Single Event Effects Complicate Military Avionics System Design

Military aircraft routinely operate at altitudes from 30,000 to 60,000 feet or more, including planes with sophisticated fly-by-wire circuitry and those used for airborne earlyRead More...

Bridging 1553 to Ethernet Networks Paves Future of Avionics

Modern avionics systems find switched Ethernet the dominant network architecture with MIL-STD-1553 (1553) and ARINC implemented for high reliability and legacy communications.Read More...

Securing Net-Centric COTS Systems

The underpinnings of COTS security software are founded in the almost universally deployed standards in use today across the vast expanse of the Internet. We typically think of networkRead More...

Rugged Subsystems Fuel Net-Centric Warfare Needs

  Network-Centric Warfare (NCW) has become the U.S. Military's central concept for battlefield operations for the 21st century. The success of net-centric operations depends on theRead More...

Embedded Tech Building Blocks Pave Way for a Net-Centric Future

  As the U.S. military transforms itself to Network-Centric operations, every node in the networked military will be affected. Gradually, every vehicle, every aircraft, every ship,Read More...

Modular Approach Eases Avionics Certification Challenges

The promise of greater efficiency by using Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) systems that reduce Space, Weight and Power (SWaP), is now coming to fruition. Very large, visible projectsRead More...

Linux, ARINC 653 and OpenGL Team Up for Avionics Prototyping

Linux offers a low-cost, rapid-prototyping capability for Integrated Modular Avionics applications, but moving these prototypes to a deployable ARINC 653 partitioned system presentsRead More...

Enabling Ruggedized IP Networking in Net-Centric Operations

The military trend toward net-centric operations—linking field resources together using Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking—requires that ruggedized IP nodes and servers beRead More...

RTOS Vendors Balance Security and Openness

Today’s leading real-time operating system (RTOS) vendors are practically unrecognizable compared to the lean “garage shop” RTOS companies of a decade ago. Among the most conspicuousRead More...

Heterogeneous: Next Watchword for RTOSes?

As embedded systems bulk up their software content and complexity and move toward distributed software environments, they’ll have to consider the concept of running differentRead More...