Non-Standard Boards Target Function over Form
The growing demand for small non-standard form factor boards shows no signs of waning. In fact, it’s picking up steam as the magic of semiconductor integration translates into moreRead More...
Smart Munitions and Small UAVs Wrestle with SWaP Hurdles
Smart munitions and small UAV payloads both share an increasing appetite for highly integrated, low-power embedded computing. Selecting the right embedded electronics and embeddedRead More...
System Requirements Drive OpenVPX and VME Choices
Military system designers have the tough task of continually developing the most technologically superior applications. All are looking to win in this highly competitive market, andRead More...
OpenVPX and VME Contend with Overlaps and Differences
Since its beginning in the early 1980s, VME has evolved and even mutated in later years. The evolution was driven by the desire to support faster and newer technologies such asRead More...
VPX Meets Needs of High-Performance Avionics Systems
Traditional high-performance computing platforms are limited by the connection bandwidth and latency between the multiple computing elements needed to achieve the performanceRead More...
VME SBCs Secure Their Hold as Tech Refresh Kings
As the U.S. Military moves into a new phase of seriously curtailed budgets, the focus will move strongly toward strategies of upgrading existing platforms and refreshing theirRead More...
Small UAV Systems Push Bandwidth and Latency Envelopes
If there is any area of technology where compute density is critical, it’s the area of Small UAVs. One area where costs are being dramatically curbed is through the use of farRead More...
UAV Systems Face Safety-Critical Challenges
UAVs have a well-established role in military operations around the world for a variety of mission types, and evidence suggests that their use and the diversity of this use areRead More...
GPU Technology Eases Challenge of UAV EO/IR Processing Design
As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) continue to chalk up impressive successes participating in numerous and varied missions around the world, there is significant pressure on UAVRead More...
VPX Stakes Its Territory as High Data Bandwidth Solution
Work began on the VPX family of specifications in early 2004 to offer new levels of performance for embedded computing systems, as high-speed processing and growing dataRead More...
