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All-in-one AC-DC brick builds rugged military systems
Martek Power: MW400S Have an AC-powered system that needs to supply DC voltages
from 2 VDC up to 28 VDC? Martek’s 400 W MW400S power module with active Power Factor Correction (PFC) is designed specifically for A&D as well as industrial apps. Feed the unit
90-265 VAC, single phase, at 47-440 Hz, and it&...
Single board cluster,
LAN, WAN computer
Performance Technologies: AMC123 MicroTCA continues to buzz around military applications because it
brings leading-edge communications capabilities from civilian land and
cellular networks into Aerospace and Defense (A&D). When bolted atop
a 1U MicroTCA carrier, Performance Technologies’ AMC123 provides
a ready-t...
VME SBC does DSP, XMC, and graphics
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, Inc.: V8775 If vendors like GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms are going to introduce VME boards like the V8775, they're going to follow the desktop PC trend: Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs and lots of I/O. GE's new SBC is no exception. It uses Intel's 2.53 GHz T9400 mobile CPU with 6 MB of L2 cache, backed up by...
Rugged PDA with GPS, camera, altimeter
getac: PS535F We city wimps whine when we miss an off-ramp or if the 12 V connector dislodges from our suction-cup-mounted GPS nav unit. But what do soldiers and Marines do when they're humping through the mountains and need a sit rep? They just might pull a GETAC PS535F rugged PDA from their rucksack....
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 Daily Briefing: News Snippets
Sharon Schnakenburg — A roundup of recent mil tech industry contracts, trends, and bends including: Pilots preview their future – before it happens; Coast Guard software hastens search; Military technology meets the "Terminator"; and many more.  DSP library portability speeds application development
Duncan Young — Though DSP libraries abound for AltiVec-based applications, new architectures require new potential hosts for DSP applications. Thus, new libraries providing advanced portability are integral to the equation.  COTS steps up to embedded computing security
John Wemekamp — Though migrating to IPv6 gives higher security levels, reverse engineering is also a threat should technology fall into the wrong hands. However, precautions can prevent the enemy from unraveling national secrets hidden within firmware, software, or hardware.  Extending military software life expectancy through safe and secure virtualization
Jacques Brygier — In a tight economy, many companies are utilizing software-life-extension approaches at the code reuse, specification, or design levels to reduce expense, but these methods all have limitations. However, new Safe and Secure Virtualization (SSV) is thwarting these challenges and offering the best of all worlds. Visual computing made easy
Tauseef ur Rehman, John Melonakos, Gallagher Pryor and James Malcolm — A new "visual computing" era is emerging, offering a new way to process and visualize data when engineering modern mil apps. Furthering this new era is the Jacket programming tool, which simplifies the how-to's of complex computer simulations.  Daily Briefing: News Snippets
Sharon Schnakenburg — A roundup of recent mil tech industry contracts, trends, and bends including: Semiconductor sales: A matter of perspective; Phantom Ray technology is ... reality; Wind River seeks NSA's validation; and many more.  Rugged displays do more than meets the eye
Duncan Young — Today's rugged display monitors must be able to do more than just produce pretty pictures; they must also meet harsh environment and EMC requirements, and potentially integrate with an entire embedded computing subsystem or touch screen. |
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With all the hubbub surrounding VITA’s large I/O VPX moving to OpenVPX and then to VITA 65, A&D designers are understandably wary. Instead, they might reconsider 6U CompactPCI’s high-pin-count backplane. Supporting PICMG’s 2.16 Dual GbE Packet Switching backplanes – the...
So embedded usually means DC-powered electronics sometimes run by batteries. 
PICMG's COM Express form factor puts the CPU subsystem on the mezzanine and the system-specific I/O on the carrier card. This approach keeps the portion of the system that changes most with the market – the CPU – on a life-cycle upgradeable COTS daughtercard. American Portwell's...
