Hardware Assets
VME SBC Designs Wrestle with Fabrics, I/O Issues
Jeff Child
Still holding a firm grip on its position as the leading embedded board form-factor in the military market, VME boasts a longevity few bus standards can claim. Although approaching its Read More...
InfiniBand Technology Connects Onboard
Dave Wessing, SBS Technologies
The U.S. Navy faces many of the same communications requirements that face commercial enterprises, like support for voice, data, video and imaging as well as security and Quality of SRead More...
VME’s Tipping Point
Ray Alderman, VMEbus International Trade Association
It’s no secret that we’re now in the middle of tremendous technological change and turmoil today. Buses have reached their performance limits, and everyone seems to be enchaRead More...
Tech Recon
Serial Switched Fabrics Enable New Military System Architectures
Nauman Arshad, Stewart Dewar and Ian Stalker, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing
The use of serial switched fabrics such as Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI) and Serial RapidIO (SRIO) in military and aerospace embedded computing systems iRead More...
Higher Throughputs Drive Advanced Signal Processing Applications
Andrew Reddig, TEK Microsystems
High-performance embedded computing designs have an insatiable need for bandwidth, both for ever-increasing sensor I/O requirements in and out of a system and for signal and image proceRead More...
Test and Screening
Key Design Techniques Reduce EMI/RFI Effects in Military Applications
Zulki Khan, Nexlogic Technologies
The effects of electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radio frequency interference (RFI) are particularly troublesome when designing printed circuit board (PCB) assemblies for high-speeRead More...
Designing EMI/EMC Compliance into Military Systems
Alan Storrow, Radstone Embedded Computing
Electromagnetic interference compliance, or lack of it, can literally be a life or death matter when it comes to military embedded computing equipment. Ensuring that a military Air TranRead More...
