The Air Transport Rack (ATR), aka Austin Trumbull Radio, has been the packaging format of choice for commercial and military avionics platforms. ...
Category: Articles
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...
We’ve been closely associated with Tundra for a long time (formerly Newbridge Microsystems back in the “old” days). Originally ...
Bob Morris has been around mission- and safety-critical software for a long time. After moving to longtime Ada specialist DDC-I a few years ago h...
VME-based embedded subsystems users have, over the past couple of years, come to face decisions they did not have to previously. For example, the...
Status updates on the latest VITA standards such as 48.0, 48.1, and 48.2 are provided, among others. (more…)
The military’s venerable MIL-HDBK-217 has been around for more than 40 years; it’s time to add some quantitative and practical recomm...
While x86 processors continue to creep into VME backplanes for command and control applications, PowerPCs still do most of the heavy lifting in a...