This magazine department highlights a narrowly focused technology area and takes an in-depth look at associated products and developments. This will include tried-and-true technologies like boards and displays, along with topics such as data acquisition and conduction-cooled graphics modules.
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FPGA Processing Boards
Board-Level FPGA Solutions Feed Signal Processing Needs
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
May 2013
Board-level FPGA computing solutions have grown to become key enablers for waveform-intensive applications like sonar, radar, SIGINT and SDR. Signal processing capabilities of FPGAsRead More...
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FPGA Processing Boards
FPGA Processing Boards Roundup
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
May 2013
Virtex-7 Boards in XMC and VPX Form Factors Two highly configurable modules feature advanced digital signal processing (DSP) capabilities and multiple I/O options and are availableRead More...
Small Non-Standard Boards
Non-Standard Boards Target Function over Form
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
April 2013
The growing demand for small non-standard form factor boards shows no signs of waning. In fact, it’s picking up steam as the magic of semiconductor integration translates into moreRead More...
Small Non-Standard Boards
Small Non-Standard Boards Roundup
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
April 2013
3.5-Inch SBC Combines Atom E6xx CPU and 1 Gbyte DRAM Acrosser Technology offers a 3.5-inch SBC, the AR-B6051, which carries the Intel Atom E640 and E620. Acrosser takes advantage ofRead More...
Rugged Ethernet Switch Boards
Ethernet Switch Board Choices Span a Range of Form Factors
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
March 2013
With 10 Gbit Ethernet networking now a tried and true technology in the commercial world, the military has followed on to embrace it as a high-speed data transfer mechanism forRead More...
Rugged Ethernet Switch Boards
Ethernet Switch Boards Roundup
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
March 2013
XMC Links Virtex-6 FPGA to PCIe, SRIO and Gbit Ethernet Acromag’s XMC-6VLX mezzanine modules feature a configurable Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA enhanced with multiple high-speed memoryRead More...
CompactPCI and CompactPCI Serial Boards
CompactPCI Holds its Ground in SWaP-critical Systems
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
February 2013
The CompactPCI embedded form factor has achieved the maturity and broad product range that military system designers so crave. Now well into its second decade of existence, the 3URead More...
CompactPCI and CompactPCI Serial Boards
CompactPCI and CompactPCI Serial Board Roundup
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
February 2013
Core i7 6U CompactPCI Blade Features Remote Management ADLINK Technology has announced the availability of the cPCI-6520, a 6U single-slot CompactPCI processor blade designed forRead More...
VME SBCs for Tech Refresh
VME SBCs Secure Their Hold as Tech Refresh Kings
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
January 2013
As the U.S. Military moves into a new phase of seriously curtailed budgets, the focus will move strongly toward strategies of upgrading existing platforms and refreshing theirRead More...
VME SBCs for Tech Refresh
VME SBCs for Tech Refresh Roundup
January 2013
VME SBC Boasts Low-Power Core2 Duo Processor One of the greatest advantages of VME is its ability to maintain backward compatibility while retaining ways to adapt to new computingRead More...
XMC and PrXMC Boards
XMCs and FMCs Stake Out the Future of Mezzanine Choices
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
December 2012
There’s no question that XMCs have become the natural follow on to PMC as the leading mezzanine form factor in military applications. Meanwhile the VITA FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC)Read More...
XMC and PrXMC Boards
XMC and PrXMC Boards Roundup
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
December 2012
XMC Links Virtex-6 FPGA to PCIe, SRIO and Gbit Ethernet Acromag’s XMC-6VLX mezzanine modules feature a configurable Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA enhanced with multiple high-speed memoryRead More...
ATCA Blades and Systems
ATCA Meets Rising Performance and Compute Density Needs
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
November 2012
In recent years ATCA has carved out a solid niche in military applications suited to its features. There’s no alternative aside from ATCA for a large-sized board form factor—largerRead More...
ATCA Blades and Systems
ATCA Blades and Systems Roundup
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
November 2012
ATCA Blade Sports Dual Intel Xeon Processors An ATCA processor blade features robust computing power, high throughput connectivity and accelerated packet processing capabilities.Read More...
Rugged Stand-Alone Box Systems
Rugged Box Systems Take a More Application-Focused Turn
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
October 2012
No longer just a niche or specialty segment of the embedded computing industry, the rugged box system category of technology has become a staple on par with the single boardRead More...
Rugged Stand-Alone Box Systems
Rugged Box Systems Roundup
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
October 2012
Rugged Box PC with Modular I/O Serves Cost-Sensitive Apps The stand-alone rugged box trend has hit all levels of product types. A new I/O server industrial PC is targeted atRead More...
