The VPX STANDARD and Its Use in Military Applications

Date: July 29, 2009
Overview:
The VITA standard VPX - also known as VITA 46 - provides military VME bus-based systems with support for switched fabrics over a high-speed connector. It promises near-supercomputer performance in small embedded form factors such as 3U that never took off with traditional VME. While VPX systems are already in development for U.S. defense programs there are still many technological issues ...

 

Implementing High Performance Embedded Applications with RapidIO Switching and High Performance Multicore DSPs

Originally Broadcast: April 29, 2009
Overview:
In this webinar, jointly presented by the RapidIO® Trade Association, Texas Instruments and Tundra Semiconductor, viewers will be introduced to the RapidIO standard, its positioning in the embedded interconnect world relative to PCI Express® and Gigabit Ethernet and the various benefits of the protocol for peer-to-peer embedded networking in the context of clusters of multiple ...

 

Thermal Management: Getting Rid of the Heat

Originally Broadcast: January 28, 2009
Overview:
Thermal and power management is widely considered to be the crucial link in the ability to embrace high-performance computing technology in military system design. Current and future generation processors create escalating thermal demands on military designers. This webcast with industry expert Gerald Janicki, will look at the latest solutions for improving power efficiency through ...

 

Beyond the Sensor: Accessing Vital Information at the Tactical Edge

Originally Broadcast: October 28, 2008
Overview:
The Converged Sensor Network(TM) Architecture from Mercury Computer Systems combines the power of information management - fusion, exploitation, and dissemination - with signal and image processing to deliver transformational access to information at the tactical edge of the battlefield. This webcast will review this novel architecture, explore ...

 

How High Bandwidth Military Embedded Systems are Forcing a New Architectural Paradigm

Originally Broadcast: July 29, 2008
Overview:
Developers of modern embedded military multi-computing systems face pressure on multiple fronts. The need for more capabilities drives the requirement for more processing and greater communications bandwidths.
This is combined with the ever-present need to reduce size, weight, and power, and increasingly demanding time to deployment pressures. As a result, developers and system ...