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By: lw Title: Multiplane Architectures in High-end Embedded Defense Systems McQuaid is not talking about backplanes here. Instead, this article reviews high-end military embedded systems that explicitly separate control, data and management planes, placing the embedded architectures on par with leading commercial IT and networking architectures. By: lw Title: Introducing the FeaturePak Embedded I/O Expansion Standard An update on the new 2.55 x 1.70-inch I/O expansion form factor called FeaturePak. The authors provide a comprehensive and largely unbiased look at the scheme. By: dl Title: Migrating to VPX – Without leaving VME behind Pentek’s cofounder and director of engineering points to XMC as the ideal vehicle for implementing critical functions that suit both legacy VME systems and new VPX systems. He supports this with an example digital beam-forming application, implemented on an XMC that can reside on either a VME or VPX carrier board. “Using XMC modules comprising the sophisticated signal processing necessary for digital beamforming and then employing them on VME or VPX carriers,” he writes, “is a smart way to keep a foot in both camps.” By: lw Title: The Application Services Platform: A New Class of Device for Embedded Development and Systems RTC editor in chief Tom Williams reviews a new class of integrated platform in MCU and FPGA worlds, comparing Cypress, Actel (wrongly ID’ed as Atmel in the article), and Xilinx architectures. By: dl Title: FPGA Processing Boards Roundup If you’re looking for an in-depth roundup on FPGA-based processing boards, this is not the article for you. Rather, it’s a brief compilation of available FPGA processing boards, with a photo and a paragraph or two on the major characteristics of each. By: lw Title: High-Speed Digitizers Recapture Innovation as ADCs Yield to FPGAs Wow! Now that FPGAs have replaced DSPs, ASICs and specialized processors, it’s about time for them to take on the standalone data conversion device. Hunt tells us what this means to digitizers. By: lw Title: Advantages of OpenVPX Heard a lot about OpenVPX at this site and elsewhere and need more solid information? Grochmal provides the basics in this overview. By: lw Title: Multicore Processing Becomes the New Mainstream Multicore CPUs may be old hat in IT and commercial embedded worlds, but Child shows how they are only now becoming mainstream for signals intelligence and radar applications. By: lw Title: Slot-card systems vie with Rugged Box Solutions COTS editor Jeff Child compares two alternatives for rugged COTS environments: the slot-card backplane system vs the prepackaged computer. No absolute conclusions are drawn, but this is a good examination of the landscape. By: lw Title: U.S. Navy Avionics Systems Integrators Embrace Open Architectures to Combat Parts Obsolescence COTS articles on Air Force and DoD-wide programs are commonplace, but this article takes the less-common topic of COTS replacement on Navy aircraft. |
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