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
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.
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,...
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...
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...
Eliminating Design Risk from the System Integration Equation
Given the realities of time-to-market pressures, reduced budgets and increased competition, there can be little argument that integrators of military systems get a far bigger return of investment...
