White Paper: Abaco Systems and networking: what can we do for you?

Staff (Abaco Systems)

Solving networking problems

Keep Factories Humming with Predictive Maintenance

Jeff Munch (Chief Technology Officer, ADLINK Technology)

IIoT Distributed Analytics Solution Optimizes Asset Management

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]

ISR signal processing brings performance to sensors and enables AI at the edge

John McHale (Editorial Director )

Military intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) applications continue to make demands on signal-processing designers for more performance, better thermal management, and reduced size, weight, and power (SWaP). These systems - as they move closer to the sensor on various platforms - are... [read more]

Power distribution from the ground up

Mariana Iriarte (Associate Editor)

Military ground vehicles today are carrying more complicated payloads that often include command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. No longer only used for transportation, these platforms have become mobile command centers - like the ... [read more]

MicroTCA Workshop Report at DESY

Justin Moll (Vice President of Marketing at PICMG)

In early December 2017, I had the honor of delivering one of the keynote speeches at the DESY MicroTCA Workshop in Hamburg, Germany. The workshop was well-attended, as 183 participants from 25 institutes and 23 companies gathered to share the latest developments in MicroTCA hardware, software, and a... [read more]

PCIe/104 - The "fishal" recognition revolution in fish counting

Rory Dear (Technical Contributor)

Fish-count surveys are vital in ensuring the conservation and management of fish stocks in our increasingly overfished seas. The accuracy of those surveys is critical in providing evidence of overfishing to drive restorative and preventative legislation. Traditional fish-counting is inherently manua... [read more]

Battlefield servers demand design for heat, spares, and application portability

Chris A. Ciufo (General Micro Systems)

Freezing conditions at 40,000 feet; scorching heat in the Middle East. These are the world's battlefields for rugged servers.

Using thermofluid simulation to optimize liquid cooling of avionics power systems

Mike Croegaert (Mentor)

Liquid cooling for military signal processing offers advantages in high-power-density systems to dissipate heat at a higher rate than air-cooled systems and to transfer heat further away efficiently for thermal signature control. When using liquid-cooling systems, the challenge is to meet size, weig... [read more]

Augmented reality and video-management systems

Kevin Rooney (Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions)

Over the last few years, the concept of augmented reality, in which computer-generated imagery is combined with views of the real world, has become mainstream. Formerly found only in very high-end applications, such as helmet-based heads-up displays for fighter-jet pilots, this next-generation graph... [read more]

VPX: Is it the optimum form factor for electronic warfare and sensor processing systems?

Mark Littlefield (Kontron)

The VPX form factor is used today for a wide range of applications and deployed environments. Applications vary from rail management systems to active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars on high-performance fighter aircraft, and environments vary from lab-benign (or near-lab conditions like w... [read more]

No room for compromise in supply chain security: New DoD initiative establishes benchmark for strategic ICT sourcing

Phil Gallagher (Avnet)

In response to the growing nexus between physical risk (counterfeits) and cyber risk (infiltration of systems and exfiltration of data) the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has introduced a new policy adding security as a fundamental pillar of federal acquisition and supply chain risk management. Co... [read more]

VITA 67: VPX coaxial interconnect

Jerry Gipper (Editorial Director)

One of the biggest challenges for VPX system designers is the management of I/O [input/output] to and from the modules. VPX leaves a lot of room for handling all types of I/O and the teams working on the standards have brought some excellent solutions to market.

CompactPCI Serial reaches out into space

Manfred Schmitz ( MEN Mikro Elektronik)

Recently, the U.S.-based Internet service provider OneWeb ordered 900 satellites to provide additional global broadband. Knowing that this volume is more than half of the total 1,400 satellites already in orbit, and knowing that the cost for sending one into space is about $100 million, the industry... [read more]

ATCA and its hardware platform management at 15 years: How can I use them now?

Mark Overgaard (Pentair Electronics Protection)

The ATCA [advanced telecommunications computing architecture] standard was adopted at the end of 2002; since that time, billions of dollars of ATCA-based products have shipped worldwide. The bulk of those products have gone into demanding high-end telecom applications worldwide, but there are numero... [read more]

Lockheed Martin continues fighting cybercrime for DoD

Sally Cole (Senior Editor )

A recently won $347 million contract enables Lockheed Martin to continue overseeing the world's largest accredited digital forensics lab for five more years, as the company continues its role as the prime contractor for the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3). Operating unde... [read more]

2017 marks significant changes for PICMG

Jessica Isquith (President of PICMG)

Last year ended with the loss of Joe Pavlat, who successfully led this organization for over 20 years. He worked with members to establish PICMG as a global leader in open standards for embedded computing. We are grateful for his service and will continue to build and improve the organization he hel... [read more]

COM Express hot among military electronics users while CompactPCI levels off

John McHale (Editorial Director)

PICMG standards such as CompactPCI have been leveraged for years in aerospace and defense applications such as communications, avionics, and satellites. Today, the fastest growing standard from the PICMG experts is COM Express, thanks to its flexibility and reduced size, weight, and power (SWaP) cha... [read more]

Recent developments based on PICMG xTCA for Physics standards

Ray Larsen (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory); Kay Rehlich (DESY); Andrew Young (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

The xTCA for Physics PICMG standards work began in 2009 after several years of investigation into the suitability of ATCA as a controls platform for several new accelerators then under consideration.

Collaboration equals innovation

Jessica Isquith (President of PICMG)

What continues to make PICMG successful as a standards body is our community of members and your collaboration in pursuit of innovation. As officers of PICMG, our mission is to shepherd and encourage that collaboration, making sure that the process moves along and that member voices are heard. The s... [read more]

Very high-speed sampling and serial ADCs in embedded systems

Thierry Wastiaux (Interface Concept)

Latest-generation active electronically scaled array (AESA) radar systems can have thousands of TX/RX modules. High bandwidth is needed to connect each array element data converter to the FPGAs that process incoming and generate outgoing data streams. New software-defined radio systems use advanced ... [read more]

Seeking a unified hardware approach for IIoT control

Brandon Lewis (Technology Editor )

Although the Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged in every market segment, its implementation varies widely. In the Industrial IoT (IIoT), for example, a much more robust, reliable set of technologies is required than in the consumer world. Here, technology standards organizations will play an impor... [read more]

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]

Liquid cooling expands application spectrum for CompactPCI computers

Manuel Murer (EKF Elektronik); Wolfgang K. Weber (EKF Elektronik)

In early December 2017, I had the honor of delivering one of the keynote speeches at the DESY MicroTCA Workshop in Hamburg, Germany. The workshop was well-attended, as 183 participants from 25 institutes and 23 companies gathered to share the latest developments in MicroTCA hardware, software, and a... [read more]

White Paper: Why Low Quiescent Current Matters for Longer Battery Life

Meng He (Maxim Integrated)

Even though it's typically nominal, quiescent current can be a significant factor in managing battery life for wearables and other small devices.

White Paper: Offering Summary

Mauris Griffin (Zekel Healthcare)

Zekel Healthcare technology with new designed platforms, various applications, mobility, tools, apps for healthcare management for Alzheimers Disease, related diseases.

White Paper: Safe battery charging in wearables and other small systems

Kanji Kerai (Dialog Semiconductor Inc)

The wearables sector is growing fast - and will continue to grow for some years to come. Progress is being made in both the power consumption of systems and the potential for energy harvesting. But the wearable that charges itself from the environment remains a distant goal. Hence, powering wearable... [read more]

White Paper: The Intel(r) IoT Platform - Architecture Specification, Internet of Things (IoT)

Staff (Intel)

Connect nearly any type of device to the cloud. System Architecture Specification to help in the development and deployment of IoT solutions.

Life cycle management, semiconductor re-creation, and mitigating counterfeit parts

John McHale (Editorial Director)

Obsolescence management continues to be a challenge for military system designers, who are faced with designing for platforms that must last decades but using components that become obsolete in 18 months. In the following Q and A with Daniel Deisz, Director of Design Technology at Rochester Electron... [read more]

White Paper: Agile Development -- Why requirements matter

Staff (IBM)

Agile methods offer four key benefits that are driving agile’s adoption by teams developing complex products and systems.

White Paper: A Ten Point Guide for Managing Requirements for the Internet of Things (IoT)

Staff, Tech-Clarity, Inc. (IBM)

IoT introduces new levels of product complexity. To be successful, companies need new ways to manage this complexity. Getting it right starts with the requirements. IoT creates new considerations for defining and managing requirements.

White Paper: Faster Development of Safe, Smart Railway Solutions with SIL Level COTS Components

Staff (MEN Micro Elektronik GmbH)

In the coming years, the digitalization of the rail industry will be the dominant task for train and track operators as well as for the OEMs and automation vendors that supply them. The aim is to make rail transport safer, more efficient and customer-friendly.