Military Embedded Systems

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Comms

Mission critical on the inside, too - Product

October 25, 2010
When we think mission critical often the first things to come to mind are physical ruggedness.
Radar/EW

Activate the clock frequency - but how? - Product

October 25, 2010
Designing a system is difficult, and finding the optimum clock frequency remains a matter of trial and error. Solving this likely served as impetus for Pentek, Inc. when it developed its Model 7191 Multifrequency Programmable Clock Synthesizer.
Comms

FPGA offers a triad of wares, all rolled onto a single chip - Product

October 25, 2010
How much better would it be to combine a triad of components onto a single chip and save integration time and tool cost?
Cyber

Interceptor bridles the email monster - Product

October 25, 2010
Hackers beware. There's a new email security compliance enforcer in town and it's coming to a U.S. government agency or enterprise near you: Espion International, Inc.'s Interceptor security-hardened email compliance enforcer.
Radar/EW

Scalable, rack-mount MicroTCA box - Product

July 26, 2010
One European vendor recently revealed that their robust 1,500 unit MicroTCA backlog demonstrates the market's keen interest in using Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) COTS boards, but in a smaller and complete rack-mount chassis.
Unmanned

iPhone-sized SBC defines portable power - Product

July 26, 2010
Weighing a mere 1/3 pound and sized similarly to an iPhone, the Atom XPC40x by General Micro Systems is the company's latest rugged mil/aero all-in-one SBC.
Comms

In the fast lane: PICMG style - Product

July 26, 2010
When WIN Enterprises incarnated its MB-80100 SHB, it undoubtedly had high performance on its mind. Evidentiary support includes the SHBs PICMG 1.3 style design, facilitating twin Intel Westmere and Nehalem multicore processors.
Comms

OFDM FPGA core - Product

July 26, 2010
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is the core of most broadband wireless waveforms, including Wi-Fi, cellular, and other spread-spectrum implementations.
Radar/EW

Mini, wide DC-DC converters - Product

July 26, 2010
It sounds like a line from a country western song, but the 28V Wide Input Mini Family of DC-DC Converters; high-efficiency DC-DC converters from Vicor are both mini and wide.
Comms

3U OpenVPX GbE switch - Product

July 26, 2010
The verdict's in, folks: Ethernet is the winner. So it's no wonder that more defense systems than ever use Ethernet as the high-speed conduit on- and off-board. Kontron's Gigabit Ethernet Switch VX3910 performs enterprise-class switching functionality on 28 ports.
Comms

GUI for every device - Product

July 26, 2010
Graphical user interfaces have become expected on most devices these days, and we've all had the displeasure of trying to interpret complicated commands using a few buttons and a measly three LEDs.
Comms

Riding the rails with this DC/DC converter - Product

July 26, 2010
Defense integrators utilize COTS products from whichever industry meets their needs, including automotive and railway transportation.
Comms

Bumps in the night are no problem for TabletPC - Product

June 01, 2010
Protecting data from things that go bump in the night - or during the day - is the recently upgraded E100 fully rugged TabletPC from Getac Inc.
Radar/EW

ISR subsystem makes things a lot easier - Product

June 01, 2010
Wouldn't life be easier if engineers could just put an entire already-made subsystem into their design and move on, exponentially speeding development time and ease?
Radar/EW

Hardcore liquid-submersed workstation goes and goes ... - Product

June 01, 2010
When those internal components temperatures go up, system performance goes down. Such is the natural order of the embedded electronics world. H
Radar/EW

XMC card doubles the span of memory lane - Product

June 01, 2010
As the years march on, memory shortcomings become increasingly prevalent in human beings.
Unmanned

Will the real automatic target tracker please stand up? - Product

June 01, 2010
Clutter might be a nuisance in the kitchen or conference room, but it's even more imperative to clean it up when we're talking about video imaging used for target tracking and detection. O
Comms

Bus analyzer GUI's got the look - Product

June 01, 2010
Face it. Looks do matter: not just on the runway or new car lot, but certainly also when it comes to pitting character-based bus analyzers against modern Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs).
Comms

EMI won't blow a gasket - Product

June 01, 2010
Electromagnetic Interference or EMI (aka RFI or Radio Frequency Interference) can be annoying when it affects devices such as consumers' cell phones or televisions.
Comms

Virtex-6 FPGAs just got a whole lot easier - Product

June 01, 2010
The military embedded signal processing arena, like all embedded technologies, is constantly evolving. Of course, that's code for: "Companies have to spend a lot to keep up with the times."
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