Ethernet Switch Board Choices Span a Range of Form Factors
With 10 Gbit Ethernet networking now a tried and true technology in the commercial world, the military has followed on to embrace it as a high-speed data transfer mechanism forRead More...
CompactPCI Holds its Ground in SWaP-critical Systems
The CompactPCI embedded form factor has achieved the maturity and broad product range that military system designers so crave. Now well into its second decade of existence, the 3URead More...
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...
UAV Payloads Embrace Compute-Dense Rugged Box Systems
Even as defense budgets shrink—with more severe cuts ahead—the area of Unmanned Arial Vehicles (UAVs) is seeing less of a hit. On one hand all branches of the military areRead More...
PXI and PXI Express Dominate Test and Instrumentation Trends
No longer the new kid on the block, the PXI bus form factor has become entrenched as the mainstay architecture for military test and instrumentation. Its older cousin VXI and theRead More...
Rugged Laptops and Panel PCs Serve Mobile, Connected Military
Often called network-centric operations, the evolution toward a networked military means that every vehicle, every aircraft, every ship, every UAV and every soldier on the groundRead More...
COM Express Continues its Quick Ascent toward Military Acceptance
In the past 12 months, COM Express has emerged as one of the common formats among new small form factor product rollouts. The Computer-on-Module (COM) concept has found a solid andRead More...
VME, cPCI and VPX Fuel Technology Upgrade Efforts
While tech upgrades and tech insertion have long been a mainstay for standards-based embedded computing, those activities are quickly moving to center stage these days. In this eraRead More...
Rugged Embedded SSDs Sharpen Their Appeal
Developers of military systems are increasingly turning to solid-state drives (SSDs) for use in embedded applications, where temperature, shock and vibration make mechanicalRead More...
Ethernet and 1553 Position Themselves along Military I/O Continuum
A decision that’s still a conundrum for military system developers is the need to support the requirements of legacy interface schemes while accommodating the performance needs ofRead More...
