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2.5 GSPS D/A Converter Functionality Meets FMC Format
VadaTech offers a Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) in the FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) format. The high-speed DAC offers 14-bit at 2.5 Giga samples per second (GSPS). The FMC223 features a TRIG Out, CLK In and Analog Out, along with a Multi-IO LVDS connector and status LEDs on the front panel. The FMC conforms to the latest VITA 57 specifications. The mezzanine offers 8, 16, 32 or 72 QAM for amplitude modulation. An RF PLL (PhasedRead More...
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US Air Force awards Raytheon $80 million for MALD-J
Raytheon has been awarded an $80,768,012 firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Lot 7 Miniature Air Launched Decoy Jammer (MALD-J) missile (200 each) to include: data, mission planning, process verification program, and operational flight software. Work will be performed in Tucson, Arizona, and is expected to be completed by June 30, 2016. This award is a result of a sole-source acquisition. Fiscal 2012, 2013 and 2014 procurement and operations and maintenance funds are being obligated in the amount of $79,112,476 at time of award. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center/EBJM, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, is the contracting activity (FA8682-14-C-0004). Read More...
Sikorsky, Boeing Selected to Develop ‘Digital Backbone’ for Future Vertical Lift Program
Boeing and Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of United Technologies have been selected to help develop the Joint Common Architecture (JCA) standard for the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi-Role (JMR) Science and Technology program, an element of the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) initiative. The Technology Investment Agreement was awarded by the U.S. Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorate on June 30.Read More...
North Atlantic Industries to Provide Flight Control Systems for ARES Unmanned Demonstrator
North Atlantic Industries (NAI) has been chosen by Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to provide navigation system solutions for the Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES) vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) demonstrator. Vehicle management computer (VMC) and actuator interface unit (AIU) requirements were met utilizing NAI’s Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) SIU6 chassis. Built on NAI’s Custom-On-Standard Architecture (COSA) platform, the SIU6 chassis is populated with highly configurable PowerPC-based single board computer (SBC) and multi-function I/O 6U VME boards (64EP3 & 64C3). This provides a flexible system solution that allows Lockheed Martin to quickly mix and match functionality based on the ARES application demands.Read More...
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Serial Fabrics Handbook
Pentek's High-Speed Switched Serial Fabrics Improve System Design Handbook is written by Rodger Hosking, Vice President and Co-founder of Pentek. The handbook proves to be a useful technical reference for engineers and it's yours, FREE!Read More...
New! Putting FPGAs to Work in Software Radio Systems
As FPGAs acquired DSP capabilities with hardware multipliers, Pentek was among the first to offer board-level FPGA design kits so customers could easily add their own IP algorithms.Read More...
Dense FPGA Processing Engine: High Bandwidth Interconnects
FPGA-based processing is often used in airborne sensors, where space and weight are at a premium. This Solution Brief describes one such processing platform supplied by VadaTech. In this application, mulitple sensor inputs are fed into a highly connected FPGA cluster and the result output over Ethernet. Being a mil/aero application, it was originally assumed that the most appropriate platform would be VPX, but in this instance a MicroTCA solution provided both size and cost benefits.Read More...
MicroTCA Overview: A Brief Introduction
The Micro Telecommunications Computing Architecture (MicroTCA) is an embedded, scalable architecture which offers flexibility to build robust systems. MicroTCA was designed as a complimentary system to the Advanced Telecommunication Computing Architecture (ATCA).Read More...
Addressing Security Concerns for Connected Devices in the Internet
of Things Era
The Internet of Things (IoT) and the rise of a machine-to-machine (M2M) ecosystem have been long anticipated. As the ecosystem converges with major trends like the cloud computing and big data, businesses need to be prepared to securely address the new wave of connected intelligent device and protect the data that comes with them.Read More...
