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Open standards helping to future-proof UAVs - Story
May 07, 2026Uncrewed systems are evolving rapidly, from attritable one-way drones to high-end intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms. Each class demands a different embedded architecture strategy. Open standards such as OpenVPX and VNX+ provide a modular foundation to future-proof them all.
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DSEI, VPX, COTS boards, and a bit of DSP history - Blog
September 28, 2015
Nearly two decades after I last manned a stand at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) show in London, I strolled the halls again this month. There I found floating point digital signal processing (DSP) has overtaken fixed point as the preferred method for military signal processing applications and that VPX is remarkably popular despite its expensive price tag. I also re-established that DSEI is still a one-stop show of military suppliers selling everything from radar processing boards to electric socks for frigid deployments.
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