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Radar/EW
VPX goes HPEC - Product
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Some military programs need high-end processing, and that's all there is to it, for example, an airborne classified data system.
Radar/EW
Radar and sonar applications find a home in CompactPCI and VPX - Story
February 16, 2012
There are many COTS technologies available for implementing radar and sonar applications, including CompactPCI and VME, and newer switched-serial standards such as VPX and MicroTCA. By using real radar and sonar examples, the author illustrates how the communications topology can point designers toward choosing an optimal COTS architecture, in this case VPX (VITA 46) and CompactPCI.
Radar/EW
Chassis Monitoring Board keeps an eye on the system - Product
October 17, 2011
What good is it to be on a ship if the entire ship is sinking, figuratively speaking?
Unmanned
Deploying ruggedized platforms for unmanned vehicles - Story
June 20, 2011
COTS-based technologies and associated thermal management wares are helping to arm modern UAVs/UASs with built-in harsh environment survivability and reliability, in addition to facilitating effective implementation of video and storage needs.
Radar/EW
Double-wide AMC plus double cores completes MicroTCA equation - Product
March 29, 2011
Crunching math and computing algorithms forms the basis of many C4ISR applications. T
Radar/EW
The future of rugged COTS: A 30-supplier OpenVPX ecosystem supports VPX-based systems - Story
October 06, 2010
A plethora of VPX (VITA 46) specifications prompted the need to develop a framework for system-level interoperability. Hence, OpenVPX interoperability is now in place, and its ecosystem is already maturing with products such as test backplanes, test equipment, and much more. With an experienced group of suppliers offering a variety of OpenVPX compliant technologies, the question is not if a military system designer will initiate a VPX-based application, but when.
Unmanned
Open architecture COTS form factors: The optimal approach for UAV/UAS applications - Story
August 26, 2010
A broad range of embedded computing form factor options matches diverse airframe size and mission requirements for today?s UAVs and UASs.
