Tough Enough

Intended for harsh field conditions, the Zypad WR1100 from Parvus is designed to meet MIL-STD-810F environmental and MIL-STD-461E EMI requirements, making it an ideal solution for military, homeland defense, first responder, security, and emergency service field and in-vehicle applications. This x86 compatible rugged wearable computer can be worn comfortably on the user’s wrist for hands-free operation. The WR1100 can be quickly config- ured to access any remote host system through its inte- grated wired and/or wireless interfaces using its Linux operating system. The unit integrates a number of inno- vative features, including 802.11 and Bluetooth/Zigbee interfaces, a GPS receiver, electronic compass, biometric fingerprint sensor, and a tilt-and-dead reckoning system that detects the position of the user’s arm and sets the system to standby mode when the arm is hanging down beside the body. Another major benefit of the WR1100 is its modularity—the ability to change the functions for the device by merely replacing a module. If the user wishes to switch from a GPS receiver to a GPRS module, for example, this can be done through a simple, plug-and-play, hot swap operation. The battery module can also be easily removed and replaced in the field with hot swapping functionality.

Single Board Unit Designed for Future Combat Systems Use

Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has announced the VPX6-1952, its first rugged 6U VPX single board computer based on the Intel Core2 Duo processor T9400. The VPX6-1952 was designed for use as the General Processor Modules for use in the Integrated Computer System of the Army’s Future Combat Systems program. The VPX6-1952 is based on the Intel Core2 Duo processor T9400, which delivers significantly enhanced energyefficient performance, making it an ideal x86 platform for space, weight and power-limited aerospace and defense applications. This Intel Core2 Duo processor integrates two complete execution cores in one physical package, providing advancements in simultaneous computing for multi-threaded applications and multi-tasking environments. Intel’s hafnium-based 45nm Hi-k silicon process technology enables even more processor performance by doubling transistor density and increasing cache size by up to 50 percent. The Intel Core2 Duo processor T9400 is validated with the Mobile Intel GM45 Express chipset, providing excellent processor and graphics performance, storage speed and reliability, and up to 8 GB of 800 MHz DDR3 system memory.

Embedded System Designed for Multifunction Control

Adlink Technology has announced availability of the industry’s first extreme rugged system based on the Intel Core2 Duo processor and GME965 chipset. The Ampro by Adlink RuffSystem 840 integrates dualcore processor, RAM, graphics, networking, and PCI Express expansion in an extreme rugged enclosure that operates from -40 to +75 degrees Celsius. The new rugged embedded system is intended for use in a wide range of applications, including military multifunction control such as C4ISR, mobile vehicle positioning, navigation, rugged data acquisition, and imaging devices. Designed from the start for extreme rugged environments, RuffSystem 840 provides the lowest total cost of ownership while improving time-to-market by integrating rugged designed boards and validating the complete system, saving customer efforts in trial and error integration and validation on their own. The RuffSystem 840 showcases the Intel Core2 Duo L7500 1.66GHz 45nm processor with support for 4 MB of on-chip L2 cache, 800 MHz FSB (front side bus), and two SODIMM sockets for up to 4 GB of DDR2 RAM. The board’s built-in graphics display subsystem utilizes Intel’s GMA950 with 224 MB of 64-bit video RAM, and can drive CRTs, flat panels, and wide screen digital TVs at resolutions of up to 2048 by 1536.

Platform Harnesses Power of Graphics Processing Unit

With the new Mercury Sensor Stream Computing Platform, embedded stream computing customers can benchmark and evaluate application performance in their choice of graphics processing unit (GPU) environments, and then migrate to a larger deployed solution. Built on in-depth, unparalleled expertise in algorithm and processor optimization, the VXS-based Mercury Sensor Stream Computing Platform offers unsurpassed scalability in compute power, performance, and thermal management, and allows for much greater, tunable performance for a variety of commercial and defense applications. The platform leverages a dual dual-core Intel Xeon-based VX6-200 single-board computer, which offers unprecedented levels of compute performance and a wide selection of I/O interfaces. At the heart of the Platform is the VXS-GSC5200 dual MXM GPU module, which delivers very high bandwidth performance to each GPU from the host, as well as between GPUs. Each MXM GPU module can drive up to 3 display monitors (1 analog and 2 digital). The unit addresses the issues of time, bandwidth, and resources targeted at deployable, rugged applications in the ISR space. ♦

* Compiled by KMI Media Group staff