Abaco Systems announced a new version of the industry’s most flexible network management software: OpenWare V6.4. The updates in version 6.4 provide a wealth of new features including key innovations allowing for a fully flexible SFP pluggable transceiver configuration support for the GBX25 6U VME managed Ethernet switch. It will also offer NAND-less booting capabilities for the GBX25, SWE440A, SWE540A allowing greater security and faster startup times.  The innovative approach with OpenWare 6.4 delivers vital upgrades in both flexibility and security across Abaco's full range of NETernity™ layer 2/3 Ethernet switches to help customers succeed.
Abaco delivers an approach that provides the customer with as much control over configuration of the GBX25 as possible, providing for easy swaps between basebands or quantities so they are smooth and efficient by removing fixed configurations unless required. OpenWare V6.4 is more secure, capable and faster than ever – three hallmarks of market leading switch management software.
Abaco's wide range of commercial off the shelf (COTS) products benefit from OpenWare V6.4 which makes it easier to move between form factors (e.g. 3U, 6U, COTS system) without having to relearn how the switch works. Abaco helps customers succeed by making it quicker and easier to deploy an OpenWare switch into any environment, system or platform. Customers will now have access to more advanced features to develop their systems and architecture, as well as improved performance and enhanced security by mitigation of the latest Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures.
OpenWare V6.4 brings flexibility, security and performance without compromising on usability. This release furthers Abaco's commitment to release a new version of OpenWare every six months. Version 6.4 comes as the newest release since March 2020. Commitment to customer success is the reason Abaco chose to improve the user experience. The enhancements in OpenWare V6.4 usability, with access to their advanced and most used features, provides the opportunity for additional cost savings in development time.

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Abaco Systems announced the SBC6511, a rugged sixth generation 6U single board computer aligned with The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture™, or SOSA™, technical standard that integrates the newest embedded CPU and FPGA technologies for rugged compute-intensive, heavy-throughput applications and gives users a technology insertion at the data plane, expansion plane, and control plane levels. It demonstrates Abaco’s commitment to continuing innovation with the latest technology and performance standards, while aligning with relevant industry standards.
The innovative design combines the latest Intel® Xeon® E 9th Generation CPU with the Xilinx® Zynq® UltraScale+™ FPGA with advanced security capabilities (ZU7EG) to yield maximum processing performance and security in a rugged, single 6U VPX slot. The FPGA is the root of trust in the new design, giving users advanced security compared to “bolt-on” solutions found in other designs. Additionally, the SBC6511 utilises Mellanox ConnectX-5, facilitating dual 40 GigE KR4 data plane fat-pipes for increased bandwidth across the system. 
In line with Abaco’s commitment to maximising the value of customer investments and minimising long term cost of ownership, a full-feature variant of the SBC6511 is available to provide a robust insertion/upgrade solution for users of the SBC627, delivering substantially superior performance with minimal disruption.  In addition to all features of the SOSA aligned variant, the full-feature SBC6511 provides one additional XMC site, one additional DisplayPort™, and four additional USB 3.1 ports through inclusion of rear P3 and P6 connections.
The SBC6511 provides support for the latest DisplayPort™ 1.4 outputs capable of 4K @ 120 Hz or 5K @ 60 Hz, in line with the latest display standards. It also provides a dual 40 GbE data plane with RDMA, plus dual 10GbE ports on the control plane. Expansion is supported by multiple PCIe Gen 3 capable XMC sites. The SBC6511 is available in SOSA aligned or full-feature variants with expanded I/O and XMC expansion. It supports Linux, Windows and VxWorks operating systems plus Abaco’s AXIS software suite and Health Toolkit. UEFI, BIT and Slim Bootloader are available on request.

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The new N.A.T product portfolio ranges from an individual radio frequency (RF) card in the FMC form factor (NAT-FMC-SDR4)  to turnkey, field-deployable 19-inch rack-mounted systems (NAT-SDR-FLEX) with application software and sample projects. These SDR solutions can streamline the development and deployment of 4G, 5G, NBIoT, private network and phased antenna array applications, improving time-to-market while retaining flexibility.
N.A.T's new range of software defined radio (SDR) products will enable wireless network developers to speed and simplify their application development and deployment.
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Applications include:

• Wide band receivers for scanning and direction-finding
• Wide band transmitters, used for jamming
• 4G and 5G network test equipment
• Proof-of-concept setups including custom waveforms and beamforming,
• Sensing techniques for cognitive radio
• Remote radio heads (RRH) for phased antenna arrays

The optional 5G (3GPP rel.15) package enables private wireless network applications such as wideband LTE/5G base station and radio units as well as narrowband cellular IOT (cIOT). The N.A.T. turnkey systems available off-the-shelf, named NAT-SDR-FLEX, include all the hardware and software needed to build these applications with scalability from eight to 72 channels, or more using multiple systems.​

The TuffServ 640 Recorder / Server delivers one gigabyte of usable payload every second, for hours on end. Designed with a scalable architecture, the network attached storage / computer system supports a range of functions and data types.

• Onboard Network File Server   -  Mission Computer  -  Data Bus Recorder   
• Test Data Acquisition and Storage  -  Video and Imagery  -  RF Data for EW and SIGINT

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The miniRv2 Solid State Recorder / Network File Server offers low SWaP, high speed, and 64GB to 1TB+ storage. The system includes an Intel Atom CPU, a low-cost solid state removable memory module, multiplexer, high speed interfaces, Ampex ACCE Management Software, and full backwards compatibility to existing miniR700 I/O module interfaces.

• Video and Imagery  -  Audio  -  Data Bus  -  RF Signals  -  PCM  -  Ethernet

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Built for tough environments, the low-cost TuffCORD Mission Data Recorder is designed with the flexibility to meet a wide variety of operational needs. It can record all video types, be a network file server, a mission or flight test data recorder, and a mission data loader / storage system for almost any data type.

• ​Video and Imagery  -  Audio  -  Data Bus  -  RF Signals  -  PCM  -  Ethernet

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Abaco Systems announced the IPN254, a rugged fourth generation 6U OpenVPX/SOSA aligned heterogeneous multiprocessor solution that leverages Abaco’s partnership relationships. It demonstrates Abaco’s commitment to continuing innovation with the latest technology and performance standards, while aligning with relevant industry standards.
This innovative combination of the latest NVIDIA® Turing TU106 embedded/chip-down GPGPU with the latest generation Intel® Xeon® E CPU yields maximum processing performance in a rugged, single 6U VPX slot. Additionally, the IPN254 utilises Mellanox ConnectX-5, facilitating dual 40 GigE KR4 data plane fat-pipes for increased bandwidth across the system.
The IPN254 addresses the customer requirement for data plane bandwidth, as well as increased application- and mission data security. It increases overall system performance to contribute to customers’ success in data-intensive digital signal processing applications including intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), high performance airborne radar, synthetic aperture radar, and ground moving target indicators.
Technical Overview
The IPN254 features the NVIDIA® Turing TU106 embedded/chip-down GPGPU (6.4 TFLOPS peak performance) and the Intel Xeon E CPU with 64GB DDR4 with ECC, 32 MB Flash, and up to 256 GB SSD.  It includes the Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ FPGA with its advanced security features, and delivers a multi-fabric architecture on the data, control, and expansion planes. The IPN254 provides support for the latest DisplayPort™ 1.4 outputs capable of 4K @ 120 Hz or 5K @ 60 Hz, in line with the latest display standards. It also provides a dual 40 GbE data plane, plus dual 10GbE ports on the control plane, and 16 lanes of PCIe on the expansion plane enabling the IPN254 to move unprecedented amounts of data within the IPN254 itself as well as around the wider ecosystem of which it is part. The IPN254 is available as a SOSA aligned offering.

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• New NXP QorIQ T2081-based Rugged 6U VXS Single Board Computer

Abaco Systems announces the DSP221 emphasizing their commitment toward supporting customers with long term solutions.
The DSP221 is the newest NXP QorIQTM based product to join Abaco’s rugged 6U VME and VXS single board computers. It provides high speed Ethernet fabric support with a technological refresh. This product provides an improvement from a single core processor to a modern multi core power architecture processor.
The DSP221 incorporates the high performance T2081 processor and is designed specifically for harsh environments. It is ideal for a wide range of applications demanding reliability, like critical industrial, aerospace and defence applications. The DSP221 is available in air-cooled ruggedisation levels.
The DSP221 is a 6U VXS single board computer with Power ArchitectureTM AMP CPU with eight e6500 virtual cores (4 cores, dual threaded with AltiVec co-processing). It includes 8 GB DDR3 SDRAM with ECC Single Bank, 512MB NOR Flash, 32GB NAND Flash solid-state drive, 512 kB non-volatile nvSRAM, 2x independent PMC/XMC sites, 2x 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet, 2x RS232 ports, 4x single-ended GPIO (5V tolerant), and has a Baseboard Management Module (BMM). Standard software options including Uboot, PBIT, CIBIT, and VxWorks® 7 (SR0630). Linux Yocto distribution is available on request.

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​Abaco Systems is pleased to announce a new, innovative solution for customers with the EIU1000. This product is an I/O aggregator and data concentrator that combines high-density Ethernet, Avionics databus, serial, and discrete I/O connections in a compact, rugged system powered by a high-performance System-on-Chip (SoC) to reducing wiring, overall system weight and complexity.
The EIU1000 is a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solution that enables flexible, modular and scalable designs with multi-mode connectivity in a compact, rugged enclosure complementing or even replacing existing line replaceable units (LRUs) and expensive custom-designed systems. This device allows users to aggregate signals from discrete sensors and other LRUs and subsystems through one small device. The eight port Ethernet switch is ideal for systems requiring redundancy without any additional hardware.
The EIU1000 acts as a bridge between legacy subsystems and modern backbone while trending towards a reusable, modular solution. As a COTS solution, the EIU1000 avoids high development costs and schedule delays common with custom systems. Interface flexibility, physical robustness, power, weight, and space are critical considerations in aircraft and ground vehicles, and the EIU1000 is Abaco’s lowest size, weight, and power (SWaP) system to date.
The EIU-1000 is powered by Xilinx’s Zynq Ultrascale+ System-on-Chip (SoC) with quad-core ARM CPU and FPGA. It includes 4 GB DDR4 memory and 128 GB onboard SSD. Approximately 50% of the FPGA is reserved for the user. The base EIU-1000 includes an 8-port 1000BASE-T Ethernet switch, 2 dual-channel MIL-STD-1553, 4 channels of ARINC 429, 4x Full Duplex RS422/485 ports, 8 Avionics Discretes and one USB port. Additionally, two optional user-selectable Electrical Conversion Module (ECM) sites allow for a semi-custom I/O configuration including additional analog and digital I/O, serial, or avionics databuses connections.

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NATvision is a complete environment for the development and deployment of sophisticated image and video processing applications. The environment consists of a broad range of hardware products combined with selected software technologies and engineering support from N.A.T..

Designed as a machine vision processing platform, NATvision offers higher performance and lower development costs than comparable solutions, with unlimited scalability and number of cameras.
Applications include automated visual inspection in manufacturing or transportation, medical image analysis and public safety camera aggregation.

Learn more in this White Paper.