Open-architecture electronic warfare (EW) and RF tuner mission computer introduced by Curtiss-Wright
ASHBURN, Va. – The Curtiss-Wright Corp. Defense Solutions division in Ashburn, Va., is introducing the MPMC-9323/EWS Silver Palm open-architecture commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) electronic warfare (EW) and RF tuner mission computer for countering emerging battlefield threats in SIGINT, COMINT, and ELINT applications.
To address today's emerging EW threats, system integrators seek to deploy the maximum number of RF channels, supported with supercomputing-class processing in a chassis small and lightweight enough to minimize the platform's SWaP burden.
Curtiss-Wright is collaborating with Silver Palm Technology LLC in Ijamsville, Md., to design a compact, EW/RF tuner mission computer that uses an open architecture optimized for low size, weight, and power consumption (SWaP) to lower the cost of ownership and reduce program risk.
This compact design for electronic warfare (EW) and other RF and microwave applications can ease the deployment of EW hardware solutions to the warfighter and speeds the development for system integrators.
The MPMC-9323/EWS Silver Palm integrates the Silver Palm Technologies SP-8344 20 MHz-6 GHz Quad Tuner with Digital IF, a Curtiss-Wright Xilinx Kintex-7 XF07-523 FPGA mezzanine module, and an Intel Xeon D-based CHAMP-XD1 DSP engine, to provide end-to-end data flow and enables the customer to focus on their application instead of the integrated hardware architecture.
This EW/RF tuner mission computer is packaged in Curtiss-Wright's two-slot 3U OpenVPX MPMC-9323 mission computing system. This rugged chassis measures 10.5 by 5.9 by 7.7 inches and weighs 18 pounds. It is designed to demanding thermal requirements.
The MPMC-9323 chassis's PSU3-THOR power supply also provides system designers with two additional XMC sites that can be optionally configured to support Gigabit Ethernet ports or as much as terabytes of data storage.
It supports the VITA 67.3 subminiature blind-mate multicoaxial RF backplane connectors which deliver levels of RF bandwidth and signal density.
For more information contact Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions online at www.curtisswrightds.com.
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