XMCs and FMCs Stake Out the Future of Mezzanine Choices
There’s no question that XMCs have become the natural follow on to PMC as the leading mezzanine form factor in military applications. Meanwhile the VITA FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC)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...
XMCs and PrXMCs Bring Modularity into the Fabric Era Needs
XMCs are becoming entrenched as the natural successor to PMC as the leading mezzanine form factor in military applications. Meanwhile, fabric-based Processor XMCs allow military systemRead 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...
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...
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...
XMCs and PrXMCs Fuel High-Speed Throughput and Processing
The long-popular PCI-based PMC and Processor PMC (PrPMC) each have their respective successors in the form of XMC and PrXMC. XMCs enable system developers to mix and match theRead More...
Securing Net-Centric COTS Systems
The underpinnings of COTS security software are founded in the almost universally deployed standards in use today across the vast expanse of the Internet. We typically think of networkRead More...
FPGA-based Form Factor Serves Radar ADC Needs
In Electronic Warfare (EW) the difference between life and death can come down to just a few radar pulses. There’s a matter of milliseconds in which a ship’s countermeasure system canRead More...
Rugged Subsystems Fuel Net-Centric Warfare Needs
Network-Centric Warfare (NCW) has become the U.S. Military's central concept for battlefield operations for the 21st century. The success of net-centric operations depends on theRead More...