Thanks to its longevity and modularity, the PC/104 standard continues to be popular with military system designers, especially, as their size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements continue to shrink.

William Wong with Electronic Design discusses how cooling is always a challenge in rugged embedded applications, especially military applications.

John Keller with Military & Aerospace Electronics considers how virtual-machine technology, fast interconnects, innovative thermal-management techniques, and modular architectures bring data-center power to embedded computing.

Mike Southworth discusses the combination of today’s latest COTS hardware and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) modernization initiatives.

The growing deployment of single board computers in military systems brings with it a number of engineering challenges.

John McHale with Military Embedded Systems discusses radiation testing and qualification requirements for defense and space agencies are getting tougher and embracing TOR standards.

The aerospace and defense embedded COTS market has started to see whole new classes of small and ultra-small line-replaceable unit (LRU) offerings.