Blessed with abundant rugged hardware, ubiquitous protocol and software support,
and flexible configuration options, switched Gbit Ethernet has become entrenched
as the technology of choice for net-centic military platforms.
There’s no longer the luxury of testing deployed leading-edge military equipment
with rugged testers chock full of Mil-Spec components; instead, modern flight-line
and field testers use modified COTS devices and open standards such as PXI.
Driven by advances in FPGAs, reconfigurable computing has become a valid solution
for real systems. On-the-fly reconfigurability is the next major hurdle.
Without a sound electrical connection, the best, most sophisticated debug tools are useless.
Designers can choose from among three methods to achieve robust connections.
