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AdvantechA PCI Mezzanine Card or PMC is a printed circuit board manufactured to the IEEE P1386.1 standard. This standard combines the electrical characteristics of the PCI bus with the mechanical dimensions of the Common Mezzanine Card or CMC format (IEEE 1386 standard).
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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...
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Controller Adds Graphics to StackableUSB USB for years went underutilized in military embedded applications. That’s starting to change as uses from the technology presentRead More...
Multicore Boards Roundup
6U CompactPCI Boards Sport Quad Core Xeons The multicore trend has hit all levels of processor families, and the Xeon is no exception. Concurrent Technologies has released theRead More...
FPGA Processing Boards Roundup
PMC Uses Virtex 5 FPGA for Speedy I/O Processing At one time FPGAs served merely as glue logic interfaces. Now they function as complete processing engines. Acromag’s PMC-VFXRead More...
Serial FPDP Boards Roundup
24 Serial FPDP Channels Blend on VME Card Using FPGAs in conjunction with the Serial FPDP (sFPDP) interconnect makes for a power combination. Such a solution hasRead More...
System, Board and Panel Innovations Fuel Rugged Display Demands
Leveraging cutting-edge graphics chips developed for the demanding gaming market, military graphics subsystems are now able to offer complex video and graphics functionality in highlyRead 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...
VPX and VXS Strike a Balance of Choices for Designers
Developers of high-performance embedded computing systems for defense must satisfy both tactical and technical requirements of the programs they serve. Since the life cycle of mostRead More...
Exciting Times
This is an exciting time to be in the embedded military electronics market. A time for agile companies that can fight through or avoid internal corporate anxiety. Between world affairsRead More...
Stand-Alone Rugged Boxes Fine-Tune their Feature Sets
A trend has been building in the past couple of years where traditional embedded board vendors are adding stand-alone rugged box-level systems to their military market offerings. TheseRead More...
Technology Focus: Conduction-Cooled cPCI Boards
Rad-Tolerant SBC Boasts Low Operating Power Space-based applications require a level beyond the typical definition of ruggedness. Aitech Defense Systems offers aRead More...
VME Tech Refresh Programs Abound
Often filling the role as the “cash cow” of the military embedded computer business, slot-card technology upgrade programs are continuing to do brisk business. That ability to insertRead More...
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0.3 mm Pitch Sockets Support Devices Up to 6.5 mm2 Keeping up with the fast moving pace of IC packaging technology is a tough challenge for the military market. FortunatelyRead 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...
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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...
Processor Mezzanines Roundup
PMC Modules Interface I/O to Virtex-5 FPGAs Performance in mission-critical applications is never purely a measure of computing power. Unless data can be brought off and ontoRead More...
Processor Mezzanine Boards Ascend to New Levels of Performance
Because microprocessors and memory—which comprise the computing core of embedded systems—evolve at a much quicker pace than other electronics, the idea of separatingRead More...
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20-Inch 2U Chassis for Trenton 32 Gbyte Boards The days when military system developers did everything themselves are long gone. They’d much rather find building blocks to pieceRead More...
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3U cPCI Board and Rack Family Satisfies Extreme Thermal Needs CompactPCI, particularly in its 3U flavor, is no longer the new kid on the block in the military market. It’s paidRead More...
VPX, VXS and VME SBCs Roundup
VME SBC Boasts Latest Low-Power Core2 Duo Processor Perhaps the greatest triumph of VME is its capability to maintain backward compatibility while remaining suited to incorporatingRead More...
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3U VPX SBC Sports Freescale MPC 8640D Processor There have been only a handful of SBC vendors so far that have rolled out VPX products. The ones that jumped on board haveRead More...
Rugged Box Systems Tighten Their Military Focus
Over the past couple of years, traditional embedded board vendors have been adding stand-alone rugged box-level systems to their military market offerings. These complete systemRead More...
Rugged Stand-Alone Box System Roundup
Rugged System Features Military Connectors The stand-alone rugged box trend has touched nearly every corner of the military embedded computer market. ADLINK Technology, for its part,Read More...
The Inside Track
SMART Modular Tech's SDDs Selected for F/A-18 Upgrade Program Harris has selected SMART Modular Technologies to provide solid-state drives (SSDs) for use in its Mass Storage UnitRead More...
XMC and PrXMC Roundup
Rugged 10 Gbit Ethernet XMC Sports Dual Front-Panel Interfaces The military has completely embraced Ethernet both as a network technology and as a fabric interconnect scheme. WithRead More...
XMCs and PrXMCs Open Door to New Levels of Performance
Mezzanine cards have held an entrenched position in military embedded systems since the early days of SBCs and standard backplanes. They enable system developers to mix and match theRead More...
Rugged Boards Push the Performance/Power Envelope
Compute-density has become the watchword in many segments of military system design. More and more programs are pushing for as much computer processing muscle as can possibility fitRead More...
Dual Fast Ethernet PMC uses USM Form Factor
Dual Fast Ethernet PMC Uses USM Form Factor MEN Micro’s Universal Submodule (USM) concept implements a board’s desired functionality through one or more IP cores in an FPGA. TheRead More...
XMC Module Serves Upwith Dual channel 1 GS/s 12-bit Digitizer
XMC Module Serves Up Dual channel 1 GS/s 12-bit Digitizer An XMC I/O module features dual channels of 1 GSample/s 12-bit digitizing with a Virtex5 FPGA computing core, DRAM and SRAMRead More...
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...
Conduction-Cooled cPCI Board Roundup
6U cPCI Blade Does Extended Temps and Conduction Cooling The Core2 Duo processor quickly became the most widely used multicore processor, and the military embedded space was quickRead More...
High-Density 16-bit D/A PMC Board Includes FIFOs
Thanks to advanced FPGAs and powerful converter technologies, quite a bit of D/A channel functionality can be squeezed into a single card. Tews Technologies has announced theRead More...
