Departments
Features December 2006
Volume 8
7.......Publisher’s Notebook
Number 12
11......The Inside Track 54.....COTS Products
Main Feature VME SBCs
14
VME SBCs Climb the Compute-Density Curve
20
Multicore Processors Energize the VME SBC Realm
70..... Editorial. Under Scrutiny: The Big and The Small
Jeff Child
Frank Phelan, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing
Tech Recon GPS and Precision Timing
24
Secure Embedded GPS Technology Takes Flight
26
GPS and IRIG: Critical Tools for Precision Timing
32
For Miltary Precision Timing, VME and PMC Still Reign
Coming in January... ...See Page 69
Jeff Child
Symmetricom
Cover Story.................. Page 14
Sigrid Oseberg, Spectracom
The TH-1H Huey II, the latest version of the UH-1H Huey, has undergone a major rework that includes upgraded components and a new avionics suite with a glass cockpit. The glass cockpit takes information that was once on dial gauges and displays the information digitally on a single monitor. Shown here is the first of 24 TH-1Hs at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas that will be modified to train Air Force helicopter student pilots. Its multi-function displays allow for future upgrades and provide new aircrews with a seamless transition from the T-6 to a follow-on rotary wing aircraft such as the CV-22 and others.
System Development Graphics Boards
38
PCI Express Enables New Military Graphics Apps
42
ARINC 818 Becomes New Protocol Standard for High-Performance Video Systems
Simon Collins, Radstone Embedded Computing
Timothy Keller, Great River Technology
Technology Focus Solid State Drives
46
Flash Drives Take Over Rugged Storage
48
Solid State Drives Roundup
Ann R. Thryft
Annual Article Index 60
A Complete Guide to the Year’s Technical Feature Articles
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. ——Ant. When applied to the procurement of electronics for the 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.
Courtesy: U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt.Lance Cheung