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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 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 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 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 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 June 2005 |
Fiber-Optic PMC Optimized for Streaming I/O and Signal Processing This TEK Microsystems device combines a 64-bit 133 MHz PCI-X host interface with channel density and throughput, onboard buffering, and FPGA-based cores for protocols and signal processing. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 |
FPDP IP Core Support for FPGA Products Officials of Vmetro are offering a serial front-panel data port (FPDP) IP core for use on Vmetro's range of Xilinx Virtex-II Pro-based FPGA products. |
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 May 2009 |
Curtiss-Wright introduces rugged FPGA-based I/O XMC card for military electronics applications The mezzanine-board product is suited for military electronics applications, direct sensor interfacing, and system control for military radar, tracking systems, and signals intelligence. |
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. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 2010 |
TEWS Introduces FPGA-Based, High-Speed Synchronous/Asynchronous Serial Interface The TAMC863 is designed for data communications, LAN/WAN networking, military communications, traffic control, simulation, and telecommunications applications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2005 |
Avionics: Rugged PMC Combines ARINC 429 and Serial Communications Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC) is offering a rugged avionics communications controller PMC card that combines 4 channels of ARINC 429 (four transmit & eight receive) and four serial channels on one card. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 |
Curtiss-Wright Offers Ethernet Port Card for Space-Saving Physical Layer Switch Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing is introducing the ET1000 Ethernet port card for use with its GLX4000 physical layer switch products. |
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 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 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 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 March 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Computational Complexity Single-board and mezzanine-board computers deliver expanded functionality in a reduced size. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 |
Nvidia-Based Graphics Processor for Harsh Environments Introduced by GE GE Intelligent Platforms is introducing the rugged XMCGA6 graphics processor Express Mezzanine Card (XMC) for applications in harsh environments. |
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 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 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 |
Curtiss-Wright Offers PMC Module with Either Air- or Conduction-Cooling Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing is introducing the PMC-110 CryptoNet Security processor, which is based on the Freescale MPC8555E PowerQUICC III processor for embedded security applications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 |
GE Fanuc introduces Intel Core 2 Duo-based AMC embedded computer The Telum ASLP11 Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) embedded computer has as much as 4 gigabytes of ECC memory and an Intel Core 2 Duo L7400 1.5 GHz central processing unit (CPU). |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2008 |
Curtiss-Wright announces rugged 3U VPX single-board computer The VPX3-127 3U VPX (VITA 46) single-board computer (SBC) is designed for space- and weight-constrained 3U embedded computing applications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 |
Serial FPDP Data Recorder for Sensor Processing Introduced by Curtiss-Wright Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems is introducing the Vortex SDRxL off-the-shelf, four-channel Serial FPDP (sFPDP) data recorder for sensor processing streaming data applications in demanding environments. |
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 January 2007 |
Fibre Channel XMC Interface for Networking Applications Critical I/O is introducing a Fibre Channel interface that complies with the VITA 42.3 XMC with PCI Express host interface standard. |
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 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 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 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 July 2007 |
Curtiss-Wright carrier card offers PMC/XMC expansion for VPX/VPX-REDI systems The VPX6-215 ExpressReach speeds and eases the expansion of VPX and VPX-REDI systems through the addition of user-specified PMC and/or XMC mezzanine modules. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 |
PCI radar input card Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing is offering the Osprey PCI, a radar input card that interfaces radar systems to the Curtiss-Wright line of radar-processing and display devices. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006 |
Graphics PMC card with M9 VGA/DVI graphics, audio I/O, and USB 2.0 The PCI mezzanine card delivers video, RGB, and DVI input capability and multimedia features. |
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 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 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 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 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 June 2008 John McHale |
Curtiss-Wright Controls announces another VPX win Officials at Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing won their second military design-in of their VPX products for a U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems program application |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 |
Curtiss-Wright Offers Open-Standard Video Interface for Military Video Processing The XMC-280 provides an open standard-based, high-performance, real-time embedded systems solution for capturing, compressing, decompressing, and displaying two channels of 1080-pixel, 1920 by 1200-resolution video. |
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 April 2009 |
One Stop Systems Offers XMC Host Cable Adapter Card for High-Speed Expansion One Stop Systems is introducing the Express Mezzanine Card (XMC) x8 Gen 2 host cable adapter to enable high-speed expansion over a PCI Express (PCIe) cable. |