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Keeping it Cool: Thermal Management Challenges in Embedded Military Electronics

Sep 24, 2015 2:00PM EDT (9 years, 1 month ago)

Today's commercial processors from Intel, AMD, and Freescale bring unprecedented levels of performance to embedded computing solutions based on standards from VITA, PICMG, and other standards organizations. They are the enabling technology for radar, sonar, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaiss...

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10 Steps to Virtualization

Sep 22, 2015 2:00PM EDT (9 years, 1 month ago)

Virtualization—the creation of multiple virtual machines (VMs) on a single piece of hardware, where each VM hosts a different workload in a different operating system—has gained significant momentum recently. Virtualization offers developers new capabilities and possibilities. It allows system archi...

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Managing Avionics Safety Certification for Unmanned Aircraft

Jul 28, 2015 1:00PM EDT (9 years, 3 months ago)

A force multiplier is often used to describe something gives one military a game-changing tactical edge over others. For the US military, unmanned aircraft platforms have been a force multiplier and will continue to be one. However, now the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is opening the nation...

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Considerations for Security on Embedded Edge Devices

Jul 14, 2015 2:00PM EDT (9 years, 4 months ago)

Whether you have an existing embedded edge device or are starting the development cycle for a new embedded edge device, you’ll need to take into account several considerations for improving the security of the device. Join Wind River® for this web seminar exploring the impact that anti-tamper softwa...

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Addressing Hardware Obsolescence for VxWorks(tm) 5.x Based Systems

Jun 29, 2015 2:00PM EDT (9 years, 4 months ago)

Hardware components are no longer available for many legacy systems running VxWorks 5.x. A schedule- and cost-friendly solution is needed that allows current systems to be updated and fielded without requiring a full development and internal certification process. In this webinar, John Bliss discuss...

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Keeping it cool: solving military electronics thermal management challenges

Jun 11, 2015 11:00AM EDT (9 years, 5 months ago)

Radar, electronic warfare, unmanned aircraft, combat aircraft avionics, etc. all demand high-performance signal processing to meet capability requirements. However, while faster processors and FPGAs create unprecedented performance they also generate excessive amounts of heat. Aspects such as ambien...

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Managing SWaP in Military Embedded Systems

May 21, 2015 2:00PM EDT (9 years, 5 months ago)

Military flight computers, vetronics systems, unmanned system payloads, missile systems, GPS devices, radios, etc., are all trending smaller. As a result military program managers are creating more stringent size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements for every system. While each generation of moder...

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Learn About the FACE Standard for Avionics Software and a Ready-to-Go COTS Platform

May 19, 2015 1:00PM EDT (9 years, 6 months ago)

The Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) technical and business standards are driving new efficiencies in avionics platforms. FACE enables platform integrators to rapidly assemble best-of-breed technologies with commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components that have proven safety certificat...

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Avoid the Pitfalls in Designing a Multi-core Safety-Critical Avionics System

May 07, 2015 2:00PM EDT (9 years, 6 months ago)

Multi-core processors open up a new realm of possibilities for increased performance and reduced size, weight and power. But, multi-core design has pitfalls and risks that must be addressed, and getting a multi-core avionics system certified is a major challenge. In this webinar, Kevin Jonestrask di...

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Leveraging Commercial Signal Processing for Unmanned ISR Sensor Payloads

Apr 30, 2015 11:00AM EDT (9 years, 6 months ago)

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) are disruptive to the enemy just because they carry bombs, but also because of the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) their payloads provide to battlefield commanders. Many of these payloads are multi-mission, carrying sensors for radar, signals int...

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Where is COTS technology today?

Apr 21, 2015 11:00AM EDT (9 years, 6 months ago)

It’s been more than 20 years since then U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry issued his famous – some say infamous – COTS memo, which ordered the Department of Defense to buy commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology wherever and whenever possible. Back then COTS was a four-letter word among many i...

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Securing the IoT End-to-End: Concepts, Definitions and Implementations

Apr 02, 2015 2:00PM EDT (9 years, 7 months ago)

Much is being written that the biggest concerns related to enterprise and industry adoption of the IoT are data security and privacy. This e-cast will directly address those concerns and explain and demonstrate potential solutions. The Triple-A of security (Authentication, Authorization and Accoun...

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Navigating the Hurdles of DO-178C Development

Mar 04, 2015 11:00AM EDT (9 years, 8 months ago)

DO-178C is now the standard for virtually all new software flying today. Developing DO-178C avionics software adds a significant effort over standard industry practices. Depending on a company’s current engineering processes, 20% - 70% extra effort to comply is not uncommon. Most of this work is no...

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FAA Regulatory Guidance for Multi-core Usage in Certified Avionics Systems

Mar 03, 2015 2:00PM EDT (9 years, 8 months ago)

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has recently published guidance on the usage of multi-core processor in airborne systems. Multi-core processors offer performance improvements, legacy software reuse, and cost savings through consolidation of multiple applications on a single silicon platfor...

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Two Approaches You Must Consider when Architecting Radar Systems

Jan 28, 2015 2:00PM EDT (9 years, 9 months ago)

Modern radar systems must keep up with a rapidly changing threat environment, readily adapt to new technologies and be developed with smaller budgets. How do you architect your future radar systems to meet these challenging requirements?

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Three ways to ensure your automotive developers deliver secure, compliant, defect-free software

Dec 10, 2014 11:00AM EDT (9 years, 11 months ago)

Developers in the automotive software supply chain are spending more time and effort -- and consequently money -- on the latter stages of development to get the product ready. These developers need to deliver code with less defects, applications secure from hacking vulnerabilities, and products that...

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Managing Avionics Safety Certification in UAS Platforms

Nov 19, 2014 2:00PM EDT (10 years ago)

Safety certification for avionics hardware and software is an expensive, complicated process, but absolutely necessary to ensure safe skies for commercial aircraft passengers and military jets flying in the national airspace. Now unmanned aircraft flight critical electronics will also have to meet t...

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Virtualization Redefined: Carrier-Grade Embedded Linux Virtualization with Docker

Oct 28, 2014 2:00PM EDT (10 years ago)

The presentation will provide an overview of the containers-based virtualization technologies, especially the Docker project. These technologies provide lightweight virtualization-like functionality that can be used in many Cloud and Virtualization use-cases alongside or instead of a hypervisor solu...

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Balancing Software Requirements and Test Needs

Oct 23, 2014 2:00PM EDT (10 years ago)

Software test needs and software requirements are often perceived as a balance of yin and yang, where software requirements are thought to be the “yin” to software testing’s “yang”. While traditional software engineering often separates the software requirements and testing processes, best-in-class...

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Enabling Embedded Security for the Internet of Things

Oct 21, 2014 2:00PM EDT (10 years ago)

The pervasive connectivity of the Internet of Things (IoT) exposes embedded devices to more security risks than ever before. As a result, safeguarding devices, data, and intellectual property becomes a key requirement embedded device manufacturers must meet to succeed in IoT. Join Wind River® and Wi...

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Five Ways the Industrial Internet will Change the Oil and Gas Industry

Oct 16, 2014 11:00AM EDT (10 years, 1 month ago)

Unconventional resources challenge the oil industry. Exploration and development of new sources of oil and gas require new sensors, analytics and processes. These systems need some way to better connect, monitor, control and automate processes. Current technology just can't deliver quick, reliable,...

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From an RTOS to an Operating Environment - Enabling Innovation and Differentiation in Embedded Industrial Devices

Oct 09, 2014 2:00PM EDT (10 years, 1 month ago)

What if your RTOS gave you more than just a kernel, basic set of middleware, drivers, and development tools?

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Enabling Safety Certification in ARM-based Systems

Oct 08, 2014 2:00PM EDT (10 years, 1 month ago)

Processor technology from ARM has become a game changer for multiple industries, delivering high-performance-per-watt processing and high levels of integration to enable system on a chip (SoC) capability in a low-power device. This combination has been ideal for small form factor systems in avionics...

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Why is DDS the Right Communications Standard for the Industrial Internet?

Sep 25, 2014 11:00AM EDT (10 years, 1 month ago)

The exciting potential of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is to create bold new intelligent machines and vast distributed systems. The IIoT will change the world across many industries. These applications define the future: renewable energy, cars that drive themselves, planes that fly thems...

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Pre-silicon Optimization of System Designs using the ARM CoreLink NIC-400 Interconnect

Sep 11, 2014 1:00PM EDT (10 years, 2 months ago)

Gaining the tactical edge on the battlefield is becoming less about troop and tank deployments but more about who has the smartest sensors, best electronic warfare (EW) techniques, and the most accurate radar systems.

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