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Scalable, rack-mount MicroTCA box
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.: Ensemble 2000 One European vendor recently revealed that their robust 1,500 unit MicroTCA backlog demonstrates the market’s keen interest in using Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) COTS boards, but in a smaller and complete rack-mount chassis. Mercury Computer’s Ensemble 2000 MicroTCA platform is...
iPhone-sized SBC defines portable power
General Micro Systems, Inc.: Atom XPC40x & XP40x Weighing a mere 1/3 pound and sized similarly to an iPhone, the Atom XPC40x by General Micro Systems is the company’s latest rugged mil/aero all-in-one SBC. Sporting a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom with 512 KB of cache, the 3.5" x 2.5" x 0.5" module comes in air- (“XP”) and conduction-...
OFDM FPGA core
Sundance DSP Inc.: FC300 Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is the core of most broadband wireless waveforms, including Wi-Fi, cellular, and other spread-spectrum implementations. Available as an FPGA IP core targeting a Xilinx XC5VSX95T, the FC300 core took Sundance DSP considerable time to develop...
3U OpenVPX GbE switch
Kontron: VX3910 The verdict’s in, folks: Ethernet is the winner. So it’s no wonder that more defense systems than ever use Ethernet as the high-speed conduit on- and off-board. Kontron’s Gigabit Ethernet Switch VX3910 performs enterprise-class switching functionality on 28 ports. It also ha...
Riding the rails with this DC/DC converter
Martek Power: MBRH Series Defense integrators utilize COTS products from whichever industry meets their needs, including automotive and railway transportation. We think the Martek MBRH Series of railway DC/DC converters might have some applicability in mil apps, especially in “big iron” vetronics chassis....
In the fast lane: PICMG style
WIN Enterprises Inc.: MB-80100 When WIN Enterprises incarnated its MB-80100 SHB, it undoubtedly had high performance on its mind. Evidentiary support includes the SHB’s PICMG 1.3 style design, facilitating twin Intel Westmere and Nehalem multicore processors. Case in point: MB-80100 supports quad- and six-core West...
GUI for every device
Blue Water Embedded: Prism  Graphical user interfaces have become expected on most devices these days, and we’ve all had the displeasure of trying to interpret complicated commands using a few buttons and a measly three LEDs. A GUI proves a rich experience, as long as the CPU/chipset can drive an LCD (or equival...
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Sharon Hess (Asst. Managing Editor)
A roundup of recent military embedded industry bends and trends, including: NASA's TDRS gets more modern; DARPA project aims to reduce surveillance woes; Raytheon APY-10 goes international; Lockheed Martin's HULC flexes its muscles
Steve Edwards (Contributor)
System integrators can now combine multiple applications with the emergence of multicore SoCs for better optimization.
Duncan Young (Contributor)
Multicore packet processors can be successfully adopted from other markets because they meet the military's sustainable, long-term commitment needs in addition to being high performance.
Pete Decher (Mentor Graphics)
The new requirements-driven process, more control of component-level legacy issues, and helping hand off system-level projects are advantages to using requirements tracing tools in managing legacy military systems
J. Ryan Kenny (CPU Technology, Inc.)
A critical area of vulnerability analysis is embedded boot code security. After adding a digital signature or authentication step, however, marketing immediately labels the solution "secure boot." But a closer look is needed to decipher what "secure boot" really means.
Mark Downey (White Electronic Designs)
History has proven that an effective strategy for protecting the security of information is one of the most critical factors in wartime success. When it comes to solid state information storage, the biggest threat to security might reside in the technology and manufacture of the storage device itself. Reliability is also imperative in ensuring information integrity - and ensuring warfighter safety.
No one's really 100 percent certain why the heat capacity of nano fluids is so much higher than other cooling fluids, but the fact is: They're really cool for hot electronics. They can offer up to a 350 percent cooling improvement over conventional coolants. But manufacturing nano coolants is slow, and the European Commission (EC) is looking for ways to ramp production and bring down the price. The avenue: the NanoHex nano cooling fluid project, ... [read more]
Juan Asenjo (Thales e-Security)
Enabling military and civilian government operations to dynamically interconnect Local Area Networks (LANs), wireless technologies are a lifesaver in environments where wired connections are cost-prohibitive or just not practical. However, transmitting sensitive information over the airwaves presents security challenges including passive attacks and active attacks. Enter Layer 2 encryption, which can effectively thwart these security challenges.
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