RTC Magazine

Wireless Sensor Networks: Maintenance-Free or Battery-Free?

Today, we are entering this third wireless wave. Also known as “The Internet of Things,” the third wave utilizes wireless sense and control technology to bridge the gap between theRead More...

The Taming of the Multicore

In the popular Shakespeare comedy, The Taming of the Shrew, Lucentio travels to Padua to attend school at the local university. Upon his arrival he meets the beautiful Bianca and,Read More...

New FPGAs Transform Real-Time Systems Architectures

FPGAs regularly steal headlines in current industry news for impressive feats of digital signal processing in radar and software radio applications. And, rightfully so! Many new FPGARead More...

Industry Insider

COMIT Interface Standard for Next-Generation COM Products The Small Form Factor Special Interest Group (SFF-SIG), a collaboration of suppliers of embedded component, board and systemRead More...

Meeting the Demand for COTS Safe and Secure Certification Evidence

The demand for safety and security certification evidence for hardware and software in systems has increased dramatically in recent years. In the past, this evidence was developedRead More...

Products & Technology

Extreme Rugged Methodology Comes to Mid-Range ETX As part of an initiative to extend its Extreme Rugged product lines, Adlink Technology has announced the first new Ampro byRead More...

Recent Trends in FPGAs Drive Adoption in Mil Apps

The adoption of FPGAs into rugged applications continues to increase at a rapid pace thanks to a number of factors. These factors, which make FPGAs more attractive and easier toRead More...

Newest Embedded Technology Used by Industry Leaders

10 GigE Switches Provide IP Carrier Class Routing on 6U cPCI, VME and VPX A family of switches supports jumbo frames, full-wire speed Layer 2 bridging as well as Layer 3 UnicastRead More...

Digital Signal Processors at the Intersection of Form and Function

Hybrid Signal Processing 3U VPX Board Teams DSPs with FPGAs

A new signal processing board features a mix of FPGAs and DSPs in the form of a large Altera Stratix II GX FPGA and one cluster of four ADSP-TS201S TigerSHARC processors from AnalogRead More...

Development Platform Features New Texas Instruments Multicore DSP

Development Platform Features New Texas Instruments Multicore DSP  An off-the¬-shelf multiprocessor, multicore development solution features dual Texas Instruments (TI)Read More...

New Class of Designs Features Latest Expansion of SHARC DSP Portfolio

Analog Devices has unveiled the newest additions to its SHARC portfolio of 32-bit floating point digital signal processors—the SHARC 2148x and SHARC 2147x series. Delivering aRead More...

Virtex-6 FPGA Module for Radar and Telemetry Applications

Virtex-6 FPGA Module for Radar and Telemetry Applications  A multichannel, high-speed data converter XMC module is designed for connection to HF or IF ports for communications,Read More...

Eight New FMC Boards Offer Up to 5 Gig Samples/sec

10Gb Ethernet PCI Express FPGA Accelerator Card

10 Gbit Ethernet PCI Express FPGA Accelerator Card A low-profile PCI Express FPGA accelerator card features a 10 Gbit Ethernet interface directly coupled to a Xilinx FPGA. TheRead More...

What Do We Call the Whatchamacallit?

How is it that very smart people seem to have similar ideas at around the same time? In our industry, when such a thing happens we tend to think of a trend, or in other cases of someRead More...

CPU Architectures Bring C Programmability into Formerly Specialized Devices

Given all the hardware assists that are continually appearing to speed specialized parts of applications such as I/O, signal conditioning, graphics processing, signal processing, etc.,Read More...

2D/3D Signal Processing Module Powered by FPGA

A new signal processing board developed to support the processing needs of NASA and the United States Army in applications that required both high data transfer rates and highRead More...

Beamforming Systems Moving Toward New VPX and FPGA Solutions

Beamforming is a signal processing technique that utilizes an array of sensors to achieve directionality, increase the strength of transmitted signals and improve the quality ofRead More...

OpenVPX Xeon-Based Rugged Server-Class SBC for ISR Applications

Quest Continues for the “Sweet Spot” in Configurable ASIC/SoC Design

For some time now, there has been a quest underway among a number of semiconductor vendors. The “Holy Grail” of this particular quest is to devise the ideal piece of silicon thatRead More...

ReadyFlow Board Support Package Speeds Development

Pentek has announced new features for its ReadyFlow board support package (BSP) to simplify embedded development for its Cobalt, Xilinx Virtex-6 based FPGA module family. EnhancementsRead More...

DSPs with PCI Express Interface Expand Embedded Connectivity Options

While PCI Express (PCIe) has become wildly successful throughout virtually all market segments, a few were slower to adopt this powerful serial interconnect standard. Wireless baseRead More...

A Floating Point Co-Processor for FPGAs

There was a time when if an application had some special functions that needed to be executed very fast and often, one alternative was to use an FPGA as a special-purpose co-processorRead More...

Virtex-6 Signal Processing Board Family Moves to CompactPCI System Designs

  Pentek has announced that its popular Cobalt board family is now available for use in CompactPCI (cPCI) systems. The migration to cPCI gives system designers full access to Pentek’sRead More...

An Integrated Real-Time Platform Can Deliver Improved DSP Performance at Lower Costs

Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) have specialized architectures that are optimized for heavy math computations and they have dominated the real-time digital signal processing marketRead More...

Building Scalable Network Processing Platforms with Multicore Processors

As excited new users charge their latest mobile device for the first time, little thought is given to the challenges these new devices bring to the infrastructure that must supportRead More...

Serial RapidIO Reaches a Crossroads with PCIe in Intel-Based DSP Designs

DSP systems designed for use in today’s signal processing applications require optimal bandwidth and reliability in rugged environments. To deliver the near real-time processing ofRead More...

VPX Board Set with High-End DSP for Aero and SIGINT

Two modules, both designed to meet demanding SIGINT, COMINT and radar processing applications, together with  FPGA engines and FMC I/O modules from Curtiss-Wright Controls EmbeddedRead More...

Four-Channel, 1.25 GHz D/A Module for Beamforming and Multichannel Waveform Generation

A high-performing D/A converter module for RF and IF waveform playback delivers four independent analog outputs, each through its own digital upconverter.  It also offers 16-bit D/ARead More...

First in a Family of Virtex-7 FPGA SDR Modules for UAV, Radar and Communications

The first member of a new high-performance software defined radio module—the Onyx family from Pentek—is a 4-channel, 200 MHz A/D XMC module based on the Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA family.Read More...

PCI Express Radar Acquisition Card

A new PCI Express-based primary radar acquisition card indicates the continued response to the growing adoption of the PCI Express bus as the primary motherboard-level interconnect onRead More...

Family of Accelerated Processors Opens the Doors to New Embedded Possibilities