COTS Products

Managed Ethernet Switch Rides 3U CompactPCI Attracted by its ubiquity and longevity, the military is growing ever more fond of Ethernet. And switched Ethernet is becoming asRead More...

COTS Products

Recorder and Signal Conditioner Team for Rugged Duties When you can integrate any technology down to a significantly smaller size and weight, sometimes that opens up a wholeRead More...

10GbE: Well Suited for Demanding New C4ISR Apps

Military application developers continue to hunger for ways to take advantage of improved communications and faster processing. They also are trying to coordinate information to createRead More...

FPGA Boards Revamp the Radar and SIGINT Landscapes

Waveform-intensive applications like sonar, radar and SIGINT seem to have an endless appetite for signal processing power. Faster DSPs coupled with a broader range of IP cores andRead More...

Large UAVs Ramp Up Sensor Processing Capabilities

The military’s rapid move toward IP-based, network-centric architectures is driving a number of design considerations for current and next-generation embedded COTS subsystems deployedRead More...

COTS Products

Video Processor Card Gains Image Fusion Capabilities It’s no easy trick to combine images from multiple sensors and cameras and assimilate and interpret that data. Providing theRead More...

SSD Products Climb Aboard New Form Factors

Free from the woes of moving parts, flash-based solid-state disks (F-SSDs) are able to operate under the harshest conditions, unlike magnetic hard disk drives. And because F-SSDsRead More...

COTS Products

Advanced Low-Power PMC Supports Dual Graphics Heads A blend of graphics and video performance is vital for advanced sensor fusion, image/frame capture and recording inRead More...

Serial ATA Stakes out Territory as Next-Gen Storage Interface

Over the past several years, serial interconnect schemes have been steadily pushing aside parallel buses, and that trend has impacted the memory and storage realm just as it has everyRead More...

Serial FPDP Finds Niche Handling High–Speed Sensor Data

Many kinds of high-performance embedded computing systems in the military market have an appetite for high-speed data from sensors. Often such input is presented as one or moreRead More...

High-Speed 1760 and FC-AE-1553 Pave Upgrade Path for 1553

Network interfaces for future “smart” weapons will need to support applications such as transfers of terrain maps, target templates, program files and digitized video for lock-onRead More...

Military I/O Solutions Look Beyond 1553

Tried and true I/O schemes, such as MIL-STD-1553 and ARINC 429, remain popular for pure control applications. But they’re bandwidth-limited by today’s standards. A slew of multipurposeRead More...

The Inside Track

Harris Awarded Contract for Aircraft Fibre Channel Net Switches Harris was awarded an $9.8 million follow-on contract to provide 209 Fibre Channel Network Switches for the U.S.Read More...

Sons of Anarchy

Serial FPDP Board Roundup

  VME Card Provides 24 Serial FPDP Channels Using FPGAs in conjunction with the Serial FPDP (sFPDP) interconnect makes for a powerful combination. Such a solution has enormousRead More...

FPDP Boards Maintain Niche in High-Bandwidth Apps

Many kinds of high-performance embedded computing systems in the military market have an appetite for high-speed data from sensors. Often such input is presented as one or moreRead More...

8 Gbit/s Fibre Channel Climbs onto XMC Form Factor

  Although the PMC mezzanine form factor enjoyed a healthy run and is still popular, it can't accommodate the fast speeds of today's high-speed serial interconnects. XMC has solvedRead More...