Special Feature
Ethernet and 1553 Share a Long Path of System I/O Legacy
Clarence Peckham, Senior Editor
The year 1973 was a good year for data bus introductions. In early 1973 MIL-STD-1553 was introduced by the United States Air Force as a data bus for the F-16 Falcon fighter aircraft. LaRead More...
Mil Spec Point-to-Point Interfaces Work to Live alongside Ethernet
Denes Molnar, Engineering Manager and Don Anderson, Director, Sabtech Industries
The point-to-point interfaces used to communicate between legacy systems used in many of the major military systems deployed today have become increasingly unsupportable. Engineers and Read More...
System Development
Displays and Panel PCs Help Connect the Networked Military
Jeff Child Editor-in-Chief
Despite the ever tightening military budgets affecting today’s ongoing programs, the move to more advanced display technologies continues to be strong. There are two main reasons Read More...
Tech Recon
VICTORY Standard Eliminates Costly Vehicle Redundancies
David Jedynak, Manager, Advanced Solutions Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions
The Vehicle Integration for C4ISR/EW Interoperability (VICTORY) initiative has as its main goal the reduction of SWAP-C on ground vehicles. VICTORY takes aim at the current issues such Read More...
Technology Focus
PC/104 Nurtures a Niche Where Legacy and Performance Collide
Jeff Child Editor-in-Chief
With its 20th anniversary celebrated last year, the incredibly highly successful PC/104 standard gets to claim credit for opening the door to the embedded stackable computing concept. IRead More...
