Battlefield communications capabilities have emerged as a top military priority. As a result, vehicle electronics (often combined as “Vetronics”) architectures are evolving to ensure that military assets can effectively serve as part of a holistic communications network. Our new white paper, Vetronics Architectures Emerge to Facilitate Network-Enabled Operations, reviews the genesis and implementation of the NEO paradigm, and explores how Vetronics architectures are changing communications among virtually all battlefield assets.

This paper compares the bandwidth available to two common types of dataflow for systems based on the VITA 65 CEN16 central switched topology, using three different fabrics – Serial RapidIO (SRIO), 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), and Double Data Rate InfiniBand (DDR IB).

This guide provides an introduction to the MIL-STD-1553 data bus, its history, applications, and use. It describes:

-The physical elements that make up the bus.
-The protocol, including the message formats, word types, and command and status words.
-Status word bits and mode commands and their definitions and use, both from the remote terminal and bus controller perspective.
-Issues such as bus loading, major and minor frame timing,

Additionally, this guide introduces the various test plans anddiscusses how the GE Intelligent Platforms MIL-STD-1553 product line can solve some of your testing and application needs. 

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Recent initiatives to increase the performance and flexibility of modular platforms aimed at high-performance embedded computing (HPEC) are bearing fruit by enabling board and system designers to use high-speed switched fabrics from mainstream high-performance computing (HPC) markets to maximize performance, reduce technical risk and shorten time to solution for advanced military and aerospace applications.

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This paper describes and illustrates some of the many applications for which the GE Intelligent Platforms ICS-8580 rugged video processor is an ideal solution. It has the flexibility and features to greatly ease the system integration burden by providing one platform that can be used in many different ways. The ICS-8580 and the standalone daq8580 are truly unique products in the rugged COTS market. The ICS-8580 and daq8580 are interchangeable for any of the applications cited in this document. Choosing which product should be used is simply a question of optimal system architecture when other processing needs are factored in.

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GPUDirect RDMA solves an age-old problem for GPUs by removing the CPU and system memory bottleneck. By doing so, GPUDirect RDMA greatly decreases the latency of streaming data into the GPU from external PCIe endpoints and increases bandwidth through more efficient PCIe intercommunication. This allows the GPU to move into new application domains, like electronic warfare and radar/SIGINT frontends, which were previously inaccessible due to low-latency requirements.

Learn how the latest generation of Kepler™-family GPUs and CUDA™ 5.0 from NVIDIA^®, along with a new feature called GPUDirect™ RDMA enable 3rd-party PCIe endpoints to DMA directly to and from the GPU, without the use of system memory or the GPU.

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High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) combines the latest processor and interconnect technologies with infrastructures such as OpenVPX and standard software components to allow military programs to pack more computing power into smaller size, weight and power (SWaP) for SIGINT, radar, EW, and many other applications. The drive toward Modular Open Systems Architectures (MOSA) is at the heart of GE’s selection of technologies, and this paper examines how this can positively impact programs.

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