The Department of Defense designed the Stiletto program to be a challenge; testing contractors to find and implement new technologies and methodologies allowing the DoD to take full advantage of latest advancements. Wanting to rise to the challenge as the company had done in previous nautical programs; the engineers at Azimuth knew it would be no easy task to build a distributed leading edge embedded system that could withstand the rigors of high-speed pursuits in rough seas. The embedded computing platform must perform flawlessly within the carbon fiber material used in Stiletto’s hull, which has been known to put special demands on electronics.

After the company’s assessment, it found the open modular platform it was looking for with the Kontron CP6012, a 6U CompactPCI CPU board. This high performance, PCI Express based computing blade enables the Azimuth system to handle data throughput like a server, and because of its dual-core processor technology, it gives the Stiletto crew approximately twice the performance of previous generation processors at similar power consumption for its bandwidth intensive operations.