New weapons and more sophisticated electronic systems demand more DC and AC power, but larger, heavier generators are not the answer when the military is trying to become “lighter” and “more agile.”
Future soldiers will become more reliant on mobile power sources. As additional electronics improve the information supplied to warriors in the field, portable power sources need to be lightweight, rugged and high capacity.
Understanding the true device-level design of a system’s electronics will enable the improvement of one of its most important features—battery life—without appreciably increasing the size, weight or cost of the design
As RTOS vendors beef up and expand their security capabilities, they’re also stretching their sphere of influence into the secure desktops and enterprise-wide development frameworks.
A wireless data network, with advanced communications and technologies, links soldiers with 18 new, lightweight manned and unmanned ground vehicles, unmanned aircraft, sensors and weapons—and it’s all in one program.
Based respectively on cPCI and VME, the competing PXI and VXI architectures are both rugged, modular platforms optimized for test, measurement and control. Soon LXI, a similar architecture-based industry standard Ethernet, will join the fray.
For most applications, video and image compression are essential in order to conserve network bandwidth. Over time, a number of different standards have evolved, and even more are on the horizon.
