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...

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...

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...

Open Approach Enables Cost Reduction for Naval Radar Displays

A modern military command and control display system typically combines the graphical elements of a user interface with the need for complex mapping and real-time sensor display suchRead More...

Power Supply Standard Eases VPX System Design Efforts

The big push toward off-the-shelf subsystems due to budget and schedule constraints has led to the development of a new VITA standard. The VITA 62 Power Supply Standard defines formRead More...