COTS View
New Pentium M Brings Integrated Graphics, I/O to Low-Power Embedded Apps
Jeffrey Snyder, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Intel Corporation
In the area of traditional embedded designs such as interactive clients, the need for high-performance compute power with integrated chipset features continues to grow at a rapid paceRead More...
Hardware Assets
Battery and Power Issues Move to Center Stage
Jeff Child
Gone are the days military systems designers could afford the luxury of treating power as an afterthought. Portable battery-powered devices are playing an increasingly critical role oRead More...
Mature Modular DC/DC Converters Suit Military Apps
Keith Nardone, Military Product Marketing, Vicor
Recent advances in power conversion have been nothing short of spectacular. For example, many suppliers are offering very inexpensive non-isolated, point-of-load converters with at leRead More...
Systems Approach Extends Battery Life Suit Military Apps
Andrew Girson, CEO and Boris Donskoy, CTO, InHand Electronics
Power management technology—along with wireless technology—is the latest frontier in embedded electronics hardware and software design. There are many reasons for thisRead More...
Tradeoffs Drive Portable Mil Battery Choices Suit Military Apps
Ben Helminen, Sales Director, Saft America
The equipment used by battlefield soldiers has changed dramatically over the last 20 years. The amount of new equipment requiring battery power continues to ramp. For example, the comRead More...
On the Softer Side
UML 2.0 Automates Code Generation from Architecture
John Hogg, Embedded Solutions Evangelist, IBM Rational Software
If you design and implement software using the Unified Modeling Language (UML), you’ve probably been aware of a gap between the classes you create and the system you’re buRead More...
Want to Make Your System Highly Available? Add COTS to the Middle(ware)
Dr. Asif Naseem, Senior Vice President & CTO, GoAhead Software
Systems running business and mission-critical applications—from e-commerce to cellular phone communication—are expected to provide continuous uninterrupted service to Read More...
Technology Focus
PC Provides Data Recorders an Evolution Path
Chris A. Ciufo
All kinds of defense systems and applications collect data, whether to be used immediately or saved for later. If sensors stream data faster than the processing system can processRead More...
Data Recording Considerations for Selecting High-Speed Sensor Systems
Ronnie Sanford, Marketing Manager, VMETRO
Due to the multitude of components found in modern sensor systems and the differing characteristics of those components, pairing sensor acquisition and analysis subsystems with recordRead More...
Massively Parallel Data Acquisition
Thomas Skrobacz, VP of Business Development, Conduant Corporation
To address a wide range of data rates and capacities at the lowest cost, system designers must architect modern data acquisition systems on building blocks that provide scalability. HRead More...
