After Apple announced its intention to buy PowerPC processor vendor P.A. Semi back in April, rumors began swirling that the big guns at the DoD w...
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3U VME, once a staple of the architecture, faded from the mainstream many years ago. However, the overall benefits of a 3U format have led archit...
It should come as no surprise to you that we are awash in new form factors in the embedded space. Form factors are essentially the size (length, ...
The RapidIO interconnect architecture was designed to be a high-performance, packet-switched, crossbar, or switched pipeline interconnect technol...
It is imperative that engineers design modern avionics hardware (including ASICs or FPGAs) according to DO-254 requirements to ensure highly reli...
By addressing shock and vibration, incorporating advanced cooling techniques, and taking both legacy and future technologies into consideration, ...
Sometimes war is necessary, but the cost of war is always great and many lives are lost. In an effort to diminish the loss of life, some companie...
The Air Transport Rack (ATR), aka Austin Trumbull Radio, has been the packaging format of choice for commercial and military avionics platforms. ...
Adding general purpose I/O to PMC and VME system buses can present some challenges. These include limited COTS I/O module diversity and a lack of...
Defense imaging systems are beginning to deploy advanced sensor technology on small, often unmanned, platforms. Constrained by platform size, sys...