Mike Demler, Editorial Director —
Staying cool is not easy in many of today’s densely packaged embedded computing systems. To really get the heat out can sometimes call for some liquid refreshment. Elma Electronic Inc. has a new rugged 1 ATR tall, short enclosure with independent dual liquid-cooled side walls that of...
Mike Demler, Editorial Director —
In today’s world of serial switch fabric backplanes, it is very difficult to make fabric protocol decisions. Having a solution that removes the need to make this decision up front is very desirable to system designers. The CSP Inc. FastCluster 3000 Series OpenVPX platforms deliver un...
Mike Demler, Editorial Director —
Solving the product life-cycle dilemma has been an increasing challenge for suppliers of embedded computing systems, especially if the target markets comprise defense applications that require product life cycles well in excess of 10 years. Aitech Defense Systems, Inc. is taking a three-ph...
Mike Demler, Editorial Director —
Server class processing and networking are very difficult to package into a 6U VPX-sized board.
The thermal management and power challenges are very difficult at best. Eurotech subsidiary
Parvus has overcome the challenge with the CPU-111-10, a rugged, high-performance 6U VPX SBC featuring...
Mike Demler, Editorial Director —
As board products have become more integrated and functionally denser, getting RF signals directly on to the board is increasingly desirable. Previous generation blade technology did not always have consistent methods for getting RF to the processing elements on the blade. Often an additio...
Mike Demler, Editorial Director —
Designing with data converters using FPGA technology can present many configuration challenges. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could get a quick start with preconfigured IP that gets you over the startup hurdles? The Model 71651 software radio module, a new XMC form factor Multichannel d...
Mike Demler, Editorial Director —
Analog signals can never be digitized too fast, it seems, based on the wave of A/D modules hitting the market these days. Accordingly, Pentek announced its fastest-ever data acquisition module for the popular Cobalt family. The Model 71640, in FMC form factor, provides a substantial jump i...
Mike Demler, Editorial Director —
FPGAs are everywhere these days, doing nothing but getting faster and enabling new levels of signal processing and I/O flexibility. Designed for Digital Signal Processing (DSP), the versatile TIC-FEP-VPX3b front-end processing board from Elma Electronic is ideal for applications such as ra...
Mike Demler, Editorial Director —
VME and VXS get into gear with the high-speed A/D Pallene-V6, from TEK Microsystems. The Pallene-V6 combines three Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs with Texas Instruments ADS54RF63 12-bit A/D converters, supporting eight channels at up to 550 MSps with sample accurate synchronization across multiple...
Mike Demler, Editorial Director —
VME64 single board computers are still showing up as new products, and they are more connected than ever. The IOxOS Technologies IPV_1102, based on Freescale’s PowerPC P2020 computing core and Xilinx Virtex-5T FPGA, is a great example. The IPV_1102 can extend its capabilities beyond...
