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...

VME and VPX Data Storage Solutions Face Airborne Challenges

The onslaught of digital devices—from mp3 players to phones to iPads—has created a huge commercial market for flash memory components. As a result, flash memory technology explodedRead More...

Radar Systems Boost Appetite for Faster I/O and DSP Processing

Today’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) subsystems are required to do more, faster, while ISR application developers are challenged to design sophisticated systemsRead More...

FPGAs Inject New Levels of Flexibility into Military SBCs

Implementing FPGAs on embeddable SBCs provides military OEM system integrators a completely new set of tools for customizing their embedded applications into small, harsh, ruggedRead More...

VPX Cabling Solutions from Prototyping to Deployment

With the design flexibility of VPX, there are many configurations available for all types of applications. For certain I/O requirements, achieving the intended design goals could beRead More...

FPGAs Pave New Processing Paths for VPX and VME Systems

Every new FPGA generation delivers more DSP horsepower, higher resource densities, more memory and faster interfaces. Because FPGAs are so well suited to embedded computing boards,Read More...

VME and VPX FPGA Processing Advances Target Radar and SIGINT Needs

No longer viewed as peripheral or coprocessing devices, faster FPGA-based DSP capabilities combined with an expanding array of IP cores and development tools for FPGAs are enablingRead More...

Tech Upgrade Programs Tap the Benefits of VME, VPX and cPCI

Among the reasons for VME’s soaring success in military systems is its unique ability to remain backward compatible and facilitate technology refresh in military programs. As newRead More...

OpenVPX Moves Forward as Second Wave of Products Hits

As OpenVPX gains acceptance, it’s still early days for this emerging form factor. Although VPX has had a rocky start, in the past couple years the goal of bringing together advancedRead More...

Serial FPDP Provides Throughput Advantages for Sensor I/O

Military embedded systems have started to use standard network interfaces for all types of communication. By embracing network-based architectures, new systems are inherentlyRead More...