In support of the DoD’s lofty vision for global satellite linked networking, technology providers large and small are making advances in modem, radio and laser comms, and mobile networking solutions.
Implementing reliable military satellite communications on a moving vehicle, aircraft or ship is no trivial matter. Antenna configuration, spectral density and modulation schemes all require special attention.
Designed for military cryptography applications, a cluster computing design marries an array of FPGA computing resources and power control processors tied together over PCI Express.
Everyone knows FPGAs are good for high-speed signal processing. But they also shine as a mechanism to intermix high-speed efficient data flows and lower speed control traffic.
Migrating Integrated Modular Avionics applications to a deployable partitioned system presents many challenges. Linux, OpenGL and an ARINC 653 platform solution help ease the way.
Leveraging the onward march of chip integration, a variety of standard and non-standard small form-factor boards are enabling a key niche of space-constrained military applications.
