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AdvantechNo military embedded system can function until its software development and testing phases are put through rigorous test and development cycles. Military applications put extreme demands on both. This section is devoted to covering trends in operating systems, ruggedized test and security assurance. Articles here focus on EMI/RFI, shock and vibration testing and mitigation, cooling, HALT/HASS and a host of other hardware and software test-related technologies.
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10 Gbit Ethernet as Board- and System-Level Data Plane
New Focus for Sensor Data Recording Tech: Scalability
Greg Bolstad, Chief Systems Architect, Critical I/O
January 2012
The defense and intelligence communities face an increasing reliance on high-resolution and high-bandwidth sensors of varying types. Raw data rates in these systems areRead More...
Past Articles
10 Gbit Ethernet as Board- and System-Level Data Plane
10 GbE Digital Recording Feeds Demands from Wideband Sensors
Rodger Hosking, Vice President, Pentek
January 2012
Acquisition and recording of signals from sensors occurs on virtually all commercial, government and military systems for aircraft, ships and manned and unmanned vehicles. SimilarRead More...
VPX and VME Tackle Airborne I/O and Data Storage
VME and VPX Data Storage Solutions Face Airborne Challenges
Tom Bohman Sr. Product Manager Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems
December 2011
The onslaught of digital devices—from mp3 players to phones to iPads—has created a huge commercial market for flash memory components. As a result, flash memory technology explodedRead More...
JTRS and WIN-T Programs Update
JTRS and WIN-T Technologies Take to the Field
JEFF CHILD, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
November 2011
Advances in the software defined radio market continue to overlap nicely with the DoD’s software radio efforts. For the DoD’s Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program, many of theRead More...
Training and Simulation Technology
Training and Simulation Systems Advance to New Realism Levels
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
October 2011
Thanks to advanced commercial graphics silicon targeted for PCs and game boxes, military graphics subsystem integrators are able to blend a wealth of graphical and video featuresRead More...
Training and Simulation Technology
Virtual Simulation Enhances Military Maintenance Training
Josie Sutcliffe, Vice President of Marketing, NGRAIN
October 2011
It is an austere time for the Department of Defense—a time of restricted budgets, reduced manpower and limited resources—a time that is compelling the Armed Forces to approachRead More...
Secure Embedded Systems
Solutions Emerge to Meet Secure Embedded System Needs
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
September 2011
Among the more challenging areas of today’s military system development is that of security. Building secure embedded systems is definitely high on the priority list of many programRead More...
Military Data Acquisition and Sensors
Optical Sensing Changes Rules for Military Structural Measurements
Nathan Yang, Product Manager, Optical Sensing & Structural Measurements, National Instruments
August 2011
In the world of military and defense, structures are more complex than ever, have extraordinary requirements, and often operate in extremely harsh conditions. New materials andRead More...
Rackmount Bladed Systems Meet Compute Density Needs
Rackmount Systems Push the Compute Density Envelope
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
July 2011
When the goal is packing in as much compute density as possible into a system, it’s hard to beat a rackmount blade computer architecture. A wealth of product and system solutions isRead More...
COM versus Slot-Card Architectures
COM Boards Find Place as Slot-Card Alternative
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
June 2011
For decades now, the notion of standards-based slot card embedded computing has been a tried and true mainstay of military electronics. Lead by bus architectures such as VME andRead More...
