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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...
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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...

Rugged 3U Carrier Card for XMC Is OpenVPX-Compliant
Rugged 3U Carrier Card for XMC Is OpenVPX-Compliant With last year’s OpenVPX Working Group coming to fruition, compatible OpenVPX-based products are rolling out quickly. TheRead More...

Multi-Camera Image Processor Card 350 Mpixels/s Streams
Multi-Camera Image Processor Card 350 Mpixels/s Streams Designed to serve real-time multi-camera image processing applications such as used by the military in situationalRead 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...

Virtex-6 FPGA Module Targets Radar and Telemetry Apps
The latest high-end FPGAs have been a real game-changer for radar and telemetry system designs. Pentek's 71620 module is a multichannel, high-speed data converter XMC that is designedRead More...

Ethernet Switch Boards 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.Read More...

OpenVPX Flourishes as it Readies for Prime Time
The goal of bringing together advanced switch fabric interconnects and all the features of a modern, rugged embedded computer architecture, is finally happening in the form of OpenVPX.Read More...

FPGA Boards Rev Up for Signal Processing Duties
Military applications like sonar, radar, SIGINT and software radio—all of which rely on heavy amounts of waveform processing—continue to leverage advances in FPGA technology. FasterRead More...

PCIe-over-Cable Products Offer Cost-Effective Solutions
PCI Express is the only bus that can effectively extend over cable without requiring software conversion and thus incurring increased overhead and latency. That means what happensRead More...

XMC Video Graphics Card Offers Two Video Inputs
The concept of using graphics processors for general computing tasks is catching on fast in the military. Tech Source offers the Condor 2100x XMC video graphics card with twoRead More...

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