Signal Integrity and OpenVPX Backplane Architecture Trends
New OpenVPX backplane profiles that are defined in Release 2 of VITA 65 provide for more elaborate expansion plane architectures and new clocking schemes to support the anticipatedRead More...
EMI Shielding for Enclosures Calls for Application-Specific Thinking
Today’s military is more reliant than ever on electronics. Along with that, the need to protect those electronics from potential threats has become all the more vital. One suchRead More...
CompactPCI Moves Forward as Serial Version Gains Ground
Now with nearly two decades under its belt, CompactPCI can claim to offer all the aspects that pass the test for military decision makers. PICMG’s original CompactPCI specification wasRead More...
Power Converter Technologies Adapt to Rugged Military Needs
As military system developers strive to squeeze more and more computing and electronics into smaller spaces, power has direct implications on the size, cooling and mobility of a board-Read More...
FPGA Processing Boards Fuel Radar and SIGINT Advances
As the signal processing capabilities of FPGAs continue to climb, they’ve become key enablers for waveform-intensive applications like sonar, radar, SIGINT and SDR. VPX, VXS and VMERead More...
Refresh-Centric SBCs Keep VME’s Immortality on Track
VME has a rich and successful legacy in military systems in part because of its unique ability to remain backward compatible and facilitate technology refresh in military programs.Read More...
Embedded Computer Building Blocks Serve High-Bandwidth Military Needs
The need for advanced connectivity and bandwidth is continually evolving to support the modern battlefield. This is mainly due to the availability, and thus demands, forRead 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...
JTRS and WIN-T Technologies Take to the Field
Advances in the software defined radio market continue to overlap nicely with the DoD’s software radio efforts. For the DoD’s Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program, many of theRead More...
