White Papers

A Comparison of 10Gb Ethernet Performance, Serial Rapid IO, and InfiniBand

Chip-down and mezzanine options present potential benefits and drawbacks for developers.

Learn how Vetronics architectures are revolutionizing communications among virtually all battlefield assets.

System developers can use COTS rugged systems to boost their technology, manufacturing readiness levels

GE Intelligent Platform's CCO Professional Andy Debs offers insights into design techniques for maximizing the efficiency of Reflective Memory Networks.

This whitepaper looks at the risks involved in the development 40G ATCA systems

Lessons learned from high-performance computing arena can be transferred to military and aerospace applications for improved component interoperability.

Increasing vector engine to 256 bits doubles DSP compute capacity while reducing SWaP.

Video camera & sensor arrays causing a rapid switch from 1GbE to 10GbE in Mil/Aero platforms communications networks.

Processors, algorithms and small form factor devices allow for deployment of video tracking and target detection on virtually any type of military and aerospace platform.

Standard computer systems provide opportunities to avoid many avenues of risk

Military and aerospace sector reaps benefits from consumer-led technology developments

PCIe as a backplane fabric: The system architecture implications.

This paper discusses how the significant performance improvements of the 2nd generation Core i7 processors relate less to the core frequency than to exciting architectural improvements and new features.

This paper discusses PCIe technical features and applications using xTCA that can benefit from using the native PCIe interconnect..

COM Express for Harsh Environments

Video Streaming in a Rugged Unmanned Vehicle Environment

Challenges of selecting rugged COTS subsystems

What to look for when designing and selecting rugged COTS-based products.

This paper describes how the ATCA infrastructure takes advantage of multicore processors

Increasing Speed, Reducing Size of Radar Processing Systems

This paper details strategies for using PCIE as a backplane interconnect withing mTCA and ATCA platforms

TTEthernet – A Powerful Network Solution for Advanced Integrated Systems

PLM White Paper on Long Term Support for COTS Assemblies

What is Reflective Memory? Where Do I Use Reflective Memory? How Do I Use Reflective Memory? Your questions are answered in this Whitepaper.

Newest approaches to acquire and process high frequency sonar signals and the benefits over older traditional approaches.

This document provides an overview of ARINC 429 and other ARINC protocols. ARINC 429 is the most commonly used data bus for commercial and transport aircraft.

Ethernet has become perhaps the most ubiquitous communication technology in use today. It was originally used connect computers in a communication network, but today Ethernet is finding a wide variety of new uses.

Advances in Radar Processing white paper addresses multi-functional radar systems and how they need to perform much more sophisticated, computationally intensive algorithms - and to do so within limited space & constraints on power & heat dissipation.

GE Intelligent Platforms offers a flexible and scalable video compression solution with dual inputs to a single PMC card using MPEG-4 or H.263 Baseline profile.

New medical technologies often hold great promise, but few patients will benefit unless an effective implementation can be brought to market at a reasonable cost.

Designing multiple PCI Express processor nodes into xTCA host systems

MIL-STD-1553 Tutorial

Comparing High-Speed Data Recording Architectures

This white paper will show how DSP libraries and graphical tools accelerate this distributed corner turn development.

This white paper will show how a modern tool-chain might address different issues when configuring and programming a complex, heterogeneous multiprocessor system for a Mil & Aero application and result in a much reduced time to solution.

This paper looks at developing applications for systems with switched fabric interconnects

Strategic or mission-critical embedded computing projects can have a lifetime measurable in years or even decades.

This 24-page tutorial provides an in-depth technical review of AFDX protocols and implementations.

This paper looks at VPX for rugged environments and embedded military applications.

A complete sub-system, the daqNet comes complete with its own chassis and integrated power supply, with configuration information and acquired data being sent via a dual redundant Gbit Ethernet link.

Even though Ethernet is ubiquitous and well known, there are a number of design parameters that affect device interoperability in the ecosystem.

Thanks to its close family ties to AdvancedTCA®, MicroTCA was endowed with robust management capabilities right from the start. These capabilities include temperature and voltage monitoring, FRU insertion and removal, and Electronic Keying.

This paper describes an innovative way to overcome this inherent limitation of Ethernet.

Published here with permission from Intel®, this paper describes how telecommunications companies can accelerate the rollout of new wireless technologies and services using Intel® building blocks.