V5 module provides a solution for single and multichannel ANSI/VITA 17.1-2003 Serial FPDP interfaces with the hardware, firmware, and software features to support the emerging VITA 17.2 standard for Serial FPDP extensions. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2009 John Keller |
Embedded Computer Industry Divided Over How to Proceed with VPX High-Speed Serial Bus Standards The high-performance embedded computer industry is fracturing into competing camps for defining a specification for system-level VPX interoperability. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006 |
Dual-Processor VXS 4.3 Single-Board Computer General Micro Systems is offering a dual-processor single-board computer for aerospace and military applications that incorporates a dual independent processor architecture. |