Mercury has recently announced the Converged Sensor Network Architecture, a novel digital signal processing architecture that conjoins the agility of cluster computing with sensors at the tactical edge of the battlefield. The new SR-110 10GE Gateway is a critical component of Mercury's CSNA offeri...

Tundra Semiconductor will be delivering an in-depth presentation on optimizing applications using PCI Express bridges. Applications covered will include video security, embedded computing, PC add-in cards, storage adapters and riser cards. Tundra will cover the challenges that designers need to be a...

Do most embedded projects need an RTOS? It's a good question. The answer lies in the very nature of embedded devices. Devices that, in many cases, are manufactured in the thousands, or millions, of units. Devices where even a $1 reduction in per-unit hardware costs can save the manufacturer a small...

Harsh and mission-critical applications have a set of requirements all their own, such as environmental stresses and extreme temperatures, that typically precluded the use of Computer-on-Modules (COMs) in these environments. However, an improved COM standard geared specifically for rugged applicat...

Choosing an IBV (Independent BIOS Vendor) that fits your engineering needs and matches your style of doing business can be the critical link to the success for your UEFI projects. Consider the following: * How experienced is your prospective IBV - especially its engineers - regarding UEFI techn...

By now you’ve heard of VXS – and maybe even VPX – but just what the heck do they all mean? After all, you’re still supporting systems with VME32, and “2eSST” sounds like a European supercar. Well, strap in, because serial fabric-enabled VME boards in VXS and VPX flavors are now available off-the-she...

Creation of Safe and Secure embedded systems imposes exacting challenges for the architecture, implementation, and cost. Industry leaders will provide information on the real-time tools, services and technologies needed to deliver devices requiring safety certification and/or multiple independent...

Software Defined Radio. Even the phrase sounds cool and represents the height of leading-edge technology. And there’s good reason: SDR relies on the most sophisticated software and middleware, high-end digital signal processing techniques, and some of the most contemporary radio front-ends available...

Multicore processors are a staple part of every processor vendor's product offerings these days. Multicore processors come in many configurations from symetrical cores to Systems-on-a-Chip with co-processors. Designers of embedded systems face many application migration issues that need to be addres...

The introduction of MicroTCA and its benefits have been well received by embedded designers interested in standards-based, next generation platforms. However, while many discussions abound regarding lowering costs for MicroTCA, finding true cost savings for YOUR MicroTCA project can be elusive. Join...

The Pentek 7150 high-speed data converter stands apart from competing products on the market because of its unique architecture. This module combines the faster and higher precision DSP slices, in the two Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs, with four 200 MHz, 16-bit A/D converters offering increased resolution a...

Are you behind or ahead of the curve on MicroTCA cost issues? Join us for a timely Embedded Computing Knowledge E-cast where leading innovators in this arena Alliance Systems, Elma Electronic, CorEdge Networks, and Emerson Network Power detail the steps being taken to lower costs and increase adopti...

Historically when embedded platforms needed improved performance they moved to processors with higher clock speeds. This approach was always accompanied with power and thermal challenges for bladed environments such as CompactPCI®. Today the semiconductor industry is transitioning away from this clo...

“It’s a “given” that defense systems are getting more complex and increasingly relying on software to add new capabilities through technology insertion. However, with software complexity also comes an acute requirement for operating systems – often “real-time” operating systems – plus dramatically...

New form factors and expansion interfaces are needed to enable the next generation of low power, small form factor boards and systems. Leading the development of advanced technologies and solutions for the low power segment are VIA Technologies, WinSystems, and Samtec. The webinar will explain the...

Until recently, the vast majority of embedded systems employed uniprocessor designs. The situation is changing quickly, with many systems migrating to multiprocessor designs. However, with the availability of Intel multi-core processors that offer greater processing capacity while reducing overall p...

The mythical 5 nines are the benchmark to which network equipment providers and communications carriers aspire - requiring great expense and risk - attaining varying degrees of success. Up until now, the focus of commercial middleware providers has been on meeting this goal through improved fault m...

The latest technical advancements made by the Linux community have set the stage for Linux distributions to play an important role in emerging equipment for next-generation networking. But not just any Linux distribution can satisfy the specific needs of carrier-grade systems. In the rapidly growing...

The latest technical advancements made by the Linux community have set the stage for Linux distributions to play an important role in emerging equipment for next-generation networking. Tune into this second video in this series to learn more about the specifications that qualify a distro as CGL-co...

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to disentangle all the information out there; Emerson Network Power will show how new multicore processor boards differ from the uniprocessors, using as an example the newest multicore Power Architecture VME processor board. Wind River Systems will discuss how takin...

John Dixon, TI’s TMS320DM355 DaVinci™ Technology Marketing Manager provides an overview of one of the latest DaVinci based solutions: the TMS320DM355. This device is ideal for products that need low power consumption whether portable or plugged. At a price of less than $10, this device provides...

Well into its third decade of widespread deployment, the recent adoption of gigabit serial interfaces for VME clearly represents the most significant leap of performance throughout it's entire history. Mark will discuss' how Pentek's Model 4207 unique fabric-transparent crossbar switch bridges a we...

Real-time computing for sophisticated industrial equipment must deal with hard, deterministic real-time constraints. Breaking the input-to-output latency can result in machine failure, unacceptable performance, and down-time. Existing bus-based computing systems are running out of bandwidth and intr...

SIGINT and ELINT systems rely on multi-processor embedded systems that often need to be deployed in front-line applications. Coupled with extreme processor demands are massive bandwidth requirements for moving data inter- and intra-system…from sensors to processor modules to storage.