LPC Bus-Legacy Lives On

Legacy buses and I/O appear to be on the chopping block. Large pin count parallel communications buses are being replaced by faster serial architectures. Examples include Serial ATARead 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

High-Density AC-DC Adapters for Medical Applications A series of wall mount switching adapters, designed specifically for medical and information technology equipment (ITE)Read More...

Measure It - Fix It: Go Green by Improving Inefficient Products and Processes

Over the past several years, the cause of all things “green” has gained incredible momentum. From celebrity endorsements to political campaigns to company slogans, reducingRead More...

Software Compatibility with the Flick of a Switch

Ahhh, software. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it. Or so it seems during some projects. In this new world order of limited development budgets, it’s certainly the 800-poundRead More...

Silicon Solutions Enable Migration to Next Generation Networks

A Universal Gateway is a logic solution that can truly provide any port, service, functionality and interworking/translation capability from any protocol to any other protocol in layerRead 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...

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...

Industry Insider

Embedded COTS Vendors Issue Joint Statement on Open Standards Model and VSO Several leading COTS embedded board, subsystem and backplane and enclosure vendors, includingRead 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...

Carrier Boards Enable Applications in PCI Express Environment

Altera's 40-nm Arria II GX FPGAs Meet PCI-SIG Compliance for PCIe 2.0 Spec

6U VME/VXS Signal Generator Boasts Eight 14-bit Channels at 1.2 GSPS

A new FPGA-based multichannel signal generator offers eight 14-bit synchronized data streams at 1.2 Gsample/s analog outputs from an FPGA-based board utilizing three Xilinx Virtex 5Read More...

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...

PMC/XMC Transceiver Module for Wideband Radar Countermeasures and MIL/COTS Apps

A new high-frequency PMC/XMC transceiver module is targeted for high-speed, wideband applications including remote radar countermeasures, tracking and UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)Read More...

Embedded FPGA Processing Platforms: Customization Meets Performance

Embedded processing with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) combines the ultimate in customization and scalable performance. Their ability to adapt and quickly respond to changingRead More...

Newest Embedded Technology Used by Industry Leaders

Industrial USB to Four RS-232, RS-422 and RS-485 Serial Communication Ports A new serial communication adapter offers users the choice of four field selectable RS-232, RS-422, orRead More...

Low-Cost PCI Express-Compliant FPGAs Enable a Plethora of Peripherals

FPGAs play an important role in embedded processing by enabling customized hardware for protocol bridging, signal processing acceleration and real-time embedded control. Now, twoRead More...

FPGA-Based Industrial Ethernet Module Integrates a High-Capacity Switch-IP

An industrial Ethernet module (IEM) implements a cost-efficient and flexible solution to adapt to various Industrial Ethernet technologies. The IEM from IXXAT is based on an AlteraRead 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...

Hardware Trumps Software in Medical Devices

Let’s start by looking at the facts. Medical device recalls reached an all-time high in 2008—up 43 percent from 2007. The experts at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) haveRead More...

USM-based Dual Fast Ethernet PMC Offers FPGA Flexibility

USM-Based Dual Fast Ethernet PMC Offers FPGA Flexibility  A new Dual Fast Ethernet PMC is based on the Universal Submodule (USM) concept that implements a board's desiredRead More...

FPGA-Based 4-Channel High Speed Synch/Asynch Serial Interface

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...

Multi-Channel, Configurable PCI-Express Digitizer with Two Virtex-5 FPGAs

An advanced PCIe-based wideband A/D board captures four synchronized channels at sampling rates up to 1.5 GHz, or two synchronized channels up to 3 GHz when interleaving the ADCRead More...

10Gb Ethernet PCI Express FPGA Accelerator Card

3U CompactPCI Board Combines Intel Atom with Onboard FPGA