Supercomputing technology—in both embedded systems and installation-based systems—ranks as a vital segment in today’s military. FPGA reconfigurable processing and switched fabric interconnects provide the building blocks for future system developments.
UAV-based radar electronics require supercomputing performance in a compact space. A reconfigurable computer architecture offers the compute density to fit the bill.
Moving military computing applications to FPGA platforms calls for a change in development workflows. Tools help automate the design of data flows for complex multi-FPGA implementations.
Most military GPS-based timekeeping systems are vulnerable to signal outages caused by unintended malfunctions or interference from enemy threats, because they rely on a single quartz oscillator for holdover timekeeping. A reliable, robust time and frequency source is needed to sustain operation for mission-critical navigation and communication systems.
Compute-intensive military systems are riding the trend toward multi-core processors. Emerging choices in tiled processing architecture offer an alternative to symmetric multiprocessor schemes.
Designed for next-gen digital media apps, the Cell processor has hooked interest among
image processing designers for automatic target recognition and related apps.
IC advances now make multi-CPU system chips practical. Applying such technologies empower military system designers to make an end run around numerous component and subsystem obsolescence concerns.
As military systems houses turn to board vendors for sophisticated electronics, they are demanding CompactPCI in ever-greater numbers. In response, more specialized board functions are appearing and more conduction-cooled 3U and 6U products are available for air-, ground- and sea-based combat systems, as well as space systems.
