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VME SBCs for Tech Refresh
Refresh-Centric SBCs Keep VME’s Immortality on Track
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
January 2012
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...
Past Articles
VME SBCs for Tech Refresh
VME SBCs for Tech Refresh
January 2012
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...
XMCs and Processor XMCs
XMCs and PrXMCs Bring Modularity into the Fabric Era Needs
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
December 2011
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...
XMCs and Processor XMCs
XMC and PrXMC Roundup
December 2011
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...
ATCA Blades and Systems
ATCA Blades and Systems Fill Unique Military Needs
JEFF CHILD, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
November 2011
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...
ATCA Blades and Systems
ATCA Blades and Systems Roundup
November 2011
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...
Test and Instrumentation Boards
Test and Instrumentation Boards Offer Highly Integrated Solutions
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
October 2011
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...
Test and Instrumentation Boards
Test and Instrumentation Boards Roundup
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
October 2011
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...
Rugged Box Systems
Rugged Box Systems Widen Their Scope of Functionality
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
September 2011
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...
Rugged Box Systems
Rugged Box Systems Roundup
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
September 2011
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...
High-Density Storage Subsystems
Military Data Storage Systems Enter the Terabyte Era
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
August 2011
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...
High-Density Storage Subsystems
High-Density Storage Subsystems Roundup
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
August 2011
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...
OpenVPX SBCs
OpenVPX Moves Forward as Second Wave of Products Hits
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
July 2011
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...
OpenVPX SBCs
OpenVPX SBCs Roundup
July 2011
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...
PC/104 and PC/104 Family Boards
Roadblocks Few as Tech Refresh Strengthens PC/104’s Hand
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
June 2011
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...
PC/104 and PC/104 Family Boards
PC/104 and PC/104 Family Boards Roundup
June 2011
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...
