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XMCs and Processor XMCs Roundup
XMC Marries Virtex-5 FPGA, PCIe and Deep Memory A set of mezzanine modules from Acromag features a configurable Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA enhanced with multiple high-speed memory buffersRead More...
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Serial FPDP Board Roundup
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...
FPDP Boards Maintain Niche in High-Bandwidth Apps
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...
XMC and PrXMC Roundup
XMC Module Serves Up Configurable FPGA, Digital I/O To address the need for low-cost configurable FPGA computing solutions, a series of new XMC-SLX mezzanine modules from AcromagRead More...
XMC and PrXMC Roundup
XMC Module Serves Up Configurable FPGA, Digital I/O To address the need for low-cost configurable FPGA computing solutions, a series of new XMC-SLX mezzanine modules from AcromagRead More...
Rugged 3U Carrier Card for XMC Is OpenVPX-Compliant
Rugged 3U Carrier Card for XMC Is OpenVPX-Compliant With last year’s OpenVPX Working Group coming to fruition, compatible OpenVPX-based products are rolling out quickly. TheRead More...
Multi-Camera Image Processor Card 350 Mpixels/s Streams
Multi-Camera Image Processor Card 350 Mpixels/s Streams Designed to serve real-time multi-camera image processing applications such as used by the military in situationalRead More...
Conduction-Cooled cPCI Board Roundup
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...
XMC Video Graphics Card Offers Two Video Inputs
The concept of using graphics processors for general computing tasks is catching on fast in the military. Tech Source offers the Condor 2100x XMC video graphics card with twoRead More...
Virtex-6 FPGA Module Targets Radar and Telemetry Apps
The latest high-end FPGAs have been a real game-changer for radar and telemetry system designs. Pentek's 71620 module is a multichannel, high-speed data converter XMC that is designedRead More...
Ethernet Switch Boards Roundup
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.Read More...
OpenVPX Flourishes as it Readies for Prime Time
The goal of bringing together advanced switch fabric interconnects and all the features of a modern, rugged embedded computer architecture, is finally happening in the form of OpenVPX.Read More...
FPGA Boards Rev Up for Signal Processing Duties
Military applications like sonar, radar, SIGINT and software radio—all of which rely on heavy amounts of waveform processing—continue to leverage advances in FPGA technology. FasterRead More...
8 Gbit/s Fibre Channel Climbs onto XMC Form Factor
Although the PMC mezzanine form factor enjoyed a healthy run and is still popular, it can't accommodate the fast speeds of today's high-speed serial interconnects. XMC has solvedRead More...
PCIe-over-Cable Products Offer Cost-Effective Solutions
PCI Express is the only bus that can effectively extend over cable without requiring software conversion and thus incurring increased overhead and latency. That means what happensRead More...
Processing Solutions Ease Full Motion Video Challenges
In recent years demand for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities has driven a huge ramp up in data collection capacity. While that shows no signs of slowing,Read More...
XMCs and PrXMCs Fuel High-Speed Throughput and Processing
The long-popular PCI-based PMC and Processor PMC (PrPMC) each have their respective successors in the form of XMC and PrXMC. XMCs enable system developers to mix and match theRead More...
Curtiss-Wright Controls Introduces New Quad-Channel MIL-STD-1553 Module
The venerable 1553 interconnect may seem like yesterday’s news, but demand for the legacy bus still drives new development. Along such lines, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded ComputingRead More...
OpenVPX Strengthens Its Hand for Military Embedded Designs
Military system developers have long faced a conflicting desire to harness the latest and greatest computing technologies versus the need to mitigate the risks inherent in banking onRead More...
COTS Journal’s OpenVPX Solutions Center
Rugged 6U VPX SBC Has Integrated Onboard I/O Resources Aitech Defense Systems has introduced a rugged 6U VPX SBC that offers the selection between PCI Express and Serial RapidIO.Read More...
Ruggedized XMC Module Provides +28V General Purpose I/O
Extreme Engineering Solutions is now shipping the XPort9100, a ruggedized XMC module that supports eight +28V general purpose input/output (GPIO) channels, commonly used to controlRead More...
Secure Rugged SATA SSD XMC Card Has Data Encryption
Solid-state disk drives offer key advantages for military users such as enhanced security and secure erase. Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC) has announced theRead More...
Ethernet Switch Boards Roundup
10 Gbit Ethernet XMC Provides Dual Front-Panel Interfaces The military has completely embraced Ethernet both as a network technology and as a fabric interconnect scheme. With that inRead More...
H.264 XMC Card Eases Video Compression Challenges
Tech Source has introduced the low-power Condor VC 100x H.264 video capture and compression card designed to ease the video compression challenges in UAVs and in other surveillance,Read More...
