Ethernet is gaining acceptance as a real-time military interconnect. But enhancements to plain-vanilla Ethernet are needed to provide real-time capabilities.
The growing compute density in military systems means more power and heat that must be thermally controlled. New methods are becoming developed to hit those targets.
Compared to more traditional air-cooling implementations, Finely Managed Air techniques provide increased thermal capabilities and performance density for defense systems.
Evaporative cooling solutions are taking on the highest heat loads in the worst environments, enabling insertion of the latest commercial technology into military systems.
Keeping electronics cool is a big challenge in the military/aerospace environment of high temperatures and volume/weight constraints. Liquid flow-through cooling promises to do the job for at least the next decade.
As military system developers migrate to serial interconnect schemes, bus analyzer vendors are keeping pace with a rich set of protocol analyzer solutions.
