Modernizing a serial processing code to obtain optimal performance on an OpenVPX digital signal processing module

Beau Paisley (Arm); Tammy Carter ( Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions)

Serial algorithms can be evolved to a scalable, multithreaded, multiprocess implementation using ubiquitous and well-established high-performance computing (HPC) programming frameworks such as OpenMP and MPI. Such techniques are used in compute-intensive defense, aerospace, and industrial applicatio... [read more]

The advantages of netbooting for embedded systems

Paul Davis (Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions )

As a greater number of intelligent systems are deployed on platforms such as ground vehicles, aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs), it becomes increasingly challenging to ensure that each of the platform's multiple embedded computers has been updated with ... [read more]

Counterfeit mitigation: The small-company challenge

Shmuel Yankelewitz (LCR Embedded Systems)

It's an unfortunate fact of life that anything of value can - and probably will - be faked at some point. While exciting stories of forged multimillion-dollar paintings and violins might make the news from time to time, the far more pedestrian fact is that counterfeiting of small electronic componen... [read more]

Oscilloscope segmented memory and pulse analysis software provide FM chirp pulsed RF evaluation

Brad Frieden (Keysight Technologies)

A class of pulsed radio frequency (RF), microwave, and mmWave applications present a measurement challenge to radar and electronic warfare (EW) designers due to the need for wide analysis bandwidth, as well as a desire to evaluate a significant time period of system activity. Segmented memory in wid... [read more]

Stacked, high-speed DDR4 and DDR5 memory useful in harsh battle environments

Jennifer Keenan (Mercury Systems )

Today's autonomous and artificial intelligence (AI) military systems process an ever-growing amount of sensor data. To handle this extreme workload, system architects must design boards using the fastest FPGA [field-programmable gate array] devices and Intel multicore processors. These devices canno... [read more]

White Paper: Rugged flash memory: Anatomy of an industrial storage device

Steve Larrivee (Cactus Tech)

The industrial grade flash drives, unlike consumer and enterprise flash drives, boast superior memory, physical construction, and controller architecture and firmware design

White Paper: iTemp MLC Technology of NAND Flash Memory Products

Nicolas Leng, Assistant Manager Embedded SSD BU (ATP Electronics, Inc.)

ATP's ITemp MLC solutions aim at IIoT/field applications in extreme environmental asperity.

Edge-based analytics using general-purpose processors

Nigel Forrester (Concurrent Technologies)

Increasing demand for bandwidth at the network edge is driving the need for easily programmable, low-cost signal processing systems that can scale as data volumes grow. This is leading to the deployment of general-purpose processors in domains traditionally occupied by digital signal processor (DSP)... [read more]

The road to achieving teraflop-scale computing in AdvancedTCA

Martijn de Gouw (Prodrive Technologies); Eric van Uden (Prodrive Technologies); Andre van Herk (Prodrive Technologies)

The proposal: Develop a high-performance machine vision design for use in an industrialized environment, requiring overall high availability and reliability. The challenge: To develop a high-density imaging platform that could scale up to multiple 42U racks.

Foreshadow: Researchers discover another Intel processor vulnerability

Sally Cole (Senior Editor )

Two international teams of security researchers have independently and concurrently discovered “Foreshadow,” a new variant of the hardware vulnerability known as “Meltdown,” which exploits a bypass of Intel processors’ secure regions to access memory and data.

Foreshadow: Researchers discover another Intel processor vulnerability

Sally Cole (Senior Editor)

Two international teams of security researchers have independently and concurrently discovered "Foreshadow," a new variant of the hardware vulnerability known as "Meltdown" that was announced earlier this year. Meltdown can be exploited to bypass Intel processors' secure regions to access memory and... [read more]

Designing a 2 million-point frequency domain filter using OpenCL for FPGA

Dmitry Denisenko (Altera Corporation); Mykhailo Popryaga (Altera Corporation)

Fast Fourier transform (FFT) is the backbone of signal processing applications. For a long time now, FPGA vendors have been providing well-tuned FFT libraries to process data sets that fit in FPGA on-chip memory. But what do you do if your data set is too large? To solve this problem, the FPGA desig... [read more]

White Paper: AXIS Software Development Tools

Staff (Abaco Systems)

Declare independence from your hardware and operating system.

The advantages and disadvantages of using commodity ARM evaluation platforms in production

Eric Rossi (EMAC, Inc)

Most folks in the ARM embedded world are familiar with names like Raspberry PI, BeagleBone, Xplained, etc. These boards, as well as a whole host of others from various ARM board manufacturers, have enticing price points that lure us into considering them for use in production products. This class of... [read more]

White Paper: Intel Xeon D: A Significant Leap Forward in General Purpose Processor (GPP) Technology Across the Spectrum of Defense Applications

Marc Couture (Curtiss-Wright)

Defense platforms and their associated physically constrained payloads have long been the limiting factor in terms of mission capability. In other words, there is a set power budget available, maximum weight and volume limits, and a xed ceiling of heat that can be removed dependent on the particula... [read more]

White Paper: A locked BOM is critical in industrial-grade flash storage designs

Steve Larrivee (Cactus Technologies)

Reliability, endurance, and longer lifecycles are the key requirements in industrial SSD designs. This whitepaper shows how bill-of-material (BOM) control ensures that embedded storage devices can efficiently operate in harsh environments for many years without a disruption.

Trusted boot in COTS computing

Michael Slonosky (Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions )

Mitigate security risks by implementing secure booting so that the system will boot and execute only authentic code.

White Paper: Embedded SSD - Common Failures and Data Integrity Solution

Staff (ATP Electronics)

Flash memory has many benefits over conventional rotating media including compact size, low power consumption, zero seek time, and better shock resistance. However, NAND flash has a limited number of write/erase cycles. There are many sophisticated algorithms for evening out the usage of flash block... [read more]

Mitigating the risk of counterfeit electronics

Ed Smith (Avnet)

Counterfeit parts are a serious business. The top four most-counterfeited components alone affect $281.5 billion worth of semiconductor markets, and it's estimated that electronics-part counterfeiting costs U.S. semiconductor manufacturers around $7.5 billion per year. . The best way to mitigate thi... [read more]

SDR security and shared spectrum challenges

Mariana Iriarte (Associate Editor)

The more challenging the signals become, the more powerful SDR hardware needs to become to handle the signal processing requirements of these wideband signals.

Cool power sensation

Charlotte Adams (Abaco Systems)

GPGPUs, hybrid chips originally developed for gaming are designed for improved power performance, fill a gap for military customers.

White Paper: Optimize Your Software Stack for Industrial Internet of Things

Kerri McConnell (Datalight, Inc.); Wayne Warren (Raima); Kathleen Tufto (Mentor Graphics)

The amount of data IoT devices create, process and transmit is increasing at a daunting rate. Can your software handle this deluge of data? Read the new whitepaper by Datalight, Mentor Graphics, and Raima, Optimize Your Software Stack for Industrial Internet of Things Devices, to learn how you can e... [read more]

Encrypting storage in small form factors

Carey Johnson (Microsemi)

Self-encryption drives that fit into small-form-factor applications.

White Paper: Windows 10 IoT Enterprise

Cristine Valladao, EMEA IoT Lead (Microsoft)

Windows 10 IoT Enterprise is a full version of Windows 10 that powers a range of industry devices across retail, manufacturing, health, government and other industries.

White Paper: WFMC+ Mezzanine Card Evolution for Low Latency and High Bandwidth Solutions

Staff (Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc.)

FMC+ is the next generation of FMC specification (VITA 57.4) that addresses the growing need for high speed wideband analog I/O.

Taking on encryption's usability and key management problems

Sally Cole (Senior Editor)

Key management is the most difficult discipline within cryptography and requires extreme attention to detail.

White Paper: A complete embedded storage solution that is both cost-effective and high-performance

Staff (Silicon Motion)

Over the past few years, an increasing number of solid state storage drives (SSDs) have been appearing in consumer devices. Not surprisingly, servers are now utilizing SSD's superior performance to keep pace with dramatic increase in data traffic - a task that traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) sim... [read more]

White Paper: High-Resolution Measurements with R&S Oscilloscopes

Staff (Rohde & Schwarz GmbH)

With the RTO-K17/RTE-K17 High Definition Option the user will see more signal details with up to 16 bit vertical resolution. In combination with the superior analog front end of the RTO and RTE, the user has a versatile instrument in his hands to analyze a wide range of applications. From Switch Mo... [read more]

Designing COTS for data security

Charlotte Adams (Abaco Systems)

FPGA technology, for example, can be used to provide a "security hub" around which an antitamper strategy can be built.

Standardized COMs provide real reliability: Rugged COM Express

Michael Plannerer (MEN Mikro Elektronik)

Embedded systems continue to pack more performance into less space. This increases the degree and intensity of computing pressure that each element in a system endures.

PICMG: Year in review

Joe Pavlat (Editorial Director); Jessica Isquith (Industry Editor)

White Paper: Optimizing Emulator Utilization

Russ Klein (Mentor Graphics Corporation)

Virtual target running 10x faster eliminates wait time for software developers. Learn more in this white paper.

White Paper: Troubleshooting Data Corruption on NAND Flash Memory

Kerri McConnell, Vice President (Datalight, Inc.)

In the embedded world, frustrating and costly data failures can occur even with the right hardware, software and development. So, what do you do you encounter a failure in the field? Download this troubleshooting guide for tools and methods to help you diagnose data corruption on NAND flash media.