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Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 |
General Dynamics Runs JTRS With Altera Processors Engineers at General Dynamics C4 Systems needed processors for the U.S. DOD's Joint Tactical Radio System Cluster 5 design. They found a solution with the Cyclone II and MAX II programmable logic devices (PLDs) from Altera. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 John McHale |
JTRS HMS Program on Track Engineers at General Dynamics C4 Systems say the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Handheld, Manpack, and Small Form Fit (HMS) radios are on track for deployment at the beginning of the next decade. |
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 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 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 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 February 2007 John McHale |
New communications for Navy ships based on software-defined radio Software-defined-radio technology is being used on various U.S. Navy surface ships and submarines, as well as fixed land sites, to replace several legacy radios with one system. |
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 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). |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 |
General Dynamics Selects ORBexpress Communications Middleware for the Joint Tactical Radio System Objective Interface's ORBexpress RT is a real-time ORB used by software developers to streamline the development of distributed software applications and reduce overall development time. |
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 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 September 2005 |
Over-the-Horizon Troposcatter Modem Radyne Corp. and General Dynamics C4 Systems' TM-20 for long-distance data communications offers the ability to transmit radio waves over the curvature of the Earth by bouncing signals off small changes in humidity, temperature, and pressure in the troposphere approximately six miles above the Earth's surface. |
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. |
National Defense May 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Trials and tribulations persist in Joint Tactical Radio The military services are severely slashing their expected buys of the Defense Department's troubled joint tactical radio system. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2006 |
FPGA Market to reach $2.75 billion by decade's end Field-programmable gate-arrays find applications across the spectrum of electronic-system design, from basic glue logic at the lower densities, to high-complexity, ASIC-type devices at the high-density end, analysts say. |
National Defense October 2012 Eric Beidel |
Industry Ready to Pounce on Embattled Radio Programs After nearly two decades and billions of dollars spent, the Joint Tactical Radio System, once a grand plan to build do-it-all radios common to the military services, is in a state of flux. |
National Defense August 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Closest of Allies, But Not When it Comes to Radios Despite considerable advances in tactical communications technology interoperability on the battlefield between U.S. and U.K. forces remains years away. |
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 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 2005 |
Signal processor combines DSP and multichannel communications VMETRO is offering the 3CPF1 signal-processing engine that combines the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro field-programmable gate array (FPGA), a Freescale PowerPC central processor, and multichannel communications in a rugged 3U board. |
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. |
National Defense May 2004 Sandra Erwin |
Pentagon Rethinks Management Approach To Joint Tactical Radio The Defense Department's ambitious plans to replace every military radio with a single radio system are being dampened somewhat by the difficulties in coordination among the services and the sheer scope of the project. |
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. |
National Defense May 2007 Sandra Erwin |
Defense Department `Bundles' Handheld Radio Procurements The Defense Department is expected to soon seek industry bids for as many as 89,000 handheld combat radios. |
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. |
National Defense July 2012 Dan Ward |
Tactical Radios: Military Procurement Gone Awry How exactly did the Army go about making the radio better and better? By increasing its complexity, extending the schedule, spending more money and making the device larger. |
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 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. |
National Defense September 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Under Pressure to Bring Broadband to The Battlefield In the Army's 2010 modernization roadmap, the "network" is billed as a top priority. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 |
VMETRO FPGA Design Kit accelerates DSP development for Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs VMETRO and Impulse Accelerated Technologies Inc. are releasing a digital signal processor development kit called the V5+C for rapid prototyping and algorithm development. |
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 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 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 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. |
National Defense July 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Sticker Shock Felt As New Radios Are Acquired Despite suffering from sticker shock, the military services are proceeding with plans to install a new generation of software-based tactical radios that will be common across all weapon systems. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006 |
Northrop Grumman Taps Spectrum Signal Processing's SDR-300 for Research and Development Efforts The Northrop Grumman Corp. Space Technology segment is involved in the research and development of military satellite communications waveforms as it focuses on software communications architecture (SCA) implementations. |
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 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 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 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 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 May 2005 |
Ruggedized computers rely on Performance Technologies Designers at General Dynamics C4 Systems needed a communications module for the ruggedized computers they were building for the Department of Defense. They found a solution with the X.25 Protocol Software and integrated PCI334A WAN Communications Adapter. |
National Defense April 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army's Promise to War-Bound Soldiers: A Wireless Mobile Network If the Army's new tech-buying strategy goes according to plan, soldiers soon may be ditching paper maps, staticky radios and bulky satellite receivers. |
Defense Update Issue 3, 2005 |
Building Blocks of C4 Systems C4 systems have the flexibility to allow more applications to be fielded and new services to become available as the use increases allowing commanders to improve their situational assessment. |
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 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 November 2008 John McHale |
Joint Tactical Radio System pushing for innovation from small businesses Looking to spur technology development, officials from the Joint Tactical Radio Systems' Joint Executive Program Office in San Diego are pursuing ideas from small businesses and universities. |
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. |