• 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

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Abaco Systems announced the SWE440S, an upgrade which builds on the strong capability and high performance of the SWE440A, one of the most capable and flexible 3U VPX switches on the market. This fully managed Ethernet switch is designed to align with the SOSA™ Technical Standard, and also continues to be the most capable solution for customers who are not seeking alignment to this standard. By keeping power low and functionality high – the SWE440S provides greater interoperability and integration with SBCs, FPGAs, and Ethernet switches while providing cost reduction for our customers.
For applications that require 3U technology and alignment with the SOSA Technical Standard, the SWE440S, VP431, and SBC3511 provide a complete portfolio of products where interoperability has been designed in – reducing risk for customers. With SoC switch fabric at the core of the design, this is a market leading product for port flexibility with options for the type of management interface (LVCMOS or RS232), as well as offering two 10G capable SFP+ cages to the front panel for optical connectivity. 
The SWE440S comes with the latest version of OpenWare 6.4.0 and can be configured quickly and easily. Abaco carries forward the port wizard capabilities of the SWE440A so that the SWE440S can be reconfigured using OpenWare for quantities of 1G, 10G or 40G ports. This innovative solution makes the SWE440S ideal as a future-proof solution. 
Technical Overview
The NETernity™ SWE440S is a fully managed (Layer 2/3)3U VPX Ethernet switch. It is designed to align to the SOSA™ Technical Standard. For customers who are not seeking alignment to this standard, a full-feature variant of the SWE440S with more I/O is available to provide a robust insertion/upgrade solution for users of the SWE440A. Various OpenVPX profiles including MOD3-SWH-6F8U-16.4.10-n and MOD3-SWH-6F6U-16.4.1-n. s. Up to 32 10GigE or 8 40GigE ports (or combination of the two) plus up to 3 1GigE ports are supported. Rugged Levels 1 and 5 available. Supports connectivity and performance options for 40GBase-KX4, 10GBaseKR, 10GBase-KX4 and 1000BaseKX. Options for type of management interface (LVCMOS or RS232), through to two 10G capable SFP+ cages to the front panel for added flexibility. The SWE440S is equipped with the latest version of OpenWare™ Switch Management Software which brings enhanced capabilities to an already industry leading switch. 

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It is clear that the future of the military involves AI, and therefore all future video/data processing and encoding platforms should consider the implementation of accelerated AI capabilities. AI inferencing, deep learning, sensor processing, and data analytics will require the system to have a GPU powerful enough to deliver the general processing required as well as specialised cores needed to optimise AI tasks.
NVIDIA GPUs are an excellent choice for aerospace and defense applications with significant video data processing requirements including video stabilisation, image processing, terrain analysis, object tracking, and 3D visualisation of data. Support for the CUDA® framework provides the industry’s most advanced and efficient GPGPU framework, opening new doors for the embedded military environment for highly efficient, near or at real-time processing of data on edge devices.  The CUDA-X platform also provides integrations with the most popular Deep Learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe2, etc) as well as TensorRT, an optimisation layer for inference that reduces model complexity.
EIZO Rugged Solutions’ Condor GR5-RTX5000 is built using the latest embedded GPU technology from NVIDIA. The Condor GR5-RTX5000 has a rugged 3U VPX form factor card based on NVIDIA® Turing™ architecture and the NVIDIA RTX™ platform. The Condor GR5-RTX5000 meets strict data integrity requirements for mission-critical applications with uncompromised computing accuracy and reliability. The NVIDIA® Quadro RTX® 5000 GPU has 3072 CUDA parallel processing cores in the NVIDIA Turing architecture which offer a multitude of capabilities such as mesh shading, variable rate shading, texture space shading, multi-view rendering, and ultra-high performance GPGPU computing.
With 384 Tensor cores, the Condor GR5-RTX5000 delivers high AI inferencing performance. These Tensor cores are optimised pieces of hardware that are designed to both train and infer from deep learning models. These Tensor cores support numerous precision modes, including FP64, FP32, FP16, INT8, INT4, and INT1, which can enable up to 32X throughput on compatible models compared to previous generations. These AI models can be combined with NVIDIA® NGX™, which provides features such as AI-powered image upscaling denoising. The RTX5000 also contains 48 RT cores for realtime raytracing – a breakthrough in 3D rendering.
The NVIDIA GPUs used in Eizo's Condor line of rugged VPX, XMC, and PCIe solutions are ideal for a multitude of compute-intensive applications that require low-latency AI and GPGPU processing. For the most demanding applications in SWaP-constrained platforms, EIZO Rugged Solutions works closely with NVIDIA to provide the most innovative GPU technology for mission-critical applications.

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Abaco Systems announced the VP831 as the next generation of our VP889, the industry-leading 3U VPX FPGA board now with 100G Ethernet on a design which is aligned with Sensor Open Systems Architecture™ (SOSA) technical standard. This release provides customers with an upgrade path to the latest technology, providing more bandwidth and increased processing capabilities at a lower power and size, ready to perform in the harshest of environments. The VP831 is built on decades of experience with high performance digital and analog systems to deliver quality in a system customers can trust.
Upgrades to the underlying technology including embedded ARM cores within the Zynq Ultrascale+ system-on-chip,  reduce power consumption, size, and cost and bring advanced security to the forefront. The VP831 is built to perform in the harshest of environments. It comes with a fully featured open-board support package giving customers a high-level reference design example to simplify integration of application specific IP and reduce risks of a program integration. This product delivers on the promise of a migration path from the VP881 to the VP889.  By adhering to industry standards, users can upgrade their systems without a full system redesign, including future technology not yet available on the market.
Serving as a SOSA™ standard aligned variant of the VP889, the VP831 is the most capable embedded FPGA computing solution in a 3U VPX form factor, bringing flexible, powerful, rugged sensor processing and I/O technology. Military and aerospace, and commercial programs require the latest in I/O and signal processing technology at an affordable cost and with predictable timelines. With the latest FPGA chipset, configurable serial interface options and embedded multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC), the VP831 demonstrates Abaco’s commitment to delivering rugged COTS hardware thus helping customers overcome their most demanding application challenges.
Pete Thompson, VP of product management for Abaco Systems, Inc. said, “Abaco is committed to delivering a quality, off-the-shelf capability ensuring the success of mission critical applications now and throughout the lifetime of the program. Our commitment to innovation is exemplified with the VP831, which will be beneficial in a wide range of military/aerospace and commercial applications such as communications, sensor processing, radar, and electronic warfare just to name a few. We are thrilled to add another product to our portfolio which is aligned with SOSA™ technical standards to deliver our customers the solutions they need to succeed.”

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Recognising the increasing power demands of high-performance embedded systems, Elma Electronic Inc. has released a new rugged ATR chassis compliant with VITA 48.4 for liquid flow-through (LFT) cooling. The new backplane in the chassis is designed for data rates up to 10 Gbps and can handle 300 Watts per slot. This enables the system to accommodate the intense thermal management needed in high density embedded computing systems.
The new chassis offers several other design benefits including configurable front I/O connectors on a removable panel and a filtered power input connector. It is 1 ATR tall short with a rugged, bolted construction. Individual card coolant flow rates are adjustable with selectable orifices.
The backplane features eight 6U slots on a 1.2” pitch, including two VITA 62-compliant power supply slots, four 6U slots (three Payload slots with VITA 67.3c apertures in J3 & J6, and one Switch slot with VITA 67.3d aperture in J6b) as well as two 6U Payload slots populated with all J1-J6 connectors. “Clockable” guide pins are included at each slot to allow for easier keying (angle rotation), without having to deal with the removal of the backplane from the chassis.
Ram Rajan, senior vice president of engineering for Elma Electronic, noted, “Power-hungry OpenVPX modules require a thermal management solution guaranteed to keep the mission on course. This rugged ATR chassis accommodates boards that mandate VITA 48.4 LFT cooling, so our customers know their intense power requirements can be handled effectively.”
The VITA 48.4 standard establishes the mechanical design, interface control, outline and mounting requirements to ensure the mechanical intermateability of 6U VPX liquid-flow-through cooled plug-in modules within associated sub-racks.  The standard enables more efficient cooling of circuit boards and electronic components via an integral heatsink with liquid flowing through it.  The connector layout remains common with VITA 46 and quick disconnect coupling assemblies allow fluidic coupling to the chassis manifold.

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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.​