OpenVPX: Cards Dealt, Ready to Play

Hailed as the next-generation fabric-based slot card standard, VPX has had a few rocky years getting started. But over the last year and a half, the goal of bringing together advancedRead More...

Switch Ethernet Stakes Claim as Embedded Interconnect

Ethernet switch boards have won a place as a critical building block for a variety of military programs. Once used only as a pure networking solution for command and control systemsRead More...

OpenVPX Re-Energizes Multi-Compute System Concepts

A growing number of applications require multiple processors for greater processing power or higher reliability. In order to solve complex problems in harsh environments, a system isRead More...

VPX and VXS: System-Level Switched Fabric Strategies

Through evolutionary enhancements and technology developments, VME still serves as a dominant bus structure for high-performance, real-time embedded systems. When VME was firstRead More...

OpenVPX Flourishes as it Readies for Prime Time

  The goal of bringing together advanced switch fabric interconnects and all the features of a modern, rugged embedded computer architecture, is finally happening in the form ofRead More...

COM Express Enables Powerful Small Form Factor Designs

  In today's mil/aero industry, there has been a shift from customized, proprietary solutions to leveraging COTS building blocks in the deployment of mobile, mission-critical andRead More...

Conduction-Cooled cPCI Lands a Secure Place in Military Systems

Now with over eighteen years of experience under its belt, CompactPCI can claim to offer all the factors that attract military decision makers. An expanding set of conduction-cooledRead More...

Case Study: Revving up VPX for 10 Gbaud Operation

  VPX has become the de facto standard for the current generation of military embedded computing platforms. These systems include high-speed serial fabrics such as Serial RapidIO, PCIRead More...

Power over Ethernet Blends Distributed Power and Data Management

When building sophisticated networked electronic systems, power and data distribution are two of the biggest challenges for military systems integrators. The labor, material andRead More...

USB and PCI Express Revolutionize Military Test

Fading fast are the days when complex military electronics systems required large racks of boards to implement test platforms for them. Advances in serial fabric interconnects andRead More...