Technology Focus

This magazine department highlights a narrowly focused technology area and takes an in-depth look at associated products and developments. This will include tried-and-true technologies like boards and displays, along with topics such as data acquisition and conduction-cooled graphics modules.

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VME SBCs for Tech Refresh

Refresh-Centric SBCs Keep VME’s Immortality on Track

VME has a rich and successful legacy in military systems in part because of its unique ability to remain backward compatible and facilitate technology refresh in military programs.Read More...

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VME SBCs for Tech Refresh

VME SBCs for Tech Refresh

VME SBC Boasts Low-Power Core2 Duo ProcessorPerhaps the greatest triumph of VME is its capability to maintain backward compatibility while remaining suited to incorporating newRead More...

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XMCs and Processor XMCs

XMCs and PrXMCs Bring Modularity into the Fabric Era Needs

XMCs are becoming entrenched as the natural successor to PMC as the leading mezzanine form factor in military applications. Meanwhile, fabric-based Processor XMCs allow military systemRead More...

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XMCs and Processor XMCs

XMC and PrXMC Roundup

  XMC Module Serves Up Configurable FPGA, Digital I/O To address the need for low-cost configurable FPGA computing solutions, a series of new XMC-SLX mezzanine modules from AcromagRead More...

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ATCA Blades and Systems

ATCA Blades and Systems Fill Unique Military Needs

ATCA in recent years has carved out a solid niche in military applications suited to its features. Where ATCA shines is in a military system where compute density and raw performanceRead More...

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ATCA Blades and Systems

ATCA Blades and Systems Roundup

ATCA Base Switch Blade Provides 24 Gbit Ethernet Ports ATCA has carved out a respectable niche in the military where high-density computing and net-centric communications are aRead More...

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Test and Instrumentation Boards

Test and Instrumentation Boards Offer Highly Integrated Solutions

For complex, high-performance military systems, the PXI bus form factor, and its older cousin VXI, have become staples as instrumentation and test solutions. Now the LAN-based LXIRead More...

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Test and Instrumentation Boards

Test and Instrumentation Boards Roundup

Data Acquisition Card Offers 128 Channels of USB Analog I/O A highly integrated multifunction data acquisition and control system offers an attractive solution for adding portable,Read More...

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Rugged Box Systems

Rugged Box Systems Widen Their Scope of Functionality

Over the past several years, traditional embedded board vendors hvave added stand-alone rugged box-level systems to their military market offerings. These complete system boxesRead More...

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Rugged Box Systems

Rugged Box Systems Roundup

Rugged Box PC with Modular I/O Serves Cost-Sensitive Apps The stand-alone rugged box trend has hit all levels of product types. A new I/O server industrial PC is targeted atRead More...

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High-Density Storage Subsystems

Military Data Storage Systems Enter the Terabyte Era

High-density data storage is an increasingly key part of many military embedded systems. Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems in particular take in hugeRead More...

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High-Density Storage Subsystems

High-Density Storage Subsystems Roundup

Portable System Offers 800 Mbyte/s PCI Express Recording and Playback Conduant’s Big River LTX3 Portable Recorder supplies up to 800 Mbytes/s of sustained PCI Express recording andRead More...

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OpenVPX SBCs

OpenVPX Moves Forward as Second Wave of Products Hits

As OpenVPX gains acceptance, it’s still early days for this emerging form factor. Although VPX has had a rocky start, in the past couple years the goal of bringing together advancedRead More...

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OpenVPX SBCs

OpenVPX SBCs Roundup

VPX Boards Pair Virtex-5 FPGA with PCIe Interface A new series of 3U VPX FPGA boards features a configurable Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA enhanced with multiple high-speed memory buffers andRead More...

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PC/104 and PC/104 Family Boards

Roadblocks Few as Tech Refresh Strengthens PC/104’s Hand

The PC/104 form factor—along with all of its follow-on variants—continues to hold a secure legacy position in military embedded systems. And over the past 12 months, PC/104 vendorsRead More...

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PC/104 and PC/104 Family Boards

PC/104 and PC/104 Family Boards Roundup

Extreme Rugged PC/104-Plus SBC Sports Atom Processor Supporting a range of Intel Atom processors from the power-efficient N450 running at 1.66 GHz to the performance orientedRead More...

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