White Paper: OpenVPX System Bandwidth

Peter Thompson (GE Intelligent Platforms, Inc.)

A comparison of 10Gb Ethernet Performance, Serial Rapid IO, and InfiniBand.

White Paper: Attack the stack: Identifying unauthorized code execution caused by buffer overflows

Rutul Dave (Coverity)

Nearly half of all critical security leaks in embedded software are due to heap overflows. Stack-based buffer overflows account for a smaller percentage, but are exploited with the same technique to inject and execute unauthorized code or change execution flow. Instead of policing such attacks to manage security risk, a better approach is to use th... [read more]

White Paper: Capture, Decode and Debug of Low Speed Serial Buses

Tony Minchell (LeCroy Corporation)

Low speed serial bus validation requires more than simple voltage verses time measurements. LeCroy oscilloscopes have the ability to use a wide range of triggering, analysis and decode capabilities to bring increased confidence to the validation process. This article will cover methods to capture, view, decode and debug a variety of low speed seria... [read more]

White Paper: Testing & Debugging Avionics Systems that Use ARINC 429 or MIL-STD-1553 Data Busses

Dr. Michael Lauterbach (LeCroy Corporation)

The data busses in aircraft and spacecraft require very high quality in transmission and reception since proper communication of commands and data are crucial to operation. The ARINC 429 standard used predominately in commercial aircraft and the MIL-STD-1553 bus used in military avionics and space vehicles (military and commercial) have some common... [read more]

White Paper: Methods and Tools for Bring-Up and Debug of an FPGA-Based ASIC Prototype

Troy Scott, Product Marketing Manager (Synopsys, Inc.)

Software simulation of RTL is no longer capable of providing all of the verification required for today's complex ASIC designs. Modern ASICs are a complex mixture of hardware and software, so it is necessary to verify the design within the context of the complete system, running the full range of software at speeds that approach real-time. Successf... [read more]

White Paper: Examine the Hidden Costs of Commercial PC Platforms in Embedded Applications

Kelly Gillilan (AMD)

In this challenging global economy, system integrators are facing growing pressure to lower costs, accelerate Time-to-Market (TTM), and maximize profits while reducing risk. This white paper explores the hidden costs of commercially available PC platforms when used in embedded applications and why today's embedded platforms are a superior choice fo... [read more]

White Paper: Enabling 10Gbit-Ethernet in Miniature I/O Connectors for Aerospace and Defense Applications

Earle Olson (TE Connectivity)

The CeeLok FAS-T connector, a new high-speed circular I/O, combines the ruggedness of a MIL-C-38999-style design with an insert specifically configured for 10 Gbit-Ethernet transmission. Additionally, it is a small-form-factor connector system that is field repairable and supports data rate requirements for current and next-generation electronic sy... [read more]

White Paper: Developing Software in a Multicore and Multiprocessor World

Gwyn Fisher, CTO (Klocwork, Inc.)

Software developers stand to gain increased speed and functionality from multiprocessor architectures, but the resulting complexity makes detecting software errors more challenging. Read this technical paper for an overview of the challenges associated with software development on next-gen architectures and learn how static analysis can help.

RDMA: The Future of High-Speed Fabric Interconnects

Ross Newman (GE Intelligent Platforms, Inc.)

This white paper will explore the merits of InfiniBand architecture as well as methods of optimizing its use.

White Paper: Enabling High-Speed Data Rates in Connectors for Aerospace and Defense Applications

Matthew McAlonis (TE Connectivity)

A new high-speed connector system for aerospace and defense applications builds on industry-proven technology to achieve new levels of ruggedness. By combining the designs of cutting-edge high-speed connectors with proven MIL - SPEC contacts, the new Fortis Zd connector meets the demands of emerging military applications by enabling data rates... [read more]

eBook: Get Ready for 40G ATCA

Rob Pettigrew (Emerson Network Power Embedded Computing)

In this eBook you will learn about the following: • What is driving the growth in IP traffic • The underlying technologies driving 40 Gbps ATCA • The relevant industry standards • The steps to 40G heaven

White Paper: High-Volume Spartan-6 FPGAs: Performance and Power

Maureen Smerdon (Xilinx, Inc.)

The rapid change in today's design environment requires a programmable solution that provides the highest performance and lowest power at the lowest cost. To meet the needs of high-volume systems, it is essential that the solution uses the latest 45 nm high-volume technology.

White Paper: Lowering Power at 28 nm with Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs

Jameel Hussein (Xilinx, Inc.); Matt Klein (Xilinx, INc.); Michael Hart (Xilinx, Inc.)

This white paper describes several aspects of power related to the Xilinx(r) 28 nm 7 series FPGAs, including the TSMC 28 nm high-k metal gate (HKMG), high performance, low power (28 nm HPL or 28 HPL) process choice. The power benefits afforded by the 28 HPL process and its usefulness across Xilinx's full product offerings is described as well as th... [read more]

White Paper: Xilinx Redefines Power, Performance, and Design Productivity with Three Innovative 28 nm FPGA Families: Virtex-7, Kintex-7, and Artix-7 Devices

Nick Mehta (Xilinx, Inc.)

Industry dynamics are driving seemingly insatiable demand for higher bandwidth and higher system-level performance while facing more stringent mandatory requirements to reduce power consumption. At the same time, competitive pressures are forcing customers to increase productivity without sacrificing innovation and differentiation. To meet these de... [read more]

White Paper: Reducing Switching Power with Intelligent Clock Gating

Frederic Rivoallon (Xilinx, Inc.)

Xilinx delivers the first automated, fine-grain clock-gating solution that can reduce dynamic power by up to 30% in Virtex(r)-6, Spartan(r)-6, Kintex(tm)-7, and Virtex-7 FPGA designs. Xilinx intelligent clock-gating optimizations are automatically performed on the entire design, introduce no new tools or steps to the flow, and generate no changes t... [read more]

White Paper: EtherCAT on Sitara AM335xARM Cortex-A8 Microprocessors

Maneesh Soni, Systems Manager ARM microprocessor group (Texas Instruments, Inc.)

Texas Instruments is world's first semiconductor company to license EtherCAT technology and integrate it into the Sitara AM335x ARM generation of ARM Cortex-A8-based microprocessors (MPUs). This whitepaper explores implementation of this technology on the AM335x processor through its programmable real-time unit (PRU)-based programmable technology t... [read more]

White Paper: Can You Have It All? Evaluating FPGA-Based Prototyping Systems

Michael Posner, Product Manager FPGA-based prototyping solutions (Synopsys, Inc.)

RTL simulation is no longer capable of providing all of the verification required for today's complex designs. Modern systems are a complex mixture of hardware and software, digital and analog, and the boundaries of the system are often difficult to define.

White Paper: No Room for Error: Creating Highly Reliable, High-Availability FPGA Designs

Angela Sutton (Synopsys, Inc.)

It comes as no surprise that the designers of FPGAs for military and aerospace applications are interested in increasing the reliability and availability of their designs. This is, of course, particularly true in the case of mission-critical and safety-critical electronic systems.

White Paper: How Does the FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card) Standard Measure up Against the PMC/XMC Format for Embedded Defense/Aerospace Applications?

Staff (Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing)

FMCs promise to do for FPGA based solutions what PMC and XMC did for embedded CPU based systems. However, FMC is not really competing with PMC or XMC, but actually complements it, particularly for high bandwidth, low latency applications.

White Paper: Software Defined Radio Handbook (Ninth edition)

Rodger H. Hosking Vice-President & Cofounder (Pentek, Inc.)

SDR has revolutionized electronic systems for a variety of applications including communications, data acquisition, and signal processing. This handbook shows how DDCs and DUCs, the fundamental building blocks of SDR, can replace conventional analog receiver designs, offering significant benefits in performance, density and cost and much more...

White Paper: Addressing the Challenges of Functional Safety in the Automotive and Industrial Markets

Freescale Semiconductor (Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.)

The focus on safety-critical applications in both the automotive and industrial markets is significantly growing, bringing new and added pressures to systems engineers as they work to solve safety challenges.

White Paper: Design Approaches Impact GPGPU Implementation

Peter Thompson (GE Intelligent Platforms, Inc.)

The right choice for a GPGPU platform depends on several factors. Two approaches can be taken when implementing a GPGPU design: chip-down and mezzanine. GE Intelligent Platforms supports both design methods, allowing customers to choose the right approach for their program, including getting started with software design and system validation using ... [read more]

White Paper: A comparison of OpenVPX(tm) System Bandwidth between Serial RapidIO(r) and 10 Gigabit Ethernet

Ian Stalker (Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing)

The focus of this paper is high-performance, multi-processor systems where bandwidth available to the CPUs can have a large impact on the system computing throughput.

White Paper: A Comparison of MPEG4 (H.264) and JPEG2000 Video Compression and Decompression Algorithms

Andrew Haylett (Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing)

With the introduction of High Definition (HD) video, much higher data rates need to be recorded and moved around in the digital domain meaning new technologies have had to be developed in order to accommodate these higher specification video streams.

White Paper: Switched Fabrics Support High-Performance Embedded Computing for Military and Aerospace Platforms

Chris Cardillo (GE Intelligent Platforms, Inc.)

Lessons learned from high-performance computing arena can be transferred to military and aerospace applications for improved component interoperability.

White Paper: Readiness Level Measures Boosted by COTS Computers

Chris Cardillo (GE Intelligent Platforms, Inc.)

Military and aerospace system developers have one overarching mission: To bring their products to market in the most efficient manner possible. System developers can use COTS rugged systems to boost their technology, manufacturing readiness levels.

eLearning Course: Secure Coding for C/C++

Staff (Klocwork, Inc.)

Developers, learn how to create secure code. This course will teach you the essential secure coding principals for C/C++, along with the technical details of buffer overflows, and much more.

White Paper: Integrated Circuits for Implantable Medical Devices

Steven Dean, Global medical market lead (Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.); James McDonald, Co-founder and president (Cactus Semiconductor); David Niewolny, Medical segment manager (Freescale’s Microcontroller Solutions Group); Donnie Garcia, Systems Engineer (Freescale’s Microcontroller Solutions Group); Navjot Chhabra, Manager (Freescale Packaging Solutions Development); Loris Chang, Biomedical engineering student (University of Texas at Austin)

When considering integrated circuits for an implantable device, one must examine the entire system from the top level. Overall system-level requirements, such as functionality, performance, size, weight and power should be considered. This white paper describes the electronic features of implantable circuits and the integration of these features in... [read more]

White Paper: DO-178C Brings Advanced Modeling, Object Oriented Programming and Enhanced Traceability to Avionics Software Development

Bill StClair, Director, US Operations (LDRA ); Tim King, Technical Marketing Manager (DDC-I, Inc)

Since its introduction in 1992, DO-178B has been the defacto standard for certifying avionics software. Subsequently, however, avionics software complexity has increased dramatically, software development technology has improved by leaps and bounds, and DO-178B has lagged behind.

White Paper: Networked flash storage blade on an ATCA 10 Gb backplane - server virtualization, database and video media delivery

Staff (SanBlaze Technology, Inc.)

Applications such as server virtualization, database and video media delivery require high IOPS/GB and/or low response times. This paper explores the benefits of networked flash storage deployed on an ATCA 10 Gb backplane to improve these three vertical application areas, including the technology and the benefits of in-chassis networked flash stor... [read more]

White Paper: McAfee Embedded Control: Built-in protection for bulletproof peace of mind

Staff (McAfee, Inc.)

Today, embedded devices are all around us–in kiosks, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, ATMs, medical equipment, and more. For far too long, however, protecting the integrity of these devices and the sensitive information they contain has been an afterthought. McAfee(r) Embedded Control enhances embedded device integrity, maximizing uptime, reducing su... [read more]

White Paper: COTS-Based Computer Systems Reduce Risks to System Developers

Mac Rothstein (GE Intelligent Platforms, Inc.)

The development of a new computing system for a military and aerospace application is fraught with risks that could extend product time to market, drive up costs, or even derail the program altogether. This white paper explores many of the avenues by which risk can enter a system development project, and how a standard COTS-based computer system c... [read more]

White Paper: How to Boost Solar Power Inverter Reliability

Silicon Laboratories (Silicon Laboratories Inc.)

Photovoltaic (PV) power systems, including solar power inverters, are expected to operate reliably and at full rated output for a minimum of 25 years, so they need highly efficient inverters that run cooler, last longer and generate cash savings for the PV system manufacturer and user. Download this white paper from Silicon Labs to find out how adv... [read more]

White Paper: Applying "Sandy Bridge" to Embedded Applications

Staff (American Portwell Technology)

Market demand continues to grow for high-performance imaging, communications and security systems. Solutions need to contain scalable power-efficient processors with better integrated graphics capabilities than ever before. From imaging to communications to security to raw scalar throughput, the second generation Intel(r) Core(tm) processors (forme... [read more]

White Paper: Consumer Market Drives Advances in High-Performance Embedded Computing

Jeff Hoch (GE Intelligent Platforms, Inc.)

Military and aerospace sector reaps benefits from consumer-led technology developments. The military and aerospace market may be said to have started this situation, first as far back as the late-1970s with the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) that laid the groundwork for the packet-switch networks that, in turn, form the basis o... [read more]