Dual Chassis Design For Added Operational Flexibility

Enabling Applications Requiring Alignment to the SOSA Technical Standard

When designing integrated systems in ATR [air transport rack], SAVE [standardized A-kit vehicle envelope], and 19-inch rackmount enclosures using VITA form factors within the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, framework, the Air Force, Army, and Navy benefit from a superior electronics form factor for all platforms across the U.S. arsenal. The VITA ecosystem offers a wide range of vendors providing CPU, switch, FPGA [field-programmable gate array], GPGPU [general-purpose graphics processing unit], power, RF digitizers, and up-/down-converter solutions. This approach enables systems integrators to develop any C5ISR [command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance] system by selecting off-the-shelf VITA plug-in cards (PICs) and pairing them with the appropriate enclosure for deployment on military platforms. This flexibility makes SOSA/VITA subsystems the optimal choice for implementing MOSA – the modular open systems approach.

This week’s product, the LCR Embedded Systems Dual Port Media Converter, is designed for rugged embedded computing systems that often require connection to 10G and 1000 Base-T external I/O. The new module is used when there is a need for media conversion from the Base-T to embedded KR and KX backplane signaling. The system targets defense applications with rugged ATR, 19 inch size, and custom VPX and systems aligned to the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard.