Military Embedded Systems
Article

M-Code Brings Next-Gen GPS to SWaP-Constrained Ground Vehicles

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

11/25/2015
Military Embedded Systems
Article

AltiVec is back

NXP’s new T-series processor has brought back the AltiVec floating point SIMD instruction set, the heart of many defense and aerospace digital signal processing (DSP) applications for the last two decades.

11/23/2015
Aerospace Testing International
Article

Close to the Action: Small, remote and connected-new approaches to flight test instrumentation

Flight test instrumentation (FTI) engineers face a number of challenges when instrumenting aircraft, including an increasing push to reduce weight of equipment and wiring, gather more and more data, and the need to meet demanding time schedules while ensuring no data is lost.

11/23/2015
Military Embedded Systems
Article

OpenVPX Standard Hits Five Years of Enabling Interoperability in Military Embedded Systems

John McHale with Military Embedded Systems discusses with industry experts how the OpenVPX standard has evolved since it's debut in 2010.

10/22/2015
Military Embedded Systems
Article

CERDEC becomes VITA's sponsor member followed by Curtiss-Wright initiative to support the U.S. Army's MORA

At the AUSA 2015 show, VITA announced their newest sponsor member, the U.S. Army’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center (CERDEC), who is developing the U.S. Army’s Modular Open RF Architecture (MORA).

10/16/2015
Military Embedded Systems
Article

Trusted Boot in COTS Computing

Mike Slonosky discusses the architects and integrators challenges as customers implement increasing requirements for safety- and security-critical applications.

10/02/2015
Military Embedded Systems
Article

Broadwell chip boosts GPU performance for COTS SBCs

Aaron Frank discusses the benefits of Intel's new Broadwell processor to embedded defense applications.

09/14/2015
Electronic Design
Article

What’s Next After VPX?

Steve Edwards discusses the past and present of standards such as VPX's ability to handle the demands of high-performance embedded computing applications.

09/08/2015