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Small, Light and Rugged: Qseven Enables New Battlefield Technologies

Dan Demers, congatec and Michele Kasza, Connect Tech

Man-Wearable System Achieves 40 Percent Power Reduction Shifting from Custom to Qseven Platform

As military electronics become more mobile and more complex, designs that combine form, function and performance are in demand on today’s battlefield. Unique applications andRead More...



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TECHNOLOGY IN CONTEXT

Rugged, Reliable and Real: COMs Broaden Their Reach

Barbara Schmitz, MEN Mikro Elektronik

With the reinstitution of VITA 59, Computer-On-Modules (COMs) are finally making their mark, especially in rugged environments where their small size, low power and high computing strength are increasingly in demand.

TECHNOLOGY CONNECTED

PCI Express Fabrics Break Through I/O Limitations

Vincent Chuffart, Kontron

Integration of PCIe 3.0 with VPX platform improves performance tenfold with no porting efforts.

TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYED

SequenceL: An Elegant and Efficient Approach to Exploiting the Power of Parallelism

Doug Norton, Texas Multicore Technologies; Larry A. Lambe, Multidisciplinary Software Systems Research; and Richard Luczak, RL Aerodynamics

Parallelizing complex code efficiently across multiple processor cores gets to be a task beyond human ability. SequenceL is a high-level language that can automatically analyze and output parallel code as C++ and OpenCL to run on a variety of today’s multicore processors.

TECHNOLOGY IN SYSTEMS

MicroTCA / AMC Solutions for Real-Time Data Acquisition

Rodger Hosking, Pentek, Inc.

MicroTCA has evolved out of the world of ATCA to become its own backplane system definition with a wealth of modules and high-speed interconnects. This makes it possible to develop a system for high-speed data acquisition that can target specific application needs.

INDUSTRY WATCH

Improving Performance through Power Management and Workload Consolidation in Telecommunications

Li Jun, Adlink Technology

A constant battle being fought by embedded developers is the balance between designing for low power consumption and designing for high performance. Power management and workload consolidation are two areas of technology focus that have emerged to help vendors address these issues.

EDITOR'S REPORT

Accelerating Build and Test Leads to Faster Software Deployment—A Really Big Deal with Android

Tom Williams, Editor-in-Chief

As software development moves toward the agile approach, the need to build test and use software under development becomes more critical. Shortening this cycle is essential to meeting market pressures, a need made even more intense by the rapid pace in the world of Android.

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Big Data and Big Ideas: Intelligent Systems, M2M and the Internet of Things

Tom Williams, Editor-in-Chief




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