​Elma’s all-new CompacFrame is the next generation portable test platform designed to accelerate development and test of 3U OpenVPX plug-in cards. Available with backplanes up to 8-slots, the 3U card cage in the platform is tilted upwards by 5° for easier card access.

Features:

• Accommodates 6 & 8-slot SOSA aligned backplanes or any OpenVPX backplane up to 8-slots.
• Accommodates air cooled and conduction cooled payload boards.
• 3U Rear RTM Slots available.
• Integrated carry handle.
• 5º upwards tilt to card cage.
• 1400W ATX style PSU.
• Front panel voltage monitoring LED’s and test points.
• Front panel reset and power switches.
• Rear accessible VITA 46.11 compliant Shelf Manager.
• Battery for VBAT connection.

 
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​www.abaco.com/products/sbc3612dTwo new rugged computers from Abaco Systems feature the recently introduced Intel® Xeon® D-2700 processor delivering powerful 100Gb Ethernet (100GbE) capability. The HPC2812 6U VPX high performance computer (HPC) and the SBC3612D 3U VPX single board computer (SBC) are Abaco’s first 100GbE computationally intensive 6U and 3U SOSA-aligned boards. Both computers provide the building blocks needed in 6U and 3U form factors for high performance, mission-ready systems. 

The computers are deployable across a wide range of applications ranging from commercial and industrial projects to transportation and infrastructure. They are also deployable on aerospace and defence applications including ISR, radar and EO/IR. Delivering increased compute density in fewer physical slots, the computers meet demands for single slot compute density and remedies to throughput bottlenecks.

The HPC2812 and SBC3612D include the Xeon® D-2700 processor (formerly known as Ice Lake) to form the multi-processing compute engine core of Abaco’s OpenVPX high performance and 100GbE capable product portfolio. 
The 6U HPC2812 multiprocessor PIC is designed with dual (20 cores per node) Xeon D 2700 CPUs, per node 100GbE with RDMA data plane and dual PCIe Gen4 expansion planes (P2 and P5). The computer also includes 128GB DDR4 memory per node. 
The 3U SBC3612D offers a 16-core Xeon D-2700 CPU, 100GbEwith RDMA data plane and PCIe Gen4 expansion plane (x8 or x16 widths). 

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Abaco Systems' GRA116OP high-performance GPGPU delivers outstanding video and graphics output flexibility with the latest graphics processing unit (GPU) technologies. Based on the NVIDIA® Ampere™ architecture using the NVIDIA A2000™ platform, the 3U VPX VITA 65 form factor graphics output is ideal for rugged defence, aerospace and industrial applications.
The GRA116OP combines general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) computing, AI inferencing, deep learning, sensor processing and data analytics with highly flexible graphics and video I/O configurations. Its GPU node is equipped with 8 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with ECC, 2560 CUDA® cores.

The new high-performance GPGPU also includes 80 Tensor cores (3rd gen), 20 RT cores (2nd gen), and delivers up to 9.3 TFLOPS floating-point 32 performance with CUDA™ and OpenCL™ support.  Additionally, the platform provides a 128-bit wide memory bus for 192 GB/s peak memory bandwidth.
To minimise video latency, real-time video and data streaming are achieved with NVIDIA GPUDirect™ RDMA. The GPU also delivers real-time performance for encoding applications with dedicated H.265 and H.264 encode and decode engines.

Graphics/video outputs are available in four configuration options:

• x2 DisplayPort, x2 Single-Link DVI-D outputs
• x4 Single-Link DVI-D outputs
• x4 DisplayPort outputs
• x2 Single Link DVI-D, x2 3G-SDI

The GRA116OP also helps reduce bottlenecks and increase system performance with the latest Gen 4 PCIe fabric interface supporting both x8 lanes and x4 lanes and optimising expansion plane bandwidth to adjacent single board computer (SBC) boards.
Air- and conduction-cooled versions of the GRA116OP are available. The GRA116OP can consume from 35W to 95W depending on the factory configuration. Windows and Linux drivers are provided for x86 based platforms.
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Abaco Systems announced the DAGRX and SAYBRX small form factor (SFF) line replaceable unit (LRU) computers featuring Intel™ processors and flexible I/O delivering high performance in a compact package. The modular I/O approach in both rugged and lab variants empower users to select what is necessary for the application, optimising size, weight and power (SWaP). 
 
The DAGRX and SAYBRX provide modular and scalable approaches to system design and architecture. When a 3U VPX system is either too large for the given space constrictions or too costly, the new systems allow developers to focus their resources and priorities on software and intellectual property. The rugged units are designed to be deployed in harsh environments (up to IP67). Lab variants can be used for development and test as well as full deployment in moderate environments (up to IP54).  These computers address the need for ultra-compact, rugged computer systems for data and I/O processing in 8-36VDC applications in both commercial and military sectors and are ideal for use on mobile applications including industrial AGVs, off-road utility equipment (forestry, agriculture, construction, mining, etc.), railway, maritime, and avionics applications.
 
The DAGRX incorporates Intel’s smallest footprint CPU, the Intel ATOM® E3845 Quad Core 1.91 GHz, and is a best-in-class ultra-low SWaP-C solution. Power consumption depends on configuration but is typically around 13W@28VDC. The lab variant has an operating temperature range of -20°C to +60°C (baseplate), while the rugged variant has an operating temperature range of -40°C to +85°C (baseplate). DAGRX has extensive I/O flexibility and can be configured with: MIL-STD-1553, ARINC 429, GPS, serial I/O, Wi-Fi, digital I/O, 12-bit A/D, and CANbus, and up to five 1000BASE-T ports. All variants come standard with USB2.0, USB3.0, RS232. A single or multiple combination of I/O are available. Onboard memory starts at 64GB and is expandable through 2.5” SSD and mSATA options. The lab variants feature commercial style connectors for power and I/O. Rugged variants feature MIL-DTL-38999-style connectors for power and I/O. DAGRX supports Linux and Windows operating systems.
 
The SAYBRX features the Intel i7-9850HE @ 2.7 / 4.4 GHz TurboBoost and optional NVIDIA® Quadro® P2000 GPU. It offers all I/O available in the DAGRX but adds more USB, serial, DVI-I, and DisplayPort options. Expansion is via XMC/PMC, mPCIe and M.2. SAYBRX offers BIOS to support Windows, Linux, OpenGL, DirectX, NVIDIA® PhysX®, and NVIDIA 3D Vision®.
 
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EIZO Rugged Solutions Inc., a provider of ruggedised graphics and video products, has introduced the Condor XR1 6U VPX Series – an OpenVPX™ 6U form factor high-performance computer and GPGPU processing card based on the NVIDIA® Turing™ architecture using either the NVIDIA RTX5000™ or NVIDIA RTX3000™ platforms.
The Condor XR1 6U VPX Series offers High-Performance Embedded Computing Systems with a solution that delivers multi-card performance, resulting in reduced system SWaP and increased compute capabilities. When utilising the RTX5000 (TU104) GPU, the card offers up to 6150 CUDA cores, 768 Tensor cores, 96 RT cores, and provides up to 18.98 TFLOP floating-point 32 performance with CUDA™ and OpenCL™ support.

With two NVIDIA RTX GPU variants available, the Condor XR1 6U VPX Series provides compute flexibility for systems that are power or thermal-sensitive and allows for future program upgrades. The cards support up to eight DisplayPort++ video outputs and has dedicated H.264/H.265 (HEVC) encoding/decoding engines. 
Each GPU can be individually configured to route to various endpoint configurations, as each PCI-e switch also enables mating IO modules to communicate to the CPU or directly to the GPUs themselves via NVIDIA RDMA.
The NVIDIA RTX platform has increased performance in AI and deep learning and double the parallel processing capabilities from previous generations. This solution is ideal for sensor-intensive applications such as unmanned systems, airborne radar, Signal Intelligence (SIG-INT), Electronic Warfare (EW), and Digital Signal Processing (DSP). 

This product is available in conduction cooled or air-cooled formats and supports PCI Express Gen 3.0 (16, 8 or 4 lane). This card is tested to MIL-STD-810 standards and is offered in either OpenVPX VITA 65 or SOSA-aligned configurations. 

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EIZO Rugged Solutions Inc., a provider of ruggedised graphics and video products, has introduced the Condor GR5S-RTX5000 – a rugged OpenVPX 3U form factor graphics & GPGPU card that hosts the discrete NVIDIA® Quadro RTX™ 5000 GPU (TU104). This card configuration is aligned with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture™ (SOSA) technical standard.
Powered by NVIDIA Turing™ architecture, the Condor GR5S-RTX5000 delivers exceptional GPGPU processing with AI capabilities for rapid detection and response to threats. The new board is designed for latency-sensitive applications supporting ISR, Degraded Visual Environments (DVE), Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Electronic Warfare (EW), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Data Science projects.  

The Condor GR5S-RTX5000 offers up to 9.4 TFLOPs of FP32 floating-point performance with 16 GB GDDR6 memory, 48 RT Ray-Tracing Cores for real-time rendering of photorealistic objects, and 384 Tensor Cores for deep learning training. With 3072 CUDA cores for parallel processing, this GPGPU card also supports advanced shading technologies such as Mesh, Texture, and Variable Rate Shading. This product is being offered supporting SOSA x8 and x16 PCIe configurations and non-SOSA configurations supporting DisplayPort/DVI video outputs. 
The rugged Condor GR5S-RTX5000 delivers real-time throughput for encoding applications with a dedicated H.264 and H.265 encode engine (NVENC) and a dedicated decoding core for playback (NVDEC), supporting an unrestricted number of encoding sessions with a performance throughput, verified in house, of 24x concurrent 1080p30 sessions at default power settings. This product meets strict data integrity requirements for mission-critical applications with uncompromised computing accuracy and reliability.
Like all of EIZO Rugged Solutions’ VPX cards, the Condor GR5S-RTX5000 is MIL-STD-810 compliant and is designed to meet military and aerospace specifications for temperature, shock, vibration, and power.

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Abaco Systems announced the PMC523 16-port serial controller and the SPR518 PCI Express ® XMC carrier card. Both provide innovative upgrade paths to protect customers from obsolescence.  

The PMC523 is a flexible solution and a technology insertion which integrates multiple serial I/O channels onto single board computers (SBCs) with PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) sites. Its efficient design packages 16 serial channels onto a single PMC. Additionally, this serial controller utilises dual octal UARTs to increase overall performance through reduction of programmed I/O operations. This provides an evolutionary path for enhanced software and ultimately protects customers who have already designed systems utilizing the previous generation PMC423.
The PMC523 is a 16 port RS-422 serial controller with a PCI bus 2.3 target interface compliant up to a 33 MHz clock with a 32-bit bus. The ports are accessible via a front 68-pin high-density connector or rear I/O via P14. Flow control is either automatic RTS/CTS or DTR/DSR. Xon/Xoff software flow control is automatic as well.
 
The SPR518 provides an upgrade path for customers by offering a replacement for the existing SPR418A. This card is a short form factor PCI Express (PCIe®) carrier for XMC modules which allows for use with traditional PCs. The PCIe interface provides for unimpeded data transfers at the full rate supported by the mezzanine card and is enhanced by a PCIe Gen3 Redriver. This enhancement allows for safe operation of XMC modules on PCIe mainboards, where previously the SPR418A could only support Gen2.
  
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Abaco Systems announced the production release of five products designed to align to the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA™) technical standard demonstrating Abaco’s position as the market leader in 3U and 6U VPX boards and board sets.  The VP431, SWE440S, SBC6511, VP831 and IPN254 align to the SOSA standard and support DOD goals for technology insertion, cost reduction, and faster time to deployment.
Abaco is an active member of the Open Group steering group and was proud to be a part of creating the Technical Standard for SOSA Reference Architecture, Edition 1.0, announced in September. 
 
  The five production releases include:

• The VP431 is a 3U VPX board featuring the latest third generation Xilinx® RF System-on-Chip (RFSoC) containing data converters integrated directly into the Zynq® Ultrascale+™ MPSoC  with 40/100Gb Ethernet connections, an optional optical interface, and other general-purpose I/O. Supporting up to eight 14-bit ADCs sampling up to 5.0GSPS, eight 14-bit DACs sampling at up to 10.0GSPS, a user programmable FPGA fabric, and a multi-core Zynq ARM® processing subsystem.  
• The SWE440S is a fully managed 3U VPX Ethernet switch designed to meet the most demanding requirements for network switching in tactical applications. By offering configuration options for two SOSA profiles as well as VITA/OpenVPX 32U through to 8F configurations, it is one of the most capable and flexible switches on the market, and supports 1G, 10G and 40G Ethernet.  
• The SBC6511 single board computer features an innovative design that combines the Intel® Xeon® E 9th Generation CPU with the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+™ FPGA with advanced security capabilities to yield maximum I/O handling, processing performance, and security in a rugged, single 6U VPX slot. It is also available in an OpenVPX variant.  
• The IPN254 is Abaco’s fourth generation 6U multiprocessor solution. By combining the latest NVIDIA® Turing™ GPU with the 9th generation Intel Xeon E CPU, the IPN254 enables maximum processing performance in a rugged, single VPX slot. It delivers the highest available bandwidth between its major components, making it an ideal solution for data-intensive applications in the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) domain. It is also available in an OpenVPX variant.  
• The VP831 is a 3U VPX FPGA carrier board featuring a dual FPGA design supporting RF and signal processing in a single slot. It includes a powerful Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ FPGA and Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, to deliver maximum performance and programmability along with critical security features. The VP831 can be combined with any of Abaco’s FPGA Mezzanine Cards (FMC) A/D and D/A modules for complete RF conversion and processing.

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Abaco Systems announced OpenWare V6.6, which delivers an innovative networking solution with additional features and security patches on the flexible networking management software. This release delivers on the promise to provide regular updates to OpenWare every six months and shows Abaco's commitment to taking security seriously by including the latest CVEs, while also providing customer focused new features and usability enhancements.
 
OpenWare V6.6 features Network Address Translation support on the SWE450A, which allows the end user to route between networks. This provides the customer with the ability to deploy the switch in more complex network architectures while avoiding the need for an additional hardware. Version 6.6 also offers ERPS Redundant Ring Support, which creates redundancy in a network built with multiple switches, so that if one switch fails the others can bypass the failed switch to keep the network alive. Security continues to be a priority with several under-the-hood updates and patches implemented for known CVEs.
 
Abaco continues to be a market leader in the rugged embedded switch market by releasing new versions of the in-house switch management software on a regular schedule. This feature development  enables customers to succeed by tailoring OpenWare to their needs. Customers are able to solve their networking challenges with increased speed and effectiveness, resulting in improved usability. It also allows inexperienced users to readily get up to speed with a configured OpenWare Switch that has been improved by increasing coverage of the features available. OpenWare V6.6 is available for a wide range of NETernity products, including 3U VPX products like the SWE440S and the RES3000 COTS system.

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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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