Hardware Assets
Update VME's Connector Controversy
Chris A. Ciufo
There’s a battle brewing at the edge of your VME board where the I/O mates with the backplane. The three VME connectors—P0 to P2 that have to date served the industry wellRead More...
2eSST: Low-Cost Technology Enhancement for Military VMEbus Systems
Serge Tissot, Product Development Manager, Thales Computers
For over two decades, VMEbus technology has provided designers of military systems with a robust platform, built around a standardized architecture, on which to base new system designRead More...
Special Feature
The Memory Inside: TigerSHARC Swallows Its DRAM
For years, DSP applications have relied on multiple processors working together to execute computationally intensive real-time mathematical functions. Whether the application involvedRead More...
Part II: Continuous Real-Time Signal Processing–Comparing TigerSHARC and PowerPC
Jeffry Milrod, President, BittWare; Chuck Millet, TigerSHARC Product Manager, Analog Devices
Although often quoted, peak performance benchmarks are misleading when used to depict DSP performance. Any real-world view into DSP performance should center on sustained or continuouRead More...
Technology Focus
ProcessorPMC Product Gallery
Dual PowerPC Card Provides Multiprocessing Solution Multiprocessing used to be strictly a system box-level concept. Processor PMCs enable developers to pack a lot more processingRead More...
Processor PMCs Blaze Trail Toward Broad Acceptance
Jeff Child
The embedded board business can lay claim to a strong tradition of spinning off subset standards from established standards drawn from within its own community. Along those lines, amoRead More...
Test and Screening
Antifuse FPGA Technology: Best Option for Satellite Applications
Ken O’Neill, Director of Marketing, Military and Aerospace Products, Actel Corporation
Recent years have seen a significant change in the satellite market. The accelerated build-out of core telecommunication networks that accompanied the Internet bubble of the mid-to-laRead More...
An Integrated Approach with COTS Creates Rad-Tolerant Single Board Computer for Space
Chad Thibodeau, Product Manager, Maxwell Technologies
Future space science missions and communication satellites will need high-performance processing on-board; down-linking data for terrestrial processing will become a thing of the pastRead More...
Can COTS Products Be Used in Radiation Environments?
Michael C. Maher, Principal Engineer, National Semiconductor Corporation
COTS products can be used in mil/aero systems subjected to low radiation levels, those with maximum radiation shielding, in benign non-radiation environments, or in non-mission criticRead More...
