Ruggedized Embedded Systems

Date: May 20, 2008
Overview:
New standards such as VPX, VPX-REDI and XMC allow for greatly increased performance and have attracted the attention of the military/aerospace industry. Many aspects of these standards provide inherent ruggedness, such as connectors tested to rugged environments, inclusion of conduction cooled form factors, and support for line replaceable modules (LRMs). However, to meet the full ruggedization ...

 

Making the Rugged Connection

Originally Broadcast: February 6, 2008
Overview:
The harsh environment and cannot-fail nature of military applications puts extreme stress and pressure on electronics designers to deliver highly reliable systems and components. This is especially true of connectors for defense electronics, which need to be high-speed and high density as well as able to withstand extreme temperatures and other rugged environmental conditions. This ...

 

Embedded Computing Enables C4ISR

Originally Broadcast: November 28, 2007
Overview:
Aerospace & Defense (A&D) contractors are under increasing pressure from both the U.S. Department of Defense and civilian end customers to develop and deploy computing and communications solutions combining leading-edge technologies and full device life cycle support at an ever-decreasing cost. To achieve these top-level requirements, A&D contractors must continuously reduce size, weight, ...

 

Software Defined Radio: Enabling Warfighter to Warfighter Communication

Originally Broadcast: October 16, 2007
Overview:
Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology will enable warfighters with different radios communicating on different frequencies to communicate seamlessly on future battlefields through programs such as the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS). Software defined radios basically receive a particular waveform, whether a legacy one such as SINCGARS or a new one and pull up the appropriate version ...

 

RapidIO in Military System Design

Originally Broadcast: September 26, 2007
Overview:
The Serial RapidIO switched fabric provides military electronics designers with high-performance I/O capability for network centric-warfare, radar, sonar, and other throughput-intensive applications. Connecting box to box by working through the backplane, RapidIO is widely in use in military applications where heavy duty moving of raw data within the system is necessary. This webcast ...

 

FPGAs Do It All

Originally Broadcast: August 15, 2007
Overview:
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) work across the spectrum of electronic-system design, from basic glue logic at the lower densities, to high-complexity, ASIC-type devices at the high-density end. Their reconfigurability, improved performance, and improved affordability have made them essential to embedded military electronics designers. Market forecasters predict the FPGA market ...

 

Rugged COTS: Enabling Today's Technology for Harsh Environments

Originally Broadcast: July 10, 2007
Overview:
Today's state-of-the-art electronics posses amazing performance attributes, however they are typically not designed for harsh, rugged military environments. Military designers face many difficult challenges in ruggedizing these commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products for military applications where the requirements change from program to program. This webcast with industry experts ...

 

Innovations in Battery and Charger Technologies for Military & Aerospace

Originally Broadcast: June 20, 2007
Overview:
Field and aerospace equipment is becoming more reliant on portable power sources, and is expected to operate in the most extreme environments. This webcast reviews common electrical and mechanical design challenges with powering ruggedized equipment, and then explains how new portable power technologies can overcome these challenges and improve the performance of portable equipment. ...

 

Keeping it Cool: Managing Thermals and Power

Originally Broadcast: June 5, 2007
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 James Robles, will look at the latest solutions for improving power efficiency through cooling ...