MicroTCA looks set to become the first serious contender to bridge the gap between the telecommunication and military markets, and could provide the breakthrough for standards-based, embedded computing into the military communications infrastructure that will become the backbone of the digital battlefield and the GIG.
With the growth in Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) adoption over the past 10 years, more and more rugged, mission-critical, high-reliability applications have migrated to off-the-shelf solutions typified primarily by VME. While VME may be the market le...
AltiVec PowerPCs have enjoyed dominance in high-end military signal processing applications such as Software-Defined Radio (SDR) and video/image compression. But FPGAs, with their inherent parallelism and reprogrammability, are fast becoming prevalent ...
Most military aircraft have two major avionics systems which today are only tenuously linked to each other ? the flight control system and the mission system. The flight control system includes everything that is required to fly the aircraft: coc...
It?s tough being an open-standards COTS vendor today. It is not good enough to build products (rugged or benign) using the best civilian technologies; vendors also need additional capabilities that include systems-level expertise. Increasingly, t...