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Reducing Development Time and Managing SWaP-C in Defense Electronics Systems

Sep 07, 2017 11:00AM EDT (7 years, 2 months ago)

Military electronics systems designers of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), systems, avionics, and other applications continue to face requirements for reduced size,weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) in their programs along with more and more pressure for quick turn arounds on thei...

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Make Your High-Integrity Code Safe and Secure

Aug 16, 2017 2:00PM EDT (7 years, 3 months ago)

Attend this webcast to learn how to verify the quality, reliability, and security of high-integrity software. You'll learn to do this thoroughly and efficiently using automated static code analysis based on formal methods.

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COTS Signal Processing for Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems

Aug 15, 2017 11:00AM EDT (7 years, 3 months ago)

Many of the feats accomplished by modern military radar and electronic warfare (EW) systems are enabled by commercial technology -- from the signal processors to FPGAs, to analog to digital converters and digital to analog converters, to the board and system level. Cognitive EW and multifunctional s...

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Demystifying Security for Military Data Storage

Jun 28, 2017 11:00AM EDT (7 years, 4 months ago)

Today's military sensor and other high-performing processing systems generate massive amounts of data. Often, this sensitive or mission critical data is stored on Solid State Drives. While COTS SSDs can usually offer an attractive initial price, their short-comings for military applications often en...

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Too Hot to Handle: Enabling Efficient Thermal Management in Military Electronics

May 04, 2017 2:00PM EDT (7 years, 6 months ago)

Commercial processors and FPGAs promise and deliver performance advantages for military communications systems, sensor applications, radar, and electronic warfare programs at a lower price point than custom-designed systems. But to accomplish that performance they must generate a lot of heat and eve...

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Unmanned Aircraft and Safety Certification

Mar 15, 2017 2:00PM EDT (7 years, 8 months ago)

Autonomous aircraft -- from hand-thrown unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to high-flying jet-powered platforms are close to being certified to fly in multiple sections of the national airspace. The main hurdles remaining are safety related such as properly certifying their hardware and software for fl...

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GaN for Military Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems

Feb 09, 2017 11:00AM EDT (7 years, 9 months ago)

Military radar and electronic warfare (EW) system designers are leveraging Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology more and more for their RF solutions as the price for GaN devices drops and as the industry learns more about GaN's performance benefits. GaN enables power density and higher efficiencies not...

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Getting the Requirements Right for Safety Critical Systems

Jan 19, 2017 11:00AM EDT (7 years, 10 months ago)

Safety critical systems, whether in avionics, automotive, and medical applications are built on requirements. Today the complexity of these systems in each market is expanding at an exponential rate. Combine that with compressed product development schedules and the need for a strong requirements fo...

Enabling SIGINT thru Deep Learning Tech and HPEC

Dec 06, 2016 11:00AM EDT (7 years, 11 months ago)

Military signal intelligence (SIGINT) and image processing applications require the processing of very large data sets to predict and evaluate future courses of action. Government researchers such as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations (SEAS)...

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FPGAs: A Game Changer for Military Communications

Oct 12, 2016 12:00PM EDT (8 years, 1 month ago)

FPGAs have been a force multiplier for military signal processing applications that require modularity and flexibility. They excel in implementing the needed functions in hardware to create massively parallel signal processing units. For military communications applications they enable software defi...

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Military ISR Sensors and Embedded Signal Processing

Sep 29, 2016 2:00PM EDT (8 years, 1 month ago)

Whether in peacetime or during major conflicts, today's militaries rely on sensor technology to achieve tactical superiority for radar, electronic warfare, sonar, and other intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) sensors. Attaining that tactical edge with sensors means leveraging commer...

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How to Design Distributed Robotic Control Systems

Sep 08, 2016 2:00PM EDT (8 years, 2 months ago)

A growing number of advanced robotics applications require tight coordination of multiple systems and devices. Sensors, actuators, manipulators and mobile platforms all must communicate with each other to meet the demanding requirements of today's emerging robotics applications. Join the experts fro...

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Level A certification of avionics COTS hardware and software

Jul 26, 2016 2:00PM EDT (8 years, 3 months ago)

Certification of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software to Design Assurance Level (DAL) A will be a game changer for the avionics industry. Thanks to developments such as OpenGL SC 2.0 for Shader Programmable Safety Critical Graphics by the Khronos Group are enabling this process in a...

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Beating Back the Heat: Solving Thermal Management Challenges in Military Electronics

Jun 21, 2016 2:00PM EDT (8 years, 5 months ago)

Modern avionics, radar, sonar, and electronic warfare systems depend heavily on the performance advantages of commercial processors from companies such as Intel, AMD, Freescale, and others. Yet, they also generate tremendous amounts of heat while delivering that capability, creating thermal manageme...

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Streamline your Software-Defined Radio with Model-Based Design

Jun 15, 2016 2:00PM EDT (8 years, 5 months ago)

Software-Defined Radio (SDR) development requires expertise in multiple engineering disciplines, with design tasks spread across different engineering groups. These groups may be using completely different design tools for their tasks, which can lead to inefficiencies in the overall system design pr...

Solving Aerospace Tech Development Challenges

Jun 07, 2016 2:00PM EDT (8 years, 5 months ago)

Designers of embedded aerospace technology systems from flight controls to avionics displays to engine monitoring systems to in-flight entertainment systems face increasing pressures to reduce development time and in turn reduce labor and long-term life cycle costs all while enhancing performance. T...

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Better Embedded Software Testing through Static Analysis

May 12, 2016 2:00PM EDT (8 years, 6 months ago)

Software testing is ubiquitous and an integral part of embedded code verification. However, it can be an expensive activity especially if done in an ad-hoc manner towards the end of the development process. Test-Driven Development brings certain advantages that help structure the process for efficie...

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NFC for Smarter Grid Infrastructure and Metering Solutions

Apr 28, 2016 11:00AM EDT (8 years, 6 months ago)

NFC, a short-range wireless technology integrated into smartphones, enables new possibilities for smarter grid infrastructure and metering solutions. Use cases range from secure pre-payment, zero power configuration and service interface, battery-less sensors up to a simplified pairing process of ot...

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Solving Avionics Safety Certification Challenges in UAS Platforms

Mar 16, 2016 2:00PM EDT (8 years, 8 months ago)

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) continues to release new approvals for the use of unmanned aircraft in the national airspace and other nations are making similar moves. As a result, many unmanned aircraft system (UAS) platforms must now comply with FAA safety standards for technology such...

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The Theory of FFT Techniques for Signal Analysis and Applications in FMCW Radar Measurement Systems

Feb 02, 2016 9:00AM EDT (8 years, 9 months ago)

This webinar addresses the processing of FMCW (Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave) signals from Radar transmitters, and highlights the growing importance of FMCW systems in applications such as Automotive. The presentation covers the most important signal processing algorithms used by modern Spectr...

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How to Develop Mission-Critical Avionics and Defense Systems with Ada and DDS

Nov 19, 2015 11:00AM EDT (9 years ago)

The Ada programming language is particularly well suited to developing mission-critical and safety-critical systems that must be cost-effectively maintained over long lifecycles. These systems increasingly consist of multiple components distributed across processing nodes. Developers therefore requi...

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Cut DO-178C Avionics Software Costs with Adaptable Data Distribution

Nov 17, 2015 2:00PM EDT (9 years ago)

Aircraft avionics are I/O intensive, driven by sensors throughout the aircraft that provide a variety of data types, formats and rates, and these attributes vary from aircraft to aircraft. DDC-I's data distribution infrastructure isolates applications from the details of the underlying I/O subsyste...

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Introduction to all new TI Sitara(tm) Processors and Ittiam solutions

Oct 22, 2015 11:00AM EDT (9 years, 1 month ago)

This webinar starts with an introduction to the new TI Sitara(tm) processors, including features, target applications and benefits, followed by Ittiam's offerings for industrial applications. Ittiam's solutions include hardware boards, Media SDKs and Pre-configured Systems to realize use cases such...

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Slash Avionics Integration Costs with DO-178C Certifiable Connectivity Software

Oct 20, 2015 11:00AM EDT (9 years, 1 month ago)

Avionics systems have traditionally used custom software to communicate between different applications and subsystems. The need for building certifiable systems based on a COTS and open architecture foundation has intensified due to the convergence of several trends.

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Building a smart, connected device? Learn why VxWorks is best RTOS for you

Oct 20, 2015 2:00PM EDT (9 years, 1 month ago)

Real-time Operating System (RTOS) devices have always played a critical role when strict performance and reliability requirements were necessary. In today's connected world with a rapidly growing base of IoT devices, the need for security, safety certification, scalability and virtualization is expa...

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