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AdvantechOpenVPX: 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...
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...
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...
FPDP Boards Maintain Niche in High-Bandwidth Apps
Many kinds of high-performance embedded computing systems in the military market have an appetite for high-speed data from sensors. Often such input is presented as one or moreRead 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...
Signal Simulation Aids Testing of Advanced Radar Designs
When characterizing the performance metrics of modern military radar system designs, a variety of test signals are required to accurately simulate the operational environment. In theRead More...
