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Avionics

Navigation system for CH-53K helicopter gets software upgrade from Northrop Grumman - News

March 05, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Northrop Grumman

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. Engineers at Northrop Grumman will be modifying software for the LN-251 embedded GPS/fiber-optic inertial navigation system (INS) that flies on the CH-53K Super Stallion helicopter. The work is for a Navy Phase II contract awarded by officials at the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) in Patuxent River, Md.

Radar/EW

OpenVPX board released by Eurotech at Embedded World - News

March 02, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Eurotech Group

NUREMBERG, Germany. Engineers at Eurotech released their first OpenVPX board at the Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany this week. The CPU-111-10 is a rugged 6U VPX single-board computer (SBC) that has a quad-core Intel L5408 Xeon processor and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch in rugged conduction and convection-cooled versions.

Avionics

Fixed price avionics certification solution offered by LDRA - News

March 01, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems LDRA Technology

NUREMBERG, Germany. Officials at LDRA created fixed price services group for avionics DO-178B/C and DO-254 certification. The new LDRA division -- LDRA Certification Services (LCS) -- was announced this week at the Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany.

Avionics

GNAT Pro 7.0 Ada language tool released by Adacore - News

March 01, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems AdaCore

NUREMBERG, Germany. AdaCore officials released the latest version of their Ada development environment tool ? GNAT Pro 7.0 this week at the Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany. The new version implements and supports the upcoming Ada language revision ? Ada 2012.

Comms

CompactPCI multi-display controller with AMD Radeon GPU tech announced by MEN Mikro - News

March 01, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems MEN Mikro Elektronik

NUREMBERG, Germany. A new 3U CompactPC multi-display controller -- the G214 -- that can manage six displays simultaneously was announced by officials at MEN Mikro Elektronik Gmbh at the Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany this week. The new device leverages the AMD Radeon E6760 General Purpose Processor (GPU) running at 600 megahertz.

Comms

Com Express carrier board with PC/104 expansion bus released by Connect Tech - News

March 01, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Connect Tech, Inc.

NUREMBERG, Germany. Engineers at Connect Tech released the Com Express Carrier, a carrier board for small form factor applications that has expansion capability for PC/104 and PC/104-Express. Connect Tech announced the board this week at the Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany.

Avionics

Requirements traceability tasks automated with test management extension from Visure - News

February 29, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Visure Solutions

NUREMBERG, Germany. Engineers at Visure Solutions in Madrid, Spain integrated test management into its new IRQA requirements engineering tool. The new feature enables validation of requirements for safety-critical software designers involved in military and commercial avionics DO-178B certification and other mission-critical applications. The IRQA tool automates requirements traceability with tests that provide proof points necessary for regulatory certification. Visure is demonstrating their Test Management Extension in Hall 4, Stand 418 at Embedded World this week.

Comms

SymTA/S 3.1 and TraceAnalyzer 3.1 announced by Symtavision - News

February 29, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Symtavision

NUREMBERG, Germany. Engineers at Symtavision announced at Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany the latest versions of their SymTA/S 3.1 and TraceAnalyzer 3.1 tools for verifying, optimizing and planning embedded real-time systems.

Avionics

PikeOS RTOS 3.3 update announced by SYSGO - News

February 28, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems SYSGO

NUREMBERG, Germany. Engineers at SYSGO released the latest version of their PikeOS Real-Time-Operating System (RTOS) ? version 3.3 ? at the Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Germany today. The latest update enables SMP and Linux support toward multi-core architectures. It also has a new certifiable file system, performance improvements, certifiable IP stack, and other tool improvements.

Comms

British army Scout Specialist Vehicle program to run INTEGRITY RTOS from Green Hills Software - News

February 28, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Green Hills Software, Inc.

NUREMBERG, Germany. Officials at General Dynamics UK selected the INTEGRITY Real-Time-Operating-System (RTOS) from Green Hills Software in Santa Barbara, Calif., as the operating system software for all mission-critical computers within the Scout Specialist Vehicles (SV) program. Green Hills officials made the announcement at the Embedded World show this week in Nuremberg, Germany.

Radar/EW

System synchronization and distribution devices for phased array radar applications released by Pentek - News

February 28, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Pentek, now part of Mercury

NUREMBERG, GERMANY. Engineers at Pentek in Upper Saddle River, N.J. announced two new high-speed system synchronization and distribution devices for phased array radar, direction finding, and beamforming antenna applications at Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany. The Pentek Model 7192 PMC/XMC module and the Model 9192 rack-mount unit, respectively, will work with multiple Pentek Virtex-6-based Cobalt and Pentek Virtex-7-based Onyx modules at clock rates as fast as 1.8 GHz and sample rates up to 3.6 GHz.

Comms

Air Force satellite terminal system from Raytheon gets Milestone C award - News

February 28, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Raytheon Company

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. A Raytheon-designed satellite terminal system for U.S. Air Force protected communications ? the Minuteman Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network Program Upgrade (MMPU) -- acquired a Milestone C decision and production award.

Comms

Android-based rugged handheld computer announced by DRS Technologies - News

February 27, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems DRS Technologies

PARSIPPANY, NJ. Engineers at the Tactical Systems division of DRS Technologies launched a new rugged handheld computer line, dubbed Scorpion, for use by U.S. warfighters to use in dismounted command and control operations. The Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) device runs the Android operating system and interfaces with warfighter tactical radios.

Avionics

AFDX software from SYSGO licensed by EADS/Airbus - News

February 24, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems SYSGO

MAINZ, Germany. EADS/Airbus officials licensed SYSGO to be their supplier of Avionics Full-Duplex Switched Ethernet (AFDX) software. AFDX delivers bandwidth and secure communications for avionics systems.

Radar/EW

Foliage-penetrating reconnaissance radar to support counter-terrorism operations - News

February 24, 2012

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Lockheed Martin

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. A foliage-penetrating radar designed by Lockheed Martin engineers will be deployed to the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) for counter-terrorism as well as disaster relief and humanitarian missions.