Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions division introduced its first 3U OpenVPX GPGPU processor module designed in compliance with the U.S. Army CCDC C5ISR Center’s C4ISR/EW Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) and aligned with standards currently being defined by The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Consortium. Developed to support compute-intensive ISR and EW systems, this fully rugged […]
Aerospace and Defense
Rad-hardened Arm MCU includes added embedded analog capabilities
Deep space initiatives including planetary exploration, orbiter missions and space research require innovative spacecraft system technology providing connectivity and processing. To enable system designers better integration and higher performance while reducing development costs and time to market, COTS technologies and scalable solutions are increasingly used in space applications. Microchip Technology Inc. today announced the qualification […]
Touch-control board optimized for thick-gloved touches
Introducing the mXT2952TD touch controller board, the latest innovation from DATA MODUL. Designed for PCAP touch applications in the medium diagonal segment, this controller board offers features that optimize its use in a variety of environments. The new controller board supports the latest generation of microchip touch ICs and features a new type of signal […]
Safety-critical-certified graphics processors target high-integrity cockpit display, navigation, synthetic vision apps
Abaco Systems, Inc. and CoreAVI announced an extension of their partnership through the signing of a licensing agreement that allows Abaco to implement the AMD Embedded Radeon E9171 GPU, associated COTS-D hardware IP, and Vulkan graphics and compute capabilities from CoreAVI into a new rugged embedded graphics processor to be produced and delivered by Abaco. […]
SBC, avionics I/O boards optimized for flight-certifiable applications
The SBC314C single-board computer and RAR15XC avionics data bus communications XMC mezzanine board are for embedded flight-certifiable applications. Previously only available as part of the FORCE2C rugged line replaceable unit (LRU), the two are now each available as separate boards. The SBC314C 3U VPX single board computer, based on the NXP QorIQ T2081 Multicore Communications […]
nvSRAM qualified to QML-Q and high-reliability industrial specifications
Infineon Technologies LLC announced the availability of its second-generation non-volatile Static RAMs (nvSRAM). The new generation of devices are qualified for QML-Q and high-reliability industrial specifications to support demanding non-volatile code storage and data-logging applications in harsh environments, including aerospace and industrial applications. The 256 kb STK14C88C and 1 Mb STK14CA8C nvSRAMs are qualified in […]
MPPT chip boosts efficiency of space-constrained solar harvesters
Designers of space-constrained designs can now significantly increase runtime with the MAX20361 single-/multi-cell solar harvester with maximum power point tracking (MPPT) from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. The industry’s smallest solar harvesting solution is ideal for space-constrained applications such as wearables and emerging internet of things (IoT) applications. Designers are often challenged with the tradeoff between […]
3U VPX FPGA board aligns with SOSA technical standard
The VP831 from Abaco Systems is the next generation of the company’s VP889, the 3U VPX FPGA board now with 100G Ethernet on a design which is aligned with Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) technical standard. This release provides our customers with an upgrade path to the latest technology, providing more bandwidth and increased processing […]
Rad-tolerant quad ARM Cortex space processor passes 100krad TID testing
Teledyne e2v has announced that its popular LS1046-Space processor has now passed stringent total ionizing dose (TID) radiation tests, achieving 100krad resilience. This multi-core device, which features four 64-bit Arm Cortex A72 processing cores, was able to operate as normal after the TID tests had been undertaken. These results complement those previously obtained in terms […]
Latest release of ROS allow for rapid development, testing, debugging of distributed robotics system
Real-Time Innovations (RTI) announced the availability of the Connext 6 ROS Middleware Wrapper (RMW) Layer, bringing the field-proven, production-grade strength of RTI Connext 6 to the latest release of the Robot Operating System (ROS 2). Robotics software developers can now leverage the ROS 2 ecosystem together with RTI Connext Tools to more rapidly develop, test, and debug […]