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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Conduction-Cooled CompactPCI Boards
Conduction-Cooled cPCI Lands a Secure Place in Military Systems
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
February 2010
Now with over eighteen years of experience under its belt, CompactPCI can claim to offer all the factors that attract military decision makers. An expanding set of conduction-cooledRead More...
Past Articles
Conduction-Cooled CompactPCI Boards
Conduction-Cooled cPCI Board Roundup
February 2010
6U cPCI Blade Does Extended Temps and Conduction Cooling The Core2 Duo processor quickly became the most widely used multicore processor, and the military embedded space was quickRead More...
Serial FPDP Boards
Serial FPDP Board Roundup
January 2010
VME Card Provides 24 Serial FPDP Channels Using FPGAs in conjunction with the Serial FPDP (sFPDP) interconnect makes for a powerful combination. Such a solution has enormousRead More...
Serial FPDP Boards
FPDP Boards Maintain Niche in High-Bandwidth Apps
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
January 2010
Many kinds of high-performance embedded computing systems in the military market have an appetite for high-speed data from sensors. Often such input is presented as one or moreRead More...
XMCs and Processor XMCs
XMC and PrXMC Roundup
December 2009
Rugged 10 Gbit Ethernet XMC Sports Dual Front-Panel Interfaces The military has completely embraced Ethernet both as a network technology and as a fabric interconnect scheme. WithRead More...
XMCs and Processor XMCs
XMCs and PrXMCs Open Door to New Levels of Performance
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
December 2009
Mezzanine cards have held an entrenched position in military embedded systems since the early days of SBCs and standard backplanes. They enable system developers to mix and match theRead More...
Rugged Stand-Alone Box Systems
Rugged Box Systems Tighten Their Military Focus
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
November 2009
Over the past couple of years, traditional embedded board vendors have been adding stand-alone rugged box-level systems to their military market offerings. These complete systemRead More...
Rugged Stand-Alone Box Systems
Rugged Stand-Alone Box System Roundup
November 2009
Rugged System Features Military Connectors The stand-alone rugged box trend has touched nearly every corner of the military embedded computer market. ADLINK Technology, for its part,Read More...
PXI, VXI and LXI Boards
PXI, VXI and LXI Boards Each Find Their Instrumentation Strengths
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
October 2009
At one time, it took a whole rack of test gear to implement military and aerospace test systems. Now that same functionality can be built using standards-based instrumentation andRead More...
PXI, VXI and LXI Boards
PXI, VXI and LXI Boards Roundup
October 2009
16-bit PXI Digitizers Boast up to 40 MS/s Sampling High-channel count and simultaneous sampling are the watchwords for a variety of military test applications. Feeding those needs,Read More...
Solid-State Disk Drives
SSDs Gain Capacity and Embrace SATA Interface
Jeff Child Editor-in-Chief
September 2009
Because they have no moving parts, flash-based solid-state disks (F-SSDs) are able to operate under harsher conditions than magnetic hard disk drives. And since F-SSDs targeted forRead More...
Solid-State Disk Drives
Solid-State Drives Roundup
September 2009
Serial ATA Flash Drive Boasts Stacking Technology Serial ATA is quickly becoming the dominant storage interface technology—in both flash and rotating disks. Apacer has launched itsRead More...
Small Form Factor Boards
Small Form Factor Boards Meet SWaP Challenges
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
August 2009
Long gone now is the era when a military embedded computer by definition meant a rack of board-level systems. Now complete computing systems easily fit on the area of a napkin or evenRead More...
Small Form Factor Boards
Small Form Factor Boards Roundup
August 2009
Atom-Based SBC Uses SUMIT I/O Interface The SUMIT expansion interface reinvents stackable and mezzanine architectures by packing an enormous amount of data bandwidth and easyRead More...
VPX, VXS and VME SBCs
Systems Issues Drive VME, VXS and VPX SBC Trends
Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief
July 2009
The military is hungry to put VPX to work in both new and legacy/upgrade programs. System developers are attracted to the increased potential bandwidth, level-2 maintenance features,Read More...
VPX, VXS and VME SBCs
VPX, VXS and VME SBCs Roundup
July 2009
VME SBC Boasts Latest Low-Power Core2 Duo Processor Perhaps the greatest triumph of VME is its capability to maintain backward compatibility while remaining suited to incorporatingRead More...
