Press Releases
Curtiss-Wright Controls Extends Lifetime of Popular Rugged CompactPCI SBC
Scheduled EOL of SCP/DCP-124 SBC extended out to 2016
Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions Introduces New Family of Hybricon® OpenVPX™ Pass-Through Backplanes
Flexible, Lower Cost Alternatives to Custom OpenVPX™ Backplanes
Curtiss-Wright Controls Expands Family of Rugged Xilinx® Kintex™ FPGA-based Analog I/O XMC Cards
Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions has announced the XF07-518 Analog I/O XMC, the newest member of its expanding family of Xilinx® Kintex™-7 FPGA-based XMC cards for high-end defense and...
White Papers
COTS Continuum for Defense Systems
Today, most defense programs rely on a multi-tiered supply chain characterized by costly layers of integration and management. Historically, this acquisition structure was necessary and emerged to...
Application Note: Options for Adding Ethernet Ports to Embedded Systems
For applications that need many ports of Ethernet I/O to interface to data bridges or remote I/O units (RIU’s), multiple ports of lower bandwidth may be required to aggregate via a switch or...
Application Note: I/O Expansion for COTS-based Embedded Systems
As multiple PMC/XMCs can support the various additional I/O, a variety of architectures can be created that support specific application requirements.
Articles
Mil system power is cheaper by the dozen (volts)
Eran Strod discusses how system designers have to daily confront the extra work and cost of designing custom power supplies when the different boards they select for their system design fall into...
FACE avionics standard will transform systems design
Curtis Reichenfeld discusses the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE). This open architecture standard enables code development reuse in avionics applications.
SiGe-based ADCs/DACs double COTS Electronic Warfare processing performance
David Jedynak discusses new ADC and DAC technology based on Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) promises unprecedented levels of functionality and capability for demanding signal processing applications.
CWC in the news
Commonality and reduced SWaP drive vetronics designs
Budget cuts and changing strategic priorities have slowed the military vetronics market to one that is flat for the foreseeable future. However, innovation in electronics design has not slowed, as...
Emerging vetronics standards aim to spell VICTORY for tomorrow's combat vehicles
The U.S. and international militaries are teaming with industry to craft an emerging set of vehicle electronics standards, based on Ethernet, to enable rapid vetronics technology development,...
Programmable radar and adaptive electronic warfare take center stage
The new breed of radar and EW can sense the RF environment and adapt itself in nanoseconds for the best possible performance, which is placing new demands on digital signal processing and digital...
Defense Solutions Quarterly
Defense Solutions Quarterly - Issue 1, 2013
Issue 1 of 2013 highlight's protecting mission critical data, using high resolution frame grabbers to simplify and speed integration of video in harsh applications, and video solutions that replace...
Defense Solutions Quarterly - Issue 4, 2012
Issue 4 of 2012 highlight's the Digital Beachhead (a breakthrough COTS solutions for VICTORY), the MPMC-9105 versatile mission computer, and application ready COTS system solutions.
Defense Solutions Quarterly - Issue 3, 2012
Issue 3 of 2012 highlight's chassis built and ready for delivery, a non-ITAR Mission Computer, the high performance processing of the CHAMP-AV8 DSP card, and an introduction to Air Flow Through...
