Articles
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Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) continue to shrink in size, as do their payloads, requiring system designers to leverage small-form-factor, embedded-computing standards like COM Express, PC/104, and others.
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Enhance cooling on COM Express Type 7 server-on-modules
The processing demands in carrier-grade telecommunication infrastructures, server farms, and distributed Internet of Things (IoT) edge and fog server applications are increasing rapidly. The level of processing now needed is driving the development of a new generation of modular servers that are more powerful but smaller, and integrate more cores but consume less power per core.
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Discrete vs distributed: Transforming military training and simulation systems
Advances such as augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) are redefining expectations of quality and performance in increasingly diverse military training scenarios. These improvements also demonstrate the need for a philosophical change in system design strategy as system engineers prepare for the next generation of "training as a service." Developers must move away from discrete systems and toward more distributed training environments that are capable of delivering point-of-need training via a single synthetic training environment.
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Oscilloscope segmented memory and pulse analysis software provide FM chirp pulsed RF evaluation
A class of pulsed radio frequency (RF), microwave, and mmWave applications present a measurement challenge to radar and electronic warfare (EW) designers due to the need for wide analysis bandwidth, as well as a desire to evaluate a significant time period of system activity. Segmented memory in wideband oscilloscopes may be used, including pulse analysis software, to address these challenges. Radar and EW applications can also be further explored in terms of pulse amplitude, frequency and phase measurements, and optimizing accuracy.
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Unmanned aircraft leverage PC/104, COM Express, and other small form factors
Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) continue to shrink in size, as do their payloads, requiring system designers to leverage small-form-factor, embedded-computing standards like PC/104, COM Express, and others.
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PC/104 a presence at Embedded World 2016
PC/104 had a strong showing at the recent Embedded World 2016 trade show in Nuremberg, Germany. Slick PC/104 demonstrations showed robust graphics processing, industrial Internet of Things (IoT) gateways, innovative Ethernet switches, ARM/FPGA combinat...
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The road to achieving teraflop-scale computing in AdvancedTCA
The proposal: Develop a high-performance machine vision design for use in an industrialized environment, requiring overall high availability and reliability. The challenge: To develop a high-density imaging platform that could scale up to multiple 42U racks.
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Adding advanced server-management features to ATCA IPMCs
With substantial convergent forces pushing data center and network center functionality together, AdvancedTCA (ATCA) server blades can further strengthen their management credentials by adding advanced server-management facilities at the hardware platform management (HPM) level.
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Embedded World 2016 show big for PICMG
The Embedded World Exhibition and Conference, which was held in February in Nuremberg, Germany, was a major meeting point for PICMG member companies and those who were looking for PICMG standards-based products and technologies.
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PICMG standards updates, improvements
Below are highlights from the current efforts of the PICMG technical community to update and improve a number of popular PICMG standards.
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Adding IoT friendliness to AdvancedTCA and related specifications
The Internet of Things vision of a massively Internet-connected world is rapidly coming to fruition, along with numerous associated challenges. One of them, exhaustion of the available public Internet Protocol (IP) addresses in traditional IP version 4 (IPv4) is already upon us. Along with many other improvements, IP version 6 (IPv6), which was formalized way back in 1998, grows IP addresses from 32 bits to 128 bits, massively expanding the number of devices that can be addressed.
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PICMG: Year in review
PICMG enjoyed a busy year with a number of technical subcommittees working on and releasing updates to existing specifications. Most of the work has been related to new revisions of popular technologies. 2016 will see a continuation of these efforts, a...
John McHale, Editorial Director
Franz Fischer, congatec, Inc.
Stephen St. Amant, PC/104 Consortium President
André van Herk, Prodrive Technologies
