Abaco Systems announced the GRA115V, a rugged 3U VPX video capture, processing and output board featuring the latest NVIDIA Turing™ based Quadro RTX™ 3000 GPU. This board delivers the latest GPU technologies for the rugged defence, aerospace, and industrial market sectors providing continuity of the NVIDIA GPU/GPGPU roadmap with the highest performance GPUs on the market today.
The GRA115V reduces latencies between the GPU and the video ingress/egress with the ability to interface 3G-SDI cameras and displays. It is an update to Abaco’s portfolio of class-leading NVIDIA Turing GPU devices, delivering a complete portfolio of “off-the-shelf-availability” solutions for mission-ready systems of all sizes and processing requirements.
This board delivers high performance in a low SWaP 3U VPX form factor offered in air-cooled and conduction cooled formats. The GRA115V is ideal for both video capture, processing and graphics/display processing applications such as situational awareness, object tracking and classification, and GPGPU applications including radar and video surveillance and analysis. For high-end graphics output applications, the GRA115V has the potential to reduce slot count and cost with GPU performance and four 3G/HD-SDI inputs and four 3G/HD-SDI outputs as well as offering one Display Port 1.4 output to connect to the latest displays. Additionally, this board supports Abaco’s Axis ImageFlex to simplify and accelerate image processing software development.
Pete Thompson, VP of product management for Abaco Systems, Inc. said, “Our commitment to innovation means we continually to update our portfolio of GPU products to deliver exactly what our customers need to succeed. The GRA115V addresses customer needs for increased performance while lowering SWaP constraints, reducing latencies, and allowing for interfacing with cameras and displays. Addition of this board to our portfolio proves Abaco has a comprehensive Systems strategy and places us in an industry-leading competitive position.”

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​Elma Electronic Inc. now offers the 3U VPX slimline CompacFrame, the first in a series of new development platforms designed to accelerate the design and testing of open architecture-based embedded systems.
Elma’s all-new slimline CompacFrame is the next-generation platform designed to accelerate development and testing of Plug-In Cards (PICs) aligned to the SOSA Technical Standard.
The platform features a card cage that is tilted upwards by 5° for easier access and accommodates up to four, 1-slot power and ground only VPX backplanes or up to 4 slots OpenVPX. It also enables testing of plug-in cards that are aligned to The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture™ (SOSA) initiative.
 Designed for ease of use, the new development platform features an integrated carrying handle as well as front panel interfaces for voltage LEDs, monitoring and test points as well as a reset and power switch.
Various card guide installation options are available to accommodate different plug-in card cooling schemes, including VITA 48.1 convection, VITA 48.2 conduction and the newer VITA 48.8 air flow-through (AFT) method. The unit ships standard with a 300 W ATX fixed power supply.

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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. The NATvision technology uses today’s state-of-the-art FPGA resource boards, combining the performance and real-time advantages of FPGA based algorithms with software-based image processing.

NATvision systems are based on MicroTCA (MTCA), an open system standard for embedded applications, combining flexibility and scalability with high speed data rate capabilities. Compared to other system standards MTCA provides an unbeatable freedom of scalability and flexibility for vision applications ranging from single camera systems up to multiple camera systems combined with the processing power of FPGA and/ or CPU/GPU units.

NATvision targets any application requiring high speed video or image processing or realtime manipulation, such as Vision Inspection, Analysis & Merging, Video - Public Safety.

For more information go to www.natvision.com 
Find the NATvision Whitepaper here.

The SV2-MOVIE is a peripheral slot board for PICMG® CompactPCI® Serial systems and acts as carrier for an MXM 3.0/3.1 graphics module. The SV2-MOVIE is provided with four DisplayPort front panel connectors and can accommodate either a type A (82x70mm2) or type B MXM graphics module (82x105mm2).
MXM (Mobile PCI Express Module) is an interconnect standard for GPUs created by MXM-SIG. MXM cards are mostly equipped with an AMD or NVIDIA GPU core. For best performance, the SV2-MOVIE should be operated in a CPCISerial fat pipe slot, which provides a PCIe x8 host interface. The SV2-MOVIE is equipped with a PCIe Gen3 redriver for optimum signal integrity.
For use with suitable MXM graphics modules, low profile passive heat spreaders are available, for either 4HP or 8HP front panel width. In addition, the CPCISerial rack must provide suitable forced airflow.
Examples of compatible MXM Modules:

• Aetina M3N1060-MN (NVIDIA GTX 1060 Pascal)
• Aetina M3N1070-MN (NVIDIA GTX 1070 Pascal, for CUDA operation only, no front I/O DisplayPort connectors available due to extended module dimensions)
• NVIDIA® QUADRO® P3000 (1280 CUDA cores, 3.9TFLOPS)
• NVIDIA® QUADRO® P5000 (2048 CUDA cores, 6.4TFLOPS)
  
• NVIDIA® QUADRO® RTX3000 (1920 CUDA cores, 5.3TFLOPS)
• NVIDIA® QUADRO® RTX5000 (3072 CUDA cores, 9.39TFLOPS)

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Elma Electronic Inc. now offers a core set of popular chassis and storage modules that are available for quick shipment in low quantities.  The company’s Express Products program focuses on delivering up to two units within two weeks of ordering, and four to six weeks for the remaining quantity needed.
A range of the company’s chassis products, for VPX, VME and CompactPCI architectures, as well storage modules are part of the existing program.  These units can be ordered, shipped and delivered with a quick turnaround to meet tightened design schedules and enable system engineers to begin development immediately, versus waiting on a full order delivery.  Each unit comes wired, assembled and tested.  The storage modules are available with either rotating or solid-state drives.  
 
Find the Express Lists here.
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Abaco Systems announced the release of two boards, the SBC314C single board computer and RAR15XC avionics data bus communications XMC mezzanine board, for embedded flight-certifiable applications. Previously only available as part of the FORCE2C rugged line replaceable unit, the two are now each available as separate boards.
 
The SBC314C 3U VPX single board computer, based on the NXP® QorIQ® T2081 Multicore Communications Power Architecture™ processor, is engineered in accordance with DO-254 DAL-A and features an XMC mezzanine site. It is pin-compatible with the SBC314, providing a pathway to flight certification for existing customers. The SBC314C supports a diverse I/O set that includes Gigabit Ethernet, serial communication ports, USB 2.0, SATA and GPIO.
 The SBC314C is fully supported by Power-on Built-In Test (PBIT) and Bootloader, both engineered in accordance with DO-178C DAL-A, and supports ARINC 653 compliant operating systems including VxWorks® 653, Deos™, INTEGRITY®-178 tuMP™, and LynxOS-178® for integrators needing to build complex integrated modular avionics systems.
 
The RAR15XC XMC board delivers high-density MIL-STD-1553 and ARINC 429 data bus communications as well as avionics discrete I/O. The RAR15XC is pin-compatible with the RAR15X and provides operational capability for full integration into aircraft systems. It is engineered to meet the demands of the most safety-critical applications and provides high-level functionality to reduce the complexity of the application programming.
 
 “We’re excited to bring the SBC314C and RAR15XC to our customers as individual boards,” said Pete Thompson, VP of Product Management at Abaco. “While the FORCE2C continues to see great success in flight-certifiable applications, we have customers who have asked to make them available individually for integration into their own systems. We believe this is a natural progression as work to expand our flight-certifiable portfolio of boards, board sets and systems.”

Find more information on the SBC314C here.
​Find more information on the RAR15XC here.
​Find more information on the FORCE2C here.
Whitepaper: Considering the Make vs. Buy Decision for Flight-Certifiable Embedded Electronics.

​As The Open Group® Sensor Open Standards Architecture™, or SOSA™ initiative continues to move towards completion, Elma Electronic has added two 3U backplanes to its growing family of products aligned to Snapshot 3 of the SOSA Technical Standard. Available populated with or without VITA 67.3 connectors for timing and RF connectivity, the 6-slot and 8-slot backplanes provide the foundation for complex, high speed signal processing systems.
Ram Rajan, Sr. VP of Engineering for Elma Electronic Inc., noted, “When using these new backplanes, designers can develop systems aligned to SOSA for high-performance mission-critical applications requiring lower lifecycle costs and rapid technology insertion. We see them applied to a number of applications including mission, weapons and navigation control, threat detection, surveillance and target tracking and display as well as sensor-based systems and process and environmental monitoring.”
The backplanes incorporate the latest for precision network timing plus slot profiles for SBCs, switches, radial clocks and expansion. All data paths support high-speed signals. Either used as configured or customised to meet specific system needs, the SOSA aligned backplanes offer considerable design flexibility. The extensible, modular design enables a wide range of slot counts and connection configurations.

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• EIZO’s Condor NVP2009AxX supports four field customisable video output combinations
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• The NVIDIA Quadro P2000 (chip down GP107) design features single-ended or differential signalling, H.265/H.264 hardware encode/decode capability, comes in conduction-cooled and air-cooled variants, and delivers up to 2.3 TFLOPS of processing power
  
  

EIZO Rugged Solutions has released the Condor NVP2009AxX – an XMC graphics and GPGPU card that supports various combinations of analog and digital outputs.
The new high-performance graphics card based on the NVIDIA® Quadro® P2000 GPU (chip-down GP107) supports four field customisable video output combinations of DisplayPort++, 3G-SDI, CVBS (NTSC/PAL/SECAM), and VGA (STANAG 3350/RS-170/RS-343) to provide flexibility and simplify inventory management for high-end surveillance customers.
With multiple I/O configurations, the card can support a range of video resolutions up to 4K and custom resolutions under VGA configurations. It can be factory configured to customer specifications and/or field programmed to support complex, multi-video needs after deployment.
The analog CVBS (NTSC/PAL/SECAM) and VGA (STANAG/RS-170/RS-343) video outputs can be configured to support single-ended or differential signalling. Differential signalling is a key enhancement over the traditional single-ended signalling to minimize system-induced signal noise. Supporting both signal types is critical for situations where modern and legacy interfaces coexist on a platform. 3G-SDI and DisplayPort video outputs are also available for interfacing with modern digital equipment.
The MIL-STD-810 compliant Condor NVP2009AxX supports CUDA® and OpenCL® based GPGPU computing, AI processing, deep learning, and H.265 (HEVC) / H.264 encoding & decoding. The card performs low latency computing for GPGPU applications such as unmanned systems, C5ISR, situational awareness, signal intelligence (SIGINT), and data science projects. The product is available in both, conduction-cooled and air-cooled variants, has 4 GB GDDR5 graphics memory, and delivers up to 2.3 TFLOPS of CUDA processing power. The Condor NVP2009AxX’s rear XMC pin-out is compatible with VPX systems that follow VITA 46.9 x12d+x8d+24s.

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​Abaco Systems announced the MAGIC1A, a high performance embedded computer with a modular, scalable approach to system design and architecture; based on 3U-VPX technology. The MAGIC1A improves on a legacy design and delivers the latest in graphics and computer processing in a rugged SWaP-C3 display computer, which ensures seamless integration and showcases Abaco's commitment to an extensive technology roadmap. This small form factor system provides cutting edge processing and graphics, which meets rugged computer needs for industrial and military customers.
The MAGIC1A serves as an upgrade to its predecessor (the MAGIC1) by delivering increases in power supply capability, an enhanced removable hard drive, and a more modular approach to system design allowing for upgrades over time. It provides increases in CPU and GPU performance, with the Intel Xeon E3-1505M v6 (Quad Core) @ 3 GHz base frequency, up to 4.0 GHz Turbo Boost, and the NVIDIA® Pascal ™ Quadro® P2000 GPU with 768 cores, 4GBytes of GDDR5 memory and CUDA® support, capable of delivering up to 2.3 TeraFLOPS of floating point performance. The MAGIC1A features harsh environment survivability and reliability.
The MAGIC1A provides a fully capable next generation, rugged, mission computing platform with enhanced processing, modern communication interfaces and mission proven Avionics platform IO. The MAGIC1A is assembled and integrated from the factory, then delivered to the customer ready for their software application to be installed. Its upgrades ultimately remove costly development and integration schedules while delivering high quality, fully functional hardware, allowing more time to focus on software and intellectual property, as well as avoiding the risk of system obsolescence.

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The Talon series of COTS rugged LCD monitors offers a range of sizes, screen resolutions, and feature sets for displaying highly detailed rugged applications such as those used in naval display systems, target tracking, mission/ground control centers, and airborne ISR operations. They are ready to be deployed in extreme environments with ruggedized features such as sunlight readability (optional), water resistance with IP65 (front), built-in heaters (optional), and conformal coating to protect components. They are tested for vibration, shock, altitude, and extreme temperatures to comply with MIL-STD-810 and MIL-STD-461.
Talon monitors are custom made to fit specific requirements to help customers fulfill their project goals – LED backlight customisation, projected capacitive (PCAP) and analog resistive touchscreen options, custom housing, interfaces, image enhancement technology, optical bonding, increased temperature endurance, and more are tailored to suit each rugged environment and application.     

• All Talon monitors can be customised to meet exact customer needs
• EIZO can design and manufacture a custom-built monitor to specific needs
• Every Talon rugged monitor is designed, manufactured, and tested in-house by expert engineers at EIZO’s own facilities
• Optional NVIS (Night Vision Imaging System) support
• Talon monitors have extended life cycles and comply with MIL-STD-810 and MIL-STD-461

Find a video about EIZO's rugged monitors here.