To ensure the stability of components selected for a project the right questions must be asked. Will it be deployable when needed? What is the Technology Readiness Level (TRL)?
Because lives are at stake when military electronics fail, the VITA 46.11 System Management on VPX standard facilitates intelligent chassis management and, therefore, heightened reliability.
Dr. Andreas Engelhardt (Thermacore); Nelson J. Gernert (Thermacore); Jerome E. Toth (Thermacore)
With the liquid cooling VITA 48.3 spec. still in working groups, component power is limited by temperature levels. However, conduction-cooling APG cold plates can help keep high-power components in a cool, dry place.
Shlomo Pri-Tal, Chief Technology Officer, Embedded Computing, Emerson Network Power highlights three points that have ensured VME's success and will guide the industry into the future.
In a Q&A with six VSO members, Editorial Director Jerry Gipper gathers industry-expert perspectives on the highlights of three decades of VME architecture.
Who's in control? Customized boards tend to become their own beast, but a new service from Emerson Embedded Computing, RapiDex board customization, suggests that they can be tamed.
Software-Defined Radio system performance looks to improve, thanks to the advanced power reduction, increased DSP engines, improved buffering, and faster interfaces of Xilinx's Virtex-7.
Application/Management Infrastructure Services are crucial for success when integrating High availability requirements into mission-critical defense applications.
While many in today’s world seek to increase their own personal or political power, those of us in the high-tech industry know that reduced power is often more desirable. Consequently, among the many low-power systems, components, and storage devices designed to boost performance is A...
While some industry pundits still predict the eventual demise of VME, wares like Extreme Engineering Solutions’ XCalibur1531 6U VME single board computer just go to show that old faithful is still alive and kicking. And even thriving: This SBC is souped up for today’s high-perfor...
On one hand, there are the classic technologies like VME that have been around for years. On the other, there are new processors and technologies such as Intel’s Core i7. Though the latest technologies quickly gain more notoriety than the tried-and-true technologies, it doesn’t h...
VPX has inspired the VME industry with its small form factor and extreme ruggedness, even serving as the catalyst for the OpenVPX (VITA 65) movement. But one thing that has been less than inspiring with VPX – or at least proven itself quite a challenge – is that of testing VPX de...
Avionics technology’s depth and breadth has risen to an all-time high, leaving Orville and Wilbur Wright’s comparatively basic flying machine technology in the proverbial dust. Though the brothers’ 1903 flight made history and serves as the basis of modern flight, that histo...
All good things come to those who wait. Or so it might be in the realm of rugged, deployable DSP boards. When Curtiss-Wright announced their conduction-cooled CHAMP-FX board, we were surprised that they didn’t have such a version all along. We were told that the company wanted to wait...
Deployed military systems aren’t all bombs and battles. There remains a fundamental need for comms networks, including Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) with T1 data lines. If VME’s your platform of choice for a conduction-cooled telephone or line card system, then Extreme Engi...
There is no denying that many VME applications have a tremendous need for processing and I/0 performance. Packing in all the performance possible has been a design challenge since the dawn of VME. Adding interconnect capability such as Serial Rapaid0 and FPDP only adds to the challenge....
It used to be that MIL-STD-1553 chips were based upon ASICs. That’s still the case, but with those digital logic caverns commonly known as FPGAs, it’s now possible to implement full 1553 functionality inside of one. Condor Engineering’s FlightCORE-1553 implements the company...
Developing multiprocessor systems ain’t easy – just ask Mercury Computer, a company best known for commercial and military image processing systems. That’s why the company plans to offer a series of COTS-based system starter kits, starting with a RapidIO-based VXS Starter Ki...
Flash drives are all the rage in embedded systems because the price of the solid-state memory chips has come way down. But on a cost-per-gigabyte basis, no storage media besides paper beats a rotating hard drive. GE Fanuc Embedded Systems knows this and has introduced the PMC-0247 line of...
Here’s a new one to us: Cornet Technology Communications, a division of Cornet Technology, has been in the systems integration business for some time, but they’re new to the embedded VME market. Based upon their experience with customer systems, they’re making available the...
Among all the ink we journalists spill writing about PCI Express (PCIe) and RapidIO, sometimes we forget about other serial fabrics such as InfiniBand. This heavyweight serial scheme is ideal for cluster computers, managed infrastructure applications, and systems such as enterprise class s...
The DoD’s Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) is a huge program that has boatloads of software at its core. Of primary importance are the SCA core framework and the portable waveforms that must work on myriad equipment while interoperating with older, hard-wired radios. Therefore, wri...
The gazillion gate highly integrated FPGAs from companies ranging from A to X offer performance to spare but come with a heavy power penalty. Although VME boards have ample power budgets of up to 100 W these days, that power has to be dumped into the system somehow. If you can save power,...
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While many in today’s world seek to increase their own personal or political power, those of us in the high-tech industry know that reduced power is often more desirable. Consequently, among the many low-power systems, components, and storage devices designed to boost performance is A...
While some industry pundits still predict the eventual demise of VME, wares like Extreme Engineering Solutions’ XCalibur1531 6U VME single board computer just go to show that old faithful is still alive and kicking. And even thriving: This SBC is souped up for today’s high-perfor...
On one hand, there are the classic technologies like VME that have been around for years. On the other, there are new processors and technologies such as Intel’s Core i7. Though the latest technologies quickly gain more notoriety than the tried-and-true technologies, it doesn’t h...
VPX has inspired the VME industry with its small form factor and extreme ruggedness, even serving as the catalyst for the OpenVPX (VITA 65) movement. But one thing that has been less than inspiring with VPX – or at least proven itself quite a challenge – is that of testing VPX de...
Avionics technology’s depth and breadth has risen to an all-time high, leaving Orville and Wilbur Wright’s comparatively basic flying machine technology in the proverbial dust. Though the brothers’ 1903 flight made history and serves as the basis of modern flight, that histo...
All good things come to those who wait. Or so it might be in the realm of rugged, deployable DSP boards. When Curtiss-Wright announced their conduction-cooled CHAMP-FX board, we were surprised that they didn’t have such a version all along. We were told that the company wanted to wait...
Deployed military systems aren’t all bombs and battles. There remains a fundamental need for comms networks, including Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) with T1 data lines. If VME’s your platform of choice for a conduction-cooled telephone or line card system, then Extreme Engi...
There is no denying that many VME applications have a tremendous need for processing and I/0 performance. Packing in all the performance possible has been a design challenge since the dawn of VME. Adding interconnect capability such as Serial Rapaid0 and FPDP only adds to the challenge....
It used to be that MIL-STD-1553 chips were based upon ASICs. That’s still the case, but with those digital logic caverns commonly known as FPGAs, it’s now possible to implement full 1553 functionality inside of one. Condor Engineering’s FlightCORE-1553 implements the company...
Developing multiprocessor systems ain’t easy – just ask Mercury Computer, a company best known for commercial and military image processing systems. That’s why the company plans to offer a series of COTS-based system starter kits, starting with a RapidIO-based VXS Starter Ki...
Flash drives are all the rage in embedded systems because the price of the solid-state memory chips has come way down. But on a cost-per-gigabyte basis, no storage media besides paper beats a rotating hard drive. GE Fanuc Embedded Systems knows this and has introduced the PMC-0247 line of...
Here’s a new one to us: Cornet Technology Communications, a division of Cornet Technology, has been in the systems integration business for some time, but they’re new to the embedded VME market. Based upon their experience with customer systems, they’re making available the...
Among all the ink we journalists spill writing about PCI Express (PCIe) and RapidIO, sometimes we forget about other serial fabrics such as InfiniBand. This heavyweight serial scheme is ideal for cluster computers, managed infrastructure applications, and systems such as enterprise class s...
The DoD’s Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) is a huge program that has boatloads of software at its core. Of primary importance are the SCA core framework and the portable waveforms that must work on myriad equipment while interoperating with older, hard-wired radios. Therefore, wri...
The gazillion gate highly integrated FPGAs from companies ranging from A to X offer performance to spare but come with a heavy power penalty. Although VME boards have ample power budgets of up to 100 W these days, that power has to be dumped into the system somehow. If you can save power,...