COTS Journal (March)

March 2019, Volume 21 – Number 3 • cotsjournalonline.com

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The Journal of Military Electronics & Computing

FPGAs for Short Run Military Applications

Achieving Multicore Determinism for Safety-Critical Applications

The Journal of Military Electronics & Computing COTS (kots), n. 1. Commercial off-the-shelf.

Terminology popularized in 1994 within U.S. DoD by SECDEF Wm. Perry’s “Perry Memo” that changed military industry purchasing and design guidelines, making Mil-Specs acceptable only by waiver. COTS is generally defined for technology, goods and services as: a) using commercial business practices and specifications, b) not developed under government funding, c) offered for sale to the general market, d) still must meet the program ORD. 2. Commercial business practices include the accepted practice of customer-paid minor modification to standard COTS products to meet the customer’s unique requirements.

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—Ant. When applied to the procurement of electronics for he U.S. Military, COTS is a procurement philosophy and does not imply commercial, office environment or any other durability grade. E.g., rad-hard components designed and offered for sale to the general market are COTS if they were developed by the company and not under government funding.

SPECIAL FEATURES 16

FPGAs for Short Run Military Applications

Sausan Arebi, Chief Architect, Per Vices Corporation

SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT 20

DEPARTMENTS 06 Publisher’s Note

An Ever Changing Landscape How MOSA does things differently

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The Inside Track

Achieving Multicore Determinism for Safety-Critical Applications Richard Jaenicke, Green Hills Software

COT’S PICKS 24

Editor’s Choice for March

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An Ever Changing Landscape How MOSA does things differently Something is different in how the Open Group is moving forward in developing an open standard to be adopted by all branches of the military. The Open Group has solicited the Army, Air Force and Navy to work as active participants in developing a standard that meets the real world needs as they see them. In addition they have invited leading minds from Prime Contractors to give their two cents. These are Primes like Harris, Raytheon, Northrop and others.

Although this seems to be an obvious course of action, it is not often seen. The normal course is to have the manufactures debate with each other; many times driven by their own prospective to create a standard that they hope will meet the needs to the client. Sometimes this works and sometimes we have seen the standard get hijacked by the motives of a singular company.

The Open Group, founded in 1993 has decades of experience in the formulating of standards from Sensors through Enterprise with MOSA or the Modular Open Systems Approach adopting this experience. These emerging standards address an array of activities and needs of a unified military. They include SOSA or Sensor Systems Open Architecture; FACE or Future Airborne Capability Environment; VICTORY or Vehicular Integration for C4ISR/EW and OMS/UCI or Open Mission Systems/Universal Command and Control Interface.

Although these standards are still emerging, the race to please the Army, Air Force and Navy is on with man-

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ufactures eager to affirm that they have solutions that are compliant to this body of standards. From Software vendors like Lynx Works to hardware vendors like Pentek, each are focused on carving out their part of this multi-billion dollar market.

The interesting feature that is not fully understood is that many standards such as Open VPX from VITA are being adopted as base technologies to the different groups. This does not mean the Open VPX was adopted in entirety or that all the profiles will make the cut. But it does mean that vendors with experience and products will have a head start on being SOSA Compliant.

The other side of the coin is that if these standards are widely adopted through a mandate, NRE dollars spent on non-compliant products will be for not.

The feel of these standard initiatives seems different for some reason. Is it the client driven nature of them? Is the building upon other standards group? Or is it the strength of the Open Group to use their experience to create a landscape that seems to be different then before? We will continue to explore how these groups evolve and we hope that you find the associated products in COTS Picks as reflective of the future.

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Raytheon wins $63.3 million DARPA contract for hypersonic weapons work Contract will fund Tactical Boost Glide system than Mach 5 – “a rocket accelerates its payload to high speeds. The payload then separates from the rocket and glides unpowered to its destination,” according to the DARPA website.

theon is working closely with our customers to quickly field these advanced weapon systems and provide our nation’s military with the tools they need to stay ahead of the escalating threat.”

“This latest contract adds to Raytheon’s growing number of hypersonic weapons programs,” said Dr. Thomas Bussing, Raytheon Advanced Missile Systems vice president. “Ray-

Hypersonic weapons will enable the U.S. military to engage from longer ranges with shorter response times and enhanced effectiveness compared to current weapon systems.

U.S. Navy orders next group of P-8A aircraft; 19 jets support world-wide customers

includes 10 aircraft to add to the current inventory of P-8As in the U.S. Navy fleet, all five jets currently under contract for Norway and the four aircraft remaining for the existing United Kingdom contract, bringing the total United Kingdom acquisition to nine aircraft.

a variant designed and produced for the U.S. Navy called the P-8A Poseidon. The United Kingdom will receive their first aircraft in 2019 and Norway will begin receiving aircraft in 2021.

The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing [NYSE: BA] a $2.4 billion production contract for the next 19 P-8A Poseidon aircraft. The contract

The United Kingdom and Norway are acquiring the Boeing aircraft through the Foreign Military Sales process and will receive

Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) won a $63.3 million DARPA contract to further develop the Tactical Boost Glide hypersonic weapons program. The joint DARPA and U.S. Air Force effort includes a critical design review, a key step in fielding the technology.

For a tactical-range boost glide weapon to achieve hypersonic speeds – velocities greater

Boeing Receives $2.4 Billion P-8A Poseidon Contract From U.S. Navy

The P-8 is a long-range multi-mission maritime patrol aircraft capable of broad-area, maritime and littoral operations. A military derivative of the Boeing Commercial Next-Generation 737 airplane, the P-8 combines superior performance and reliability with an advanced mission system that ensures maximum interoperability in the battle space.

The P-8 is militarized with maritime weapons, a modern open mission system architecture, and commercial-like support for affordability. The aircraft has been modified to include a bomb bay and pylons for weapons – two weapons stations on each wing – and can carry 129 sonobuoys. The aircraft is also fitted with an in-flight refueling system.

With more than 180,000 flight hours to date, P-8 variants, the P-8A Poseidon and the P-8I, patrol the globe performing anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; humanitarian; and search and rescue missions.

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L3 to Deliver Innovative Solutions as Part of Canada’s Combat Ship Team on the Royal Canadian Navy’s Canadian Surface Combatant Programrs

L3 Technologies announced that incountry technology, experience and infrastructure proved a winning combination for Canada’s new fleet of surface combatants, as Canada’s Combat Ship Team has been awarded the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) design contract by Irving Shipbuilding. Irving Shipbuilding is the Canadian Surface Combatant Prime Contractor and will build all 15 ships at Halifax Shipyard. L3 is a key partner with Lockheed Martin Canada (LMC) and BAE Systems on the Combat Ship Team.

L3 Technologies is leveraging its established Canadian companies to deliver industry-leading solutions to the CSC program composed of maritime technologies, systems integration and all-encompassing in-service support.

The CSC program is the largest, most complex procurement ever undertaken by the Government of Canada and includes the construction of Type 26 Global Combat Ships that will replace the Royal Canadian Navy’s

Halifax-Class frigates and Iroquois-Class destroyers.

L3 Technologies will be providing the Integrated Platform Management System, Integrated Communication Systems, electro-optical infrared (EO/IR) sensors, weapons stowage and torpedo handling systems and helicopter hangar doors.

“This strategic and significant international win is yet another recent example of how L3 is capturing new business and strengthening our position as a leading supplier of maritime solutions to customers on a global scale,” said Christopher E. Kubasik, L3’s Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President. “From the start, we collaborated and integrated our mission-proven maritime capabilities into a single offering to ensure the Royal Canadian Navy would receive a technologically advanced, all-inclusive solution that would maximize operational effectiveness throughout the ship’s entire life cycle.”

L3’s ISR Systems business segment will provide an innovative, multi-band Infrared Search & Track (IRST) system and Electro-Optical Surveillance Sensor (EOSS) that leverages technologies from fielded surface ship EOSS solutions and the MX™-Series EO/ IR product lines.

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Abaco Systems Names Lorne Graves as Chief Technology Officer

Abaco Systems announced the appointment of Lorne Graves as Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Graves brings 20 years of experience as an engineering executive, working closely with various prime contractors on several key Electronic Warfare, SIGINT, and radar programs.

Most recently, Mr. Graves served as Chief Technologist at Mercury Systems. Prior to Mercury Systems, he was Senior Design Engineer at Extreme Networks (Nasdaq GS: EXTR), a networking company.

“We are thrilled to welcome Lorne to Abaco’s management team as the Company embarks on its next phase of growth. Lorne has a tremendous reputation in the embedded computing market, and his leadership will advance Abaco’s position in open architecture COTS solutions,” said Mr. Rich Sorelle, President and CEO of Abaco Systems.

US Army Awards Harris Corporation Nearly $218 Million Contract to Provide Wideband Satellite Communications Mission Support The U.S. Army has awarded Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) a nearly $218 million follow-on contract to support wideband satellite operations centers and management sites that deliver critical communications to warfighters around the world.

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Lorne Graves, CTO Abaco

“I am excited to join Abaco and contribute to our mission of advancing the capabilities of the warfighter through game-changing mission ready embedded technologies,” said Mr. Graves.

The Wideband Satellite Communications Operations and Technical Support II (WSOTS-2) contract will support global networks and operations centers at 21 sites, providing operations and maintenance, life-cycle engineering, on-site technical assistance, equipment installation, depot-level repair, logistics, cybersecurity, and training and sustainment.

“Harris assists the Army with all facets of wideband SATCOM support, helping to keep these global communications systems

Raytheon Company wins $88 million U.S. Navy contract for modification and upgrade of sensor software for F/A-18 and F/A-18G aircraft The Raytheon Co., El Segundo, California, is awarded an $88,443,303 cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the modification and upgrade of the sensor system software and hardware for the F/A-18/EA-18G aircraft to incorporate updates, improvements, and enhancements of tactical capabilities. Services to be provided include technical support for hardware and software anomaly investigation, design, development, documentation, integration, test, and evaluation of systems and support equipment.

The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, China Lake, California, is the contracting activity (N6893619D0001).

performing so that warfighters are protected and get the information they need to stay connected and ensure mission success,” said Chris Forseth, vice president and general manager, Harris Space Superiority.

The contract leverages Harris’ 30-plusyear legacy of providing ground systems, on-orbit assets and global communications networking to the Army and other customers, including most recently, executing the first WSOTS $160 million contract.

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SPAWAR Systems Center Names Change to Naval Information Warfare Centers

By Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Public Affairs

It also improves clarity of mission and purpose with stakeholders across the fleet and industry and throughout the broader Information Warfare community and Naval Research and Development Enterprise.

Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) announced it will change the names of its Echelon III systems centers, SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic in Charleston, S.C. and SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific in San Diego, Calif., to Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic and Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific, respectively.

The name Naval Information Warfare Center also aligns the centers with Naval Air Systems Command’s (NAVAIR) air warfare centers and Naval Sea Systems Command’s (NAVSEA) surface and undersea warfare centers.

The changes will be effective Feb. 18. The new language “Naval Information Warfare Center,” with the acronym NIWC, (pronounced Nī ’ wick) will apply to the names of all Naval Information Warfare Center sites falling under NIWC Pacific and NIWC Atlantic worldwide.

SPAWAR Commander Rear Adm. Christian Becker made the announcement Feb. 13 in his address to attendees at the WEST 2019 conference co-hosted by the U.S. Naval Institute (USNI) and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) at the San Diego Convention Center.

The name change demonstrates that information is a fundamental element of warfare, an essential concept of the Navy’s Design for Maritime Superiority 2.0.

Use of ‘warfare centers’ in the names reflects the centers’ focus, core capabilities and importance in the full spectrum of warfighting.

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The intent of the name change is to recognize the importance of the Information Warfare mission and does not signal a change in SPAWAR’s mission of identifying, developing, delivering and sustaining information warfighting capabilities.

“The advantage information warfare brings to the fight is at the core of our Navy’s ability to compete and win today and in the coming decades,” said Becker. “Recognizing our systems centers as Naval Information Warfare Centers reaffirms our commitment to accelerate the development and delivery of advanced warfighting capabilities to the fleet.”

SPAWAR identifies, develops, delivers and sustains information warfighting capabilities supporting naval, joint, coalition and other national missions. SPAWAR consists of more than 10,000 active duty military and civil service professionals located around the world and close to the fleet to keep SPAWAR at the forefront of research, engineering and acquisition to provide and sustain information warfare capabilities to the fleet.

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Mercury Systems Announces Defense Industry’s First Trusted Microelectronics Capability for Edge Processing Architectures Full custom product lifecycle trust and assurance realized through advanced design, assembly and test capabilities housed in a secure DMEA-accredited facility

Mercury Systems, Inc. announced the defense industry’s first trusted custom microelectronics capability targeting SWaP-constrained intelligent sensors for military applications using the resources of the Company’s Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA)-accredited facility in Phoenix, Ariz. for design, assembly and test services. Although the Company provides a broad portfolio of digital microelectronics as standard product offerings, edge processing architectures for intelligent sensor and effector mission systems often require custom microelectronics designs to avoid compromises between SWaP, thermal management considerations and optimized system performance.

While most commercial microelectronics suppliers continue to move design and manufacturing capabilities offshore, the defense industry faces increased challenges for long-term supply continuity of trusted microelectronics critical to the success of our military forces.

This increases the risk of device alteration by adversaries from the earliest stages of product design through the end of full rate production.

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Mercury’s custom microelectronics capability mitigates this risk by providing customers with a domestic and assured chain of custody deeply integrated throughout the entire product lifecycle, starting with the initial conceptual design, for both classified and unclassified programs.

“Our Advanced Microelectronics Center is proud to offer a one-stop, trusted source of design, assembly and test services for the most sophisticated custom microelectronics as an affordable alternative to conventional microelectronics suppliers whose business models fail to holistically integrate digital, radio frequency, and mixed-signal technologies,” said Iain Mackie, Vice President and General Manager of Mercury’s Microelectronics Secure Solutions group.

“We have made substantial investments in our Phoenix, Ariz. facility to deliver authentic, high-performance devices manufactured using advanced microelectronics technologies.”

With tightly integrated design and manufacturing resources, the Company has developed deep domain expertise spanning a broad of range of capabilities ideally suited to custom microelectronics for defense applications: • Advanced packaging technologies with surface-mount, flip chip, and wire bond: Military-grade, SWaP-optimized microelectronics manufactured and tested on a highly automated production line • 2.5D and 3D packaging: In addition to the Company’s robust 2.5D & 3D packaging ca-

pabilities, commercialization of state-of-the-art chip-scale packaging technologies for defense applications using through silicon via (TSV) interconnections is expected within calendar year 2019 • Thermal management: Innovative design methodologies cool the most advanced processors and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices • Ruggedization: Proven design strategies mitigate the effects of exposure to extreme temperature environments, mechanical shock, vibration and thermal shock common in military environments • Radio frequency (RF), microwave and mixed-signal: Integration of analog and mixed-signal devices and circuitry, leveraging Mercury’s world-class engineering expertise • Scalable manufacturing: Fully automated manufacturing floor with integrated material resource planning (MRP) system • Advanced testing protocols: Automated, high-speed functional and environmental test capabilities to validate mission-specific performance requirements • Robust cybersecurity posture: Protection of all design and manufacturing records with an active cybersecurity program based on the Center for Internet Security (CIS) critical security controls

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Company’s 10th cargo supply mission featured expanded commercial capabilities for Cygnus spacecraft

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) announced that the company successfully completed its 10th cargo supply mission to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-1) contract.

During the mission, the “S.S. John Young” Cygnus met the needs of multiple customers throughout this flight to the International Space Station. The spacecraft removed more than 5,500 pounds (2,500 kilograms) of disposal cargo from the space station.

After departure, the extended mission included the deployment of three CubeSats via the NanoRacks External Cygnus Deployer at two different altitudes and two CubeSats from the Slingshot CubeSat Deployer System. Slingshot, a new commercial customer for Cygnus, is a flexible platform that can fly hosted payloads and CubeSats. The spacecraft also operated a commercial powered payload for another new customer, UbiquitiLink, Inc. These innovative uses of Cygnus beyond the primary mission demonstrate expanded commercial opportunities enabled by partnerships built through the space station.

“It was a flawless mission for Cygnus that further demonstrated its ability to operate as

an in-orbit science platform and launch pad for deployment of commercial CubeSats on extended missions,” said Frank DeMauro, vice president and general manager, space systems, Northrop Grumman. “Now, we turn our attention to the next launch this spring where Cygnus will fly on an extended duration mission to further demonstrate its abilities as in-orbit test platform. These capabilities will showcase Cygnus as an evolving space vehicle that can build on the positive impact of the space station to grow new commercial partnerships.”

The mission officially concluded on Feb. 25 at 4:05 a.m. EST when Cygnus performed a safe, destructive re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand. The mission began Nov. 17, 2018, when Cygnus launched aboard a Northrop Grumman Antares™ rocket from NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Upon arrival at the orbiting laboratory, Cygnus delivered approximately 7,400 pounds (3,350 kilograms) of cargo, supplies and scientific experiments to the astronauts. It remained docked for 81 days at the orbiting laboratory before departing the space station on Feb. 8.

The next Cygnus launch, known as the NG-11 mission, is currently scheduled in midApril. This will be the final mission under Northrop Grumman’s CRS-1 contract with NASA before starting the CRS-2 contract missions in the fall of 2019.

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Curtiss-Wright and Honeywell use connectivity to reinvent airplane black box recorders • Innovation paves way for real-time data access to aid aircraft incident investigations

Honeywell’s next-generation recorders for the Air Transport and Business Aviation markets.

• Curtiss-Wright’s compact, lightweight Fortress™ flight data recorder technology is first to meet extended operational and crash survivability requirements

The companies will jointly develop the hardware for the new black boxes, and Honeywell will modernize the software capabilities for easier access to real-time data during flight.

This will provide aircraft owners, operators and manufacturers with new voice and flight data recording options to help decrease aircraft downtime through better predictive maintenance and, in the unlikely event of an emergency, help with the subsequent investigation. Further, operators will benefit from real-time data streaming and cloud-upload capabilities, enabled by Honeywell’s Connected Aircraft software, which allows for the swift and remote retrieval of data from the aircraft for storage or analysis.

• Honeywell’s Connected Aircraft software enables operators to source flight data from thousands of parameters, creating improved efficiencies across an aircraft • New flight recorders will meet upcoming European Aviation Safety Agency mandate for storing a minimum of 25 hours of voice recordings In a major boost for airline accident investigations, two aviation leaders, Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW)and Honeywell have partnered to develop an entirely new way for airlines to monitor and analyze flight data. The companies will use real-time connectivity to reinvent the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and Flight Data Recorder (FDR) – commonly referred to as “black boxes” – for the commercial airline, cargo transport and business jet markets. The companies signed an agreement to develop the next generation of mandate-compliant voice and data recorders. As part of the new agreement, Curtiss-Wright will be the exclusive supplier for

“Honeywell and Curtiss-Wright have long been pioneers and innovators of crash protected recorders, providing flight data recorders to the industry for over 50 years,” said David C. Adams, Chairman and CEO of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. “Working together, we will take flight data recorder connectivity and performance to new heights, with extended operation and greater survivability. Bringing our combined experience to the marketplace will generate financial, safety and operational benefits for years to come.”

As a source of critical aircraft data, black

boxes passively collect large amounts of information from multiple sources during each flight. This ensures that, in the event of an accident, investigators can use the data to learn more about the chain of events leading up to it.

This new recorder will serve as a “Black Box in the Sky,” meaning owners, operators and manufacturers will have the option to access the data at all times, resulting in the potential for better maintenance predictability and operational insight through data analytics. In addition, in the event of an emergency, the data on board will be quickly accessible to investigators.

“The importance of reliable Cockpit Voice and Flight Data Recorders cannot be overstated. That’s why we are working alongside Curtiss-Wright to design and develop the next generation of recorders that leverages our full hardware and software expertise to meet the 25-hour requirement, to identify the right information and make it available to airline operators when it’s most needed,” said Ben Driggs, president, Services & Connectivity, at Honeywell Aerospace. “With the new regulatory requirement, we saw an opportunity to evolve our recorder technology to not only meet the conditions of governing agencies, but also make this product more powerful and better connected, providing aircraft operators with another source of data collection that can be used to improve aircraft maintenance and performance.”

The new CVR and FDR, based on Curtiss-Wright’s industry leading compact, lightweight Fortress flight data recorder technology, will surpass the requirements of the upcoming 2021 European Aviation Safety Agency minimum 25-hour cockpit voice recording mandate. This means the aircraft data can be used for more efficient operations, allowing for additional predictive maintenance and real-time playback of data and voice communications. Along with added connectivity, the next-generation recorders provide an easy upgrade that saves installation time and lowers costs due to their design as form-fit replacements for Honeywell’s HFR-5 series cockpit voice and flight data recorders.

Curtiss-Wright recently certified its Fortress recorder, a 25-hour CVR/FDR recorder that is used as the foundation for the new Honeywell Connected Recorder-25 or HCR-25.

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FPGAs for Short Run Military Applications

By Sausan Arebi, Chief Architect, Per Vices Corporation

Demands of Military Applications Demands on military communication systems are constantly expanding. Connectivity requirements between vehicles, sensors, and soldiers, on land, sea, and air, are increasing, as communication must be handled from any location at any time, while addressing market demands for additional channels, handling ever-more data and complexity. In response, solutions need to be reconfigurable while still accommodating for cost, power, and performance demands. Many solutions are available, but face issues with high data rates, flexibility, and available resources.

Possible Solutions ASICs Application specific integrated circuits (ASIC), as the name suggests, are chips used to implement a specific purpose, both analog and digital. This device functions the same throughout its lifetime, its hardware constant, and therefore has no room for faults, or for upgrades or adaptability. Additionally, they are expensive, time-consuming, and resource intensive to develop. Making them difficult to employ for military applications.

Microcontrollers Microcontrollers are a form of ASIC, they are a configurable alternative, but still do not offer the flexibility required for many military communication applications. They face similar problems, microcontrollers cannot be reprogrammed to perform different tasks and are optimized primarily for sequential tasks, making it difficult for them to perform parallel or complex tasks.

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sequence of operations, to be completed one at a time. This makes them unsuitable for large data volume rates, also making latency an issue, furthered by their lack of flexibility and limited parameters.

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)

What truly sets FPGAs apart from its alternatives is the inherent flexibility that it offers.

These semiconductor devices contain a combination of memory, logic, and digital signal processing blocks, meaning they can be configured to implement any desired operation, while also allowing for reusability, as they can be reprogrammed to perform completely different functions. Ideal for systems that require fast I/O, low latency, and intense computation.

Their advantages make them an ideal selection for short-run military applications. FPGAs are quick to market, as they are not pre-designed to perform a specific task, making them available as soon as the need arises. As mentioned, FPGAs are highly flexible, so much so that elements can be reconfigured during a mission, essential in battlefield in order to adapt to evolving threats. This also ensures the elimination of recurring expenses, FPGAs can be upgraded to address new requirements, their designs can be evolved, and they can be reprogrammed to perform different tasks. Another of FPGA’s greatest benefits is that it is capable of highly parallel tasks. This agility is the key to the performance increases that FPGAs enable, they are able to handle wide bandwidths and additional channels for video, voice, and data systems. Making them capable of handling multi-protocol, multi-band, multifunction communications, synchronization, and processing, crucial for military-level data-acquisition systems and signals intelligence. The security FPGAs offer is another large part of their appeal, especially in warfare where sensitive information is being exchanged.

FPGAs have a multitude of defense applications that include encryption and coding, secure wireless communications, radar and electronic warfare, network storage, and data analysis. These applications are expanding, especially when FPGAs are coupled with related hardware and software, accelerating their capabilities and offering users with a complete solution. One example of this is software defined radios (SDR), which are wireless receiving and transmitting devices whose functions are defined by software. Making them able to service a number of radio environments and meeting the increasing demands of consumers. SDRs are interoperable, able to generate compatible waveforms, easily adapted in a changing environment, precise, and fast, which is why they have been most notably adopted by the defence industry. They come in various options and prices, which combined with their reuse, makes them an optimal solution, especially for short-run military applications. These achievements would not be possible without their integration of FPGAs. Within SDRs, FPGAs deliver high performance and intense signal and computational processing on a highly programmable, adaptable platform.

This has made SDRs future-proof and capable of achieving greater depth analysis, as they can reconfigure on-the-fly to any radio frequency or augment the processing chain for modulation, demodulation, and signals intelligence that warfighters need to use.

How FPGAs are Used in SDRs Within SDRs, the analog-to-digital (A/D) converter samples the incoming signal and sends it to the baseband. This is then handled by the FPGA, which processes the data and conducts digital down conversion (DDC), to be better handled. The data is then sent to the FPGA for digital signal processing (DSP) including filtering, interpolation, decimation, etc. When this information has completed processing, it is sent either to a host system

System Block Diagram of the Cyan representing the standard 3U Configuration.

for further processing or analysis, or sent to the digital-to-analog (D/A) converter to be sent back or to another analog source. This sequence can be performed in reverse or in part as well. By doing more DSP on the FPGAs, SDRs are able to achieve optimal performance.

SDRs are made capable of switching between protocols and implementing customized architectures, meant for specific situations.

devices, there must be assurance that they are adequately equipped. With the use of FPGAs, SDRs can be tested for functionality and adapted to best suit the circumstances.

Defense applications are demanding that the devices they implement are able to achieve higher performance in small form factors, integrating more components into

Cyan is powered by an Altera Stratix 10 FPGA SoC with an on-chip quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 MPCore processor.

It is further complimented by providing users with a web-based interface.

Applications Since SDRs are so highly adaptable, they can be used for test hardware, best used for difficult applications and environments. On the battlefield, soldiers must maintain communication and have access to data and commands, despite their location and surroundings. In order to implement communication

a single solution. This is in order to provide them with an upper hand over adversaries by increasing the capability at the forward edge of battle. Providing soldiers, predominantly on foot, with portable computer power, communications, and sensors, necessary to keep them connected to real-time tactical information. Limited power is available for these

devices, but it is essential that they remain powered to remain connected. Alternatives must be found that consider size, weight, and power (SwaP) as their key driving factor in order to remain competitive. By integrating FGPAs into SDRs, they are able to adhere to all these requirements without sacrificing performance. Parallel processing reduces latency, reducing power dissipation, and in turn reducing power consumption. By integrating multiple functionalities into one device while maintaining use of legacy equipment, size and cost is reduced. By allowing for updates and the addition of system functions and features, accomplishing multiple mission requirements within one machine SDRs ensure equipment can be maintained without costly hardware replacements or modifications.

This is essential for deployment flexibility and maintaining performance.

Examples in Industry FPGAs have become an essential part of SDR technology, offering many benefits for COTS solutions. Companies like Per Vices are developing platforms designed around FPGAs, their newest SDR, Cyan, uses Intel’s Stratix 10 FPGA SoC. This high-performance, multi-functional product ensures Cyan is the SDR of choice, with the necessary application agnostic technology to provide the flexibility and integration capabilities necessary for COTS Journal | March 2019

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the best possible SDR solution, Cyan ensures that military applications have the necessary performance for modern and future warfare.

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Achieving Multicore Determinism for Safety-Critical Applications Richard Jaenicke, Green Hills Software

All multicore hardware architectures include shared resources, such as memory controllers, DDR memory, I/O, cache, and the internal fabric that connects them (Figure 1). Contention for these shared resources results when multiple processor cores try to access the same resource concurrently. In safety-critical applications, the principal concern is how such shared resource contention can cause an application running on one core to interfere with an application running on another core, negatively affecting determinism, quality of service, and, ultimately, safety.

The effects of shared resource contention can be quite large if left unmitigated. In a quad-core processor, with the cores only accessing DDR memory over the on-chip interconnect with no I/O access, multiple sources of interference from multiple cores have shown increases in worstcase execution time (WCET) over 12x. Due to shared resource arbitration and scheduling algorithms in the DDR controller, fairness is not

guaranteed, and interference impacts are often non-linear. In fact, tests show that a single interfering core can increase WCET on another core by a factor of 8x. The result is that an application with lower priority or criticality could keep an application with higher priority or criticality from performing its intended function.

Efforts to ease the safety-critical implementation of multicore processors are underway. Several standards have been updated to address multicore issues, such as ARINC 653, which covers space and time partitioning of real-time operating systems (RTOS) for safety-critical avionics applications. ARINC 653 was updated in 2015 (ARINC 653 Part 1 Supplement 4) to address multicore operation for individual applications, which it calls “partitions.” The Open Group’s Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE™) technical standard version 3.0 addresses multicore support by requiring compliance with Supplement 4. Directly addressing the issue of multicore interfe-

rence, the Certification Authority Software Team (CAST), supported by the FAA, EASA, TCCA, and other aviation authorities, has published a position paper with guidance for multicore systems called CAST-32A. Together, these documents provide the requirements for successfully using multicore solutions for applications certifiable up to DAL A, the highest RTCA/DO-178C design assurance level for safety-critical software.

High Assurance through Partitioning Space and Time In a single-core processor, multiple safety-critical applications may execute on the same processor by robustly partitioning the memory space and processor time between the hosted applications. Memory space partitioning dedicates a non-overlapping portion of memory to each application running at a given time, enforced by the processor’s memory management unit (MMU). Time partitioning divides a fixed time interval, called a Major Frame, into a sequence of fixed sub-intervals referred to as partition time windows. Each application is allocated one or more partition time windows, with the length and number of windows being factors of the application’s worst-case execution time and required repetition rate. The operating system (OS) ensures that each application is provided access to the processor‘s core during its allocated time. To apply these safety-critical techniques to multicore processors requires overcoming several complex challenges, the most difficult being interference between cores via the shared resources.

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CAST-32A provides certification guidance for addressing interference in multicore processors. One approach is to create a special use case based on testing and analysis of WCET for every application/partition and their worstcase utilization of shared resources. Special use case solutions, though, can lead to vendor lock

and re-verification of the entire system with the change of any one application/partition, making that approach a significant barrier to the implementation and sustainment of an integrated modular avionics (IMA) system. Without OS mechanisms and tools to support the mitigation of interference, sustainment costs and risk are very high. Changes to any one application will require complete WCET re-verification activities for all integrated applications.

The better approach is to have the OS effectively manage interference based on the availability of DAL A runtime mechanisms, libraries, and tools that address CAST-32A objectives.

This approach provides the system integrator with an effective, flexible, and agile solution. It also simplifies the addition of new applications without major changes to the system architecture, reduces re-verification activities, and helps eliminate OEM vendor lock.

Effective Utilization of Multicore Resources To achieve the throughput and SWaP benefits of multicore solutions, the software architecture needs to support high utilization of the available processor cores. All multicore features must be supported, from enabling concurrent operation of cores (versus available cores being forced into an idle state or held in reset at startup) to providing a mechanism for deterministic load balancing. The more flexible the software multiprocessing architecture,

the more tools the system architect has to achieve high utilization.

Software Multi-Processing Architectures Like multi-processor systems, the software architecture on multicore processors can be classified by how memory from other processors or cores is accessed and whether each processor or core runs its own copy of the OS. The simplest software architecture for a multicore-based system is Asymmetric Multi-Processing (AMP), where each core is run independently, each with its own OS or a Guest OS on top of a hypervisor.

Each core runs a different application with little or no meaningful coordination between the cores in terms of scheduling. This decoupling can result in underutilization due to lack of load balancing, difficulty mitigating shared resource contention, and the inability to perform coordinated activity across cores such as required for comprehensive built-in test.

To address this, CAST-32A references the use of Bound Multi-Processing (BMP). BMP is an enhanced and restricted form of SMP that statically binds an application’s tasks to specific cores, allowing the system architect to tightly control the concurrent operation of multiple cores. BMP directly follows the multicore requirement in ARINC 653 Supplement 4 section 2.2.1 which states: “Multiple processes within a partition scheduled to execute concurrently on different processor cores.” This means that the architecture needs to enable a multithreaded application to run across multiple processor cores in parallel.

Example of a Multicore RTOS for Safety Certification

The modern alternative is Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP), where a single OS controls all the resources, including which application threads are run on which cores. This architecture is easy to program because all cores access resources “symmetrically,” freeing the OS to assign any thread to any core.

Green Hill’s INTEGRITY®-178 tuMP is a unified multicore RTOS that supports simultaneous combinations of AMP, SMP, and BMP. The RTOS’s Time-variant Unified Multi-Processing (tuMP™) approach provides maximum flexibility for porting, extending, and optimizing safety-critical and security-critical applications to a multicore architecture. It starts with a time-partitioned kernel running across all cores that allows any combination of AMP, SMP, and BMP applications to be bound to a core or groups of cores called affinity groups (Figure 2 on previuos page). It then adds time-variance so that partition time windows do not need to be aligned across cores.

Not knowing which threads will be running on which cores is a significant challenge and a risk for deterministic operation in critical systems.

INTEGRITY-178 tuMP also includes a Bandwidth Allocation and Monitoring (BAM) capability, developed to DO-178C DAL A objectives.

Figure 2 - INTEGRITY-178 tuMP allows any mix of AMP, BMP, and SMP applications, and it allows the bindings of applications to cores to change between partition time windows.

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The system architect decides how much bandwidth to allocate to each core based on the functional requirements of the applications or design assurance levels. When applications on a particular core reach the threshold bandwidth for a given BAM time quantum, that core is cut off from consuming shared resources until the next BAM time quantum. Using this mechanism, a DAL-A application running on core 0 can be allocated a set amount of resources, such as 60% of the total bandwidth, while the other 3 cores could be allocated only 15%, 15%, and 10% respectively (Figure 3).

The INTEGRITY-178 tuMP RTOS enables multiple independent applications to execute on a multicore environment in a predictable, bounded, and application independent manner. Its BAM capability enables system integrators to identify and mitigate interference in multicore systems. By directly addressing the CAST-32A guidance for multicore interference, BAM significantly lowers integration and certification risk.

Together, BAM and the flexible multiprocessing architecture of INTEGRITY-178 tuMP allow system integrators to achieve their SWaP objectives by enabling optimal core utilization while maintaining the determinism needed for safety-critical applications.

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COT’S PICKS Diamond Introduces Family of Embedded Computing Solutions for NVIDIA® Jetson™ Computer Modules Diamond Systems, a leading global provider for rugged, I/O-rich embedded computing solutions, has introduced a family of solutions for delivering AI-at-the-edge high performance computing solutions based on NVIDIA Jetson TX2, TX2i and AGX Xavier™ modules. The family includes four carrier boards as well as a finished system housed in an ultracompact enclosure.

These solutions target a range of industrial and military applications, with a focus on harsh environments such as vehicles and other outdoor applications.

Diamond’s carriers bring out the unique characteristics of the Jetson family of computer modules while enhancing them with additional I/O and features. Ziggy™ and Jethro™ carriers are designed to work with the Jetson TX2 and TX2i system-on-modules (SoM), while Stevie™ and Elton™ provide a platform for implementing solutions with the AGX Xavier high-end module.

In keeping with Diamond’s “Rugged I/O” and “2in-1” philosophies, all products feature data ac-

quisition capability, maximum feature density, and wide temperature operation combined with shock and vibration resistance.

Particularly noteworthy among the Diamond family is the full-fledged PCI/104-Express expansion socket present on the Elton carrier. Unique in the NVIDIA ecosystem, Elton bridges the emerging world of AI/ ML technology with the long-life, highly successful, rugged industrial embedded computing ecosystem of PC/104. Elton provides support for PCI-104, PCIe/104 type 2 (x8 lane), and PCIe/104 OneBank expansion modules (4 x1 lanes), enabling rapid creation of truly rugged, custom-configured, high performance, PCIebased solutions using off-the-shelf I/O modules from a large number of manufacturers worldwide.

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The Diamond product family features a compact and costeffective yet full-featured data acquisition circuit with analog input, analog output, and digital I/O to interface to the “real world” of analog and digital sensors

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it particularly suitable for use in industrial automation, process control, high-end image processing and for SCADA/MES applications as well as in operator-related areas such as process control and the medical environment.

KISS 1U Short V3 CFL tailored for applications where maximum performance, space-saving installation and low noise level matters

Its powerful 8th Generation Intel® Core™ i7/ i5/i3 processor with Intel® C246 Express chipset, as well as the modular design in a 44-millimeter-high and 350-millimeter-deep 1U chassis, make the new, space-saving short version of the KISS (“Kontron Industrial Silent Server”) a reliable, scalable solution. Thanks to removable drives and various expansion slots, the system can be flexibly adapted to customer requirements.

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Kontron presents the KISS 1U Short V3 CFL Rackmount PC, a particularly compact member of the KISS product family for demanding industrial applications. The robust and space-saving 1U industrial computer features a powerful configuration and almost noiseless operation. This makes

and controls. A programming library provides support for rapid development of custom applications, while a ready-to-run application with graphical user interface provides convenient real-time control of the data acquisition I/O as well as data logging.

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Industrial Rackmount PC for demanding applications The KISS product family meets the high requirements in extreme environments: Thanks to the effective cooling concept, the rackmount system can operate in a temperature range from 0°C to plus 50°C during continuous operation.

The storage elements can even withstand temperatures from minus 20°C to plus 70°C. Even a humidity of 10 to 93 percent does not affect function. Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) is over 50,000 hours, which corresponds to almost six years of continuous operation.

The new KISS 1U Short V3 CFL runs Windows 10 LTSB or Ubuntu Linux and has two USB 2.0 interfaces on the front, four USB 3.0 interfaces on the rear, two Gigabit LAN ports and a DVI-D port. Thanks to RAID support, 3.5-inch SATA removable drives and various expansion slots such as M.2 2280 or a PCIe x16 low profile, the system can be flexibly adapted to customer requirements.

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COT’S PICKS Lynx Software Technologies launches Lynx Mosa.ic – a simpler, more intuitive way to build robust and secure software systems Lynx Software Technologies today announced Mosa.ic. Lynx MOSA.ic adds a new perspective to application development that simplifies the creation, certification, and maintenance of inherently complex software systems, giving developers deeper insight and increased control over how applications are realized onto modern CPUs.

Lynx MOSA.ic is an advance in helping these developers create, certify and maintain the highly complex systems they are designing using our newest technology.”

In the traditional, operating system (OS)based model of application development, applications must rely on OS APIs for transferring and storing data, forcing applications to inherit the architecture properties of their underlying OS. Assuming multiple layers of abstraction beginning at the application level, developers have

Will Keegan, Chief Technology Officer, Lynx Software Technologies, commented, “The majority of the pain points faced in software-based systems stem from overly complex platforms rooted in porous foundational architecture. As a platform vendor it is non-trivial to maintain robust assurances while accommodating the relentless demands of new features, hardware compatibility, and legacy interoperability. Lynx MOSA. ic™ has been carefully crafted at the architecture level to adapt to changes while preserving fundamental assurance properties—a balance elegantly achieved through maintaining the absolute minimum amount of abstraction layers.”

“Across the industry, Arm®v-8A architecture virtualization features are crucial in enabling software development for safety and security-critical systems for applications Will Keagan, Chief Technology Officer including autonomous and connected vehicles,” said Robert Day, Director, Automo- had little alternative but to embrace higher levtive Solutions & Platforms, Automotive and IoT els of resulting system complexity, keeping overLine of Business, Arm. “Arm is expanding devel- all system comprehensibility out of reach. It is oper support by collaborating with leaders like tremendously difficult to manage and maintain Lynx to reduce costs, complexity and develop- such complex systems, as unintended system ment time by forging a robust and comprehensi- behaviors — rooted in those same hidden layers ble software platform based on Arm processors.” of complexity — lead to critical safety failures and security breaches.

Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC is one of Lynx MOSA.ic leverages CPU virtualization the first platforms to be supported on MOSA. to offer a simpler distributed resource control ic. Simon George, Director, Marketing – System model in place of the traditional OS-based cenSoftware and SoC Solutions at Xilinx, added, “The combination of LynxSecure and the Xil- tral resource management model; removing as inx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC gives developers much complexity as possible between applicain safety-critical industries the ability to build tion interfaces and hardware. Founded on a solutions that meet their exacting demands. configurable framework for partitioning hard-

ware, Lynx MOSA.ic™ begins by decentralizing resource management and application services, allowing independent applications to manage their own resources. Developers are then provided with cross development kits for building application modules of varying size, quality, and complexity, as well as integration tools for linking in partner and competitor provided modules — modules which can then be precisely mapped to independently managed hardware resources.

By relinquishing central control over the CPU, Lynx MOSA.ic opens the path to comprehensibility and unlocks unprecedented modular integration capabilities for the rapid development of robust systems.

Lynx MOSA.ic delivers on the vision of the Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA). Lynx MOSA.ic — a “Modular Open Systems Architecture Integration Center” — uniquely allows developers to integrate independent software components within its development framework — including previously compiled legacy components and components authored by competing vendors — bringing the concept of MOSA to the command line.

Lynx MOSA.ic delivers the highest number of options at the lowest possible lifetime cost for rapidly building robust, resilient, reusable software systems.

The foundation of Lynx MOSA.ic is a programmable processor partitioning system based on the proven LynxSecure separation kernel hypervisor. Unlike traditional hypervisors — which uniformly manage host virtual machines (VMs) through a centralized resource manager —LynxSecure isolates computing resources into independent distributed environments which are uniquely capable of managing themselves while providing software development tools for building guests at just the right complexity levels demanded by specific target environments. Forgoing the traditionally inherited complexities of a centralized resource management model, Lynx MOSA.ic unlocks multi-core virtualization as a viable option for managing the costs and design challenges faced when building robust software systems within highly regulated embedded markets.

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COT’S PICKS Concurrent Technologies releases 3U VPX Board based on feedback from the SOSA Consortium

Concurrent Technologies announces a rugged 3U VPX™ board for compute intensive applications that has been developed to align with a new OpenVPX profile based on feedback from the SOSA™ Consortium. TR H4x/3sd-RCx is the first processor board from Concurrent Technologies with a 40G Ethernet data plane connection, providing a significant interconnect performance boost. It has a front panel graphics and USB con-

Technology Dynamics Inc. New 20003000 Watt Rugged DC-DC Converter This unit is designed for Industrial and Military applications where High Power, Highly Regulated DC is required. Power levels range from 2000-3000 Watts. The NTDC Series is designed to meet Harsh Environment applications including MIL-STD-810.

Technology Dynamics Inc. DC-DC Converters offers the industry’s most complete range of input and output voltages, with a selection of standard, modified and full custom packages, power levels, styles and mounting configurations. Contact us today for your exact needs.

Pentek’s Jade Architecture Digital I/O XMC Module • 38 pairs of Configurable LVDS Digital I/O • Jade Architecture with Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale FPGA offers price, power and processing performance advantages • Navigator Design Suite expedites development and custom IP integration Pentek the newest member of the Jade™ family of data converter XMC modules. The Model 71810 is based on the Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale FPGA and features LVDS digital I/O to meet custom requirements. The Model 71810 routes 38 pairs of LVDS connections from the FPGA to an 80-pin connector on the front panel. When mounted on a compatible single board computer or other XMC carrier, the Model 71810 provides a fully customizable I/O signal status and control interface.

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nection for ease of setup and operates from a single +12V power rail to simplify the creation of system level solutions.

By default, TR H4x/3sd-RCx is fitted with a 12-core Intel® Xeon® processor D-1559 and 64GB of soldered down DDR4 memory making it suitable for workload consolidation tasks in highly challenging environments. Thermal qualification is scheduled for Q2 to confirm that the processor device can be operated at 100% loading, maximizing performance within a single slot like the company’s previous generation TR G4x/3sd-RCx.

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meet needs from low cost to high performance,” said Robert Sgandurra, director of Product Management. “Pentek’s modular approach to product design lets us quickly tune our products to our customer’s needs.” The Jade XMC line uses personality modules to enable customization of XMC front end functions to meet customer I/O needs.

The Model 71810 can be populated with a range of Kintex UltraScale FPGAs to match specific requirements of the processing task, spanning from the entry-level KU035 (with 1,700 DSP slices) to the high-performance KU115 (with 5,520 DSP slices). The KU115 is ideal for demanding modulation/demodulation, encoding/ decoding, encryption/decryption, and channelization of the signals between transmission and reception. For applications not requiring large DSP resources or logic, a lower-cost FPGA can be installed.

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Concurrent Technologies is offering variants fitted with either 512GB or 1TB of direct-attached FIPS-197 encrypted storage. This is achieved using an M.2 module carrier while maintaining a single slot solution. These M.2 modules are supplied factory-fitted for ease of use and further storage options are planned for later in 2019. Concurrent Technologies offers several security options including TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, Sanitization Utilities and a bespoke enhanced security package for specific customer needs.

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COT’S PICKS PolarFire FPGA-Based Solution Enables Lowest-Power, SmallestForm-Factor 4K Video and Imaging Applications New development kit includes IP, reference designs and solutions to give designers the ability to implement high-resolution smart vision system Today’s video and imaging processing involves developing complex computer algorithms which enable systems to capture and display information and high-resolution images. As designers require high-performance computing, memory and connectivity resources to achieve high-resolution imaging with rich, vivid detail, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are excellent platforms to achieve this, as they can perform thousands of tasks in parallel to maximize data throughput. The new PolarFire FPGA imaging and video solution from Microchip Technology Inc. addresses these challenges by delivering capabilities superior to alternative technologies to support resolution as high as 4K in small, low-power form factors necessary for a wide variety of imaging and video applications.

Microchip’s award-winning PolarFire FPGAs—originally launched in February 2017 by Microsemi Corporation, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Microchip—are ideal for these

mid-bandwidth (4K/2K) imaging/video applications due to their rich memory and Digital Signal Processor (DSP) resources in addition to offering up to 50 percent lower power than competing Static Random-Access Memory (SRAM)-based devices.

The new imaging and video solution comes with a complete ecosystem for customers, including comprehensive application-specific hardware, optimized intellectual property suite for image processing, sample reference designs, demonstration designs and collateral—providing designers with the hardware and software needed to implement 4K resolution designs targeting PolarFire FPGAs. The video and imaging kit enables high-performance evaluation of 4K image processing and rendering using dual-camera sensors suitable for designing demonstrations for video stitching, static and dynamic object insertion, as well as real depth estimation based on disparity maps. With its modular intellectual property suite providing clients the ability to prototype and accelerate time to market, the kit can be leveraged for multiple projects to save costs, time and effort.

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Avalex Unveils Osprey Mission Management System

Avalex Technologies is introducing the Osprey Mission Management System, which includes multiple field proven product lines. With this system, military and law enforcement will see seamless integration between their Cockpit Management, Smart Multi-function Displays, Digital Video Recorders, Video/Data Switching, and Mission Processors.

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The Avalex Cockpit Management Unit (CMU) family has a novel method of controlling several different types of military radios with a common user interface and matches ease-of-use with superior functionality. The CMU family includes the ACM9433K, ACM9443, and ACM9454K. The CMU product line saves much needed space and weight in any cockpit.

VPX advances with TE MULTIGIG RT connector platform

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Our Avalex Video Recorder (AVR) family offers single and multi-channel digital video recorders in a compact, Dzus-style mounted housing. From 1080p60 to standard definition NTSC or PAL, the AVR can record, play back, and play-back-while-record the wide range of signals required by ISR platforms. Our AVR line includes the AVR8411, AVR8414, AVR8425, and AVR8424.

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COT’S PICKS Paragon Software Group and Visuality Systems Cooperate to Deliver the Industry’s Best File-sharing Capabilities with Integrated SMB Protocol for OEMs Through Better Interoperability Between Windows and Non-Windows Machine Paragon Software and Visuality announce their partnership and cooperation in merging SMB server/client and file systems to deliver the best cross-platform SMB solutions for OEMs. Paragon Software Group’s File System Link (FSL) delivers the industry’s best cross-platform tools.

NQE™ is a portable client and server solution that can be integrated into any embedded device with any OS, a CPU or compiler.

With the new partnership, Visuality Systems’ NQE series will be integrated into Paragon’s file system drivers enabling device OEMs active in industry verticals such as automotive, Storage industry, Consumer Devices, Aerospace and Defense, Medical, Industrial Automation, Smart Devices, to deliver secure cross-platform file sharing solution to their end customers. The integrated file

Artesyn MC1600 Series Extreme Edge Server Enables Baicells’ Fully Virtualized Small Cell Solutions The server platform brings powerful computing and scalability to Baicells M-RAN small cell installations Artesyn Embedded Technologies announced a collaboration with Baicells, a leading provider of innovative 4G/5G solutions, for the development of Baicells M-RAN virtual small cell solutions based on Artesyn’s MC1600 Extreme Edge Server.

The MC1600 Series Extreme Edge Server platform will bring powerful computing, scalability and interoperability, in addition to many other benefits, to the Baicells MPU77001 M-RAN small cell solution.

sharing solution features secure SMB3 encryption, substantially smaller footprint and memory usage compared to open source stacks, benchmark leading data transfer speeds and unprecedented reliability.

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Paragon Software www.paragon-software.com

Since its inception in 1998, Visuality Systems has pioneered the SMB protocol for commercial deployment developing the non-GPL licensed NQ™ products – a commercial replacement for opensource SAMBA. The NQ series are utilized in all possible areas from storage, consumer devices, aerospace and defense, medical, industrial automation, smart devices and more. The partnership with Paragon will provide Visuality Systems the ability to sell the Visuality Systems NQ product line to many more parts of the world and enter into further market sectors.

Sam Widerman, CEO of Visuality Systems, said “Visuality Systems is very proud to announce the partnership with Paragon. Both Visuality Systems and Paragon are industry experts with worldwide leading and certified technologies that are utilized in millions of devices around the globe. At the end it is all about customer requirements. Together Visuality Systems and Paragon can provide customers with solutions that are dependable, very The MC1600 Series Extreme Edge Server is designed to be deployed in remote installations with a wide environmental temperature range and side-to-side cooling found in many outdoor cabinets. While initially targeted at vRAN applications, the MC1600 Series Extreme Edge Server is ideal for industrial site monitoring, Internet of Things (IoT) gateways, and smart cities applications as well as private cloud installations both on-premise and remote.

Artesyn has provided innovative computing platforms for virtualized and cloud RAN applications to some of the largest telecom operators, system integrators and equipment providers in the world. With public demonstrations supporting mini-cRAN, vRAN, multi-access edge computing, augmented and virtual reality, and autonomous vehicle control, Artesyn’s computing platforms are the foundation for emerging smart city infrastructure, 4G and 5G networks, and the monetization of new consumer services by operators.

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well tested and reliable, plus introductions to more market sectors that will benefit both companies.”

Pixus Offers New Configurations of 6U OpenVPX Backplanes Pixus Technologies has released new OpenVPX backplanes for 6U applications. The designs include a 9-slot, 6-slot power and ground, 5-slot, and a 1-slot development backplane.

The 5-slot 6U OpenVPX backplane from Pixus has a BKP6CEN05-11.2.5 profile. It features PCIe Gen3 speed performance. For development applications, Pixus now offers power and ground only backplanes.

This allows signals to pass through to the rear transition modules (RTMs) for easy prototyping and de-bugging. These backplanes come in 1-slot and 6-slot versions. The one slot version also features an interface for a VITA 62 power supply. The Pixus roadmap includes a 6U, 16-slot OpenVPX backplane utilizing a fully loaded system.

Pixus Technologies http://www.pixustechnologies.com

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8-Channel Thermocouple and RTD Simulator Boards from UEI

United Electronic Industries (UEI) announced the release of the DNx-TC-378 8-Channel Thermocouple Simulator board and the DNx-RTD-388 8-Channel RTD Simulator board.

Both the boards are compatible with all of UEI’s popular “Cube”, RACKtangle® and FLATRACK I/O chassis and further complement UEI’s extensive simulator output offerings which include RVDT/ LVDT, Synchro/Resolver and Strain Gage boards.

All boards are covered by UEI’s 10-Year Availability Guarantee to ensure long-term success in your applications.

The DNx-TC-378 is a high-precision thermocouple (TC) simulator offering16-bit resolution and offers better than 0.6°C accuracy with most thermocouple types. Each channel is fully isolated from all others and is capable of simulating the full TC range. Built in support for J, K, T, E, N, R, and S type TC is included. The board provides

cold-junction compensation so field connections can be made wherever required. The board will simulate an open TC and includes voltage and current diagnostic readback on each channel.

The DNx-RTD-388 simulates 1000Ω RTDs and is based on actual switched resistors, precisely duplicating the behavior of actual RTDs. The board supports 2, 3 and 4-wire configurations with accuracy of 0.26°C (1Ω). The board is an ideal solution for simulator / SIL applications where an on-board device expects an RTD as an input. Both open and short circuit conditions are simulated. The board also has built in diagnostic current monitoring capability. The board is an ideal solution for simulator / SIL applications where an on-board device expects an RTD as an input. The RTD-388 series simulates a 1000 Ω RTD while the standard DNx-RTD-388-100 simulates 100Ω RTDs. Other resistance versions are available on a special-order basis.

United Electronic Industries www.ueidaq.com

TRACE32 provides JTAG Debug Support for Lynx MOSA.ic™

TRACE32 also enables Lynx MOSA.ic users to effectively debug start-up code, including bootloaders.

Lauterbach announce full JTAG debug support for Lynx MOSA.icTM, a software development framework for building modular, comprehensible software systems from Lynx Software Technologies.

Lynx MOSA.ic is an open platform that can host a wide range of rich third-party operating systems, including LynxOS-178 and Linux, and allow them to independently execute at different safety and security levels. TRACE32 will detect all parti-

Working closely with Lynx, Lauterbach has extended the capabilities of the TRACE32 debug environment to include comprehensive debug support of Lynx MOSA.ic systems realized on multi-core Arm processors. TRACE32 from Lauterbach brings a new level of visibility into Lynx MOSA.ic-based systems by providing developers with the ability to access all parts of the system at any time from within a single debug environment.

Lynx MOSA.ic enables developers to remove a lot of complexity in their designs by decomposing applications into modules that run either directly on “bare metal”, or on simple real-time kernels. The integration with TRACE32 offers Lynx MOSA.ic developers a powerful environment for debugging these applications.

tions and their memory configurations, providing the debugger with access to the entire system from the virtualization layer, through the guest operating systems and their respective partitions, and on into the application code running in those guests. This feature works whether the guest operating systems are active (assigned to a core) or not. By extending the addressing scheme, TRACE32 can uniquely identify any address within any partition allowing debug symbols to be bound to these extended addresses. This provides developers with the ability to view anything in the entire system whenever they want simply by accessing the debug symbols.

TRACE32 provides kernel awareness for many common operating systems and these work in conjunction with the Lynx MOSA.ic awareness to give users the ability to access operating system objects, such as tasks, from all of the guest operating systems simultaneously. The rich debug environment of TRACE32 coupled with this complete access is ideal for testing safety- and security-critical systems on actual production hardware where guest isolation is paramount and where the system needs certification.

Lauterbach www.lauterbach.com

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March 2019

COT’S PICKS First High-Bandwidth 3U OpenVPX FPGA Board Augments Growing 100Gb COTS EcoSystem

Annapolis Micro Systems is now shipping its first 3U OpenVPX COTS FPGA board with 100GbE capability. The Wildstar 3XBM 3U Open VPX FPGA Processor’s superior bandwidth and speed is designed to address the most challenging real-time data digitization, processing, and storage applications.

The 3U board’s debut follows the November introduction of the first 100Gb-capable 6U Board, the Wildstar 6XB2. Both boards align with the SOSA™ technical standard.

The 3XBM integrates one Xilinx Kintex® UltraS-

Elma Electronic Inc. now offers the ComSys-5301 The ComSys-5301, a highly rugged embedded computing systems designed for SWaP-constrained, harsh environments. Based on the industry standard COM Express and mini PCIe form factors, the modular computer is easily configured and upgraded with application-targeted I/O, CPU and storage.

Designed using Elma’s extensive packaging expertise, the new ComSys-5301 endures tough environmental conditions to provide highly reliable, long-term performance. With special attention paid to SWaP optimization, the system is lightweight and

cale™ (XCKU115) or Virtex® UltraScale+™ (XCVU5P/ XCVU7P) FPGA and a Xilinx Zynq® UltraScale+ MPSoC (XCZU7EV) motherboard controller. The high-performance board also has a WILD FMC+ (WFMC+™) next generation I/O site, for dense, high-bandwidth ADCs and/or DACs. High-bandwidth backplane connectivity is enabled by MULTIGIG RT3 interconnects. The new high-density RT3 is 2.5X faster than existing technology, and enables PCIe Gen-4, 100 Gbps Ethernet, and InfiniBand high-speed bandwidths. The RT3 maintains backwards compatibility with the earlier MULTIGIG RT2.

with high throughput,” said Noah Donaldson, Annapolis Micro Systems Chief Technology Officer.

“With 16 LVDS and 12 HSS backplane connections, the 3XBM provides significant high-bandwidth VPX backplane I/O.” Annapolis Micro Systems www.annapmicro.com

“This 3U board was developed in close collaboration with our customers, who require fully-synchronized high performance processing, combined energy-efficient, while still offering high performance processing.

as intense shock, vibration and humidity, typically found in rugged, mobile applications.

The integration of advanced computing technology with a rugged, compact design makes the ComSys-5301 perfect for use in ground vehicles, unmanned systems and vehicles, drilling and mining operations, command centers and other mission critical applications.

Approximate weight is just 6 lbs. and the system can be wall or table mounted, per VITA 75.

Elma Electronic Inc. www.elma.com

The fanless ComSys-5301 uses passive conduction cooling and features a 4th Gen Intel Celeron CPU, solid state storage, dual Gigabit Ethernet ports and flexible I/O configurations. Robust MIL38999 connectors ensure that the I/O interfaces can withstand severe environmental conditions, such

IC-FEP-VPX6e The high-end IC-FEP-VPX6e is a 6U VPX front-end processing board based on 2* Kintex® UltraScale™ FPGAs and 1*QorIQ LS1046A processor (quad 64-bit Arm® Cortex®-A72 cores). Each FPGA is coupled with two DDR4 SDRAM memory banks, two optional DDRII SRAM memory banks and SPI Mirror flash memories for local bitstreams storage and for user parameters. The on-board PCIe advanced switch allows versatile coupling between the processor, the FPGAs and the VPX connector P1 fabric links. Two FMC+ sites are VITA 57.4 FMC compliant Air-cooled and conduction-cooled versions are available.

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VersaLogic Corp announced a new server-class product in a compact 110 x 155 x 48 mm package.

MIL-STD-202H for high impact and vibration, the Grizzly is the first 16-core embedded computer to offer this much performance in a compact, rugged package.

Named “Grizzly”, the new embedded server product features an Intel 16-core processor, high speed 10 Gb Ethernet channels, and operation over the full -40° to +85°C industrial temperature range. This rugged, compact server product was designed to address the increasing need for server-class products in hostile environments.

The Grizzly includes two SFP+ interface connectors which support ultra high-speed 10 Gigabit Ethernet. They accept plug-in adaptors for copper connections, short-reach fiber, and long-reach fiber connections. The Grizzly also includes standard 1 Gb Ethernet ports, USB 3.0, digital I/O, and SATA 3 ports. Two mini-PCIe sockets support plug-in on-board expansion devices, such as GPS modules.

High-performance processing and data collection is moving out of the server rack and out to the edge, even in non-friendly environments. A ruggedly built, temperature-tolerant server is the answer. From smart-grid and smart-city applications, to transportation, security and defense applications, VersaLogic’s new embedded server will pour on the performance and the reliability.

Designed and tested for full industrial temperature operation (-40° to +85°C), as well as

M.2 socket that supports up to 2 TB of highspeed solid state storage.

Like other VersaLogic products, the Grizzly is designed from the ground up for long-term availability (10+ year typical production lifecycle).

VersaLogic Corp www.versalogic.com

Within its 110 x 155 x 48 mm package, the Grizzly supports up to 128 GB of ECC memory.

This significant memory capacity simplifies running larger virtual machines and fully leveraging all 16 cores. The ECC (error correcting) memory guards against single bit memory errors, which can occur in outer space and high-altitude applications.

On-board data storage is supported by an

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