The Digital Beachhead™ from Curtiss Wright Defense Solutions combines an Ethernet switch with a powerful Vehicle Management Computer to provide essential network services to ground vehicles.

Housed in a small and lightweight rugged chassis, the Digital Beachhead provides 16 ports of tri-speed 10/100/ 1000 Base-T Ethernet with a variety of flexible network switching features such as VLANs, multicast, and Quality of Service.

The Digital Beachhead also features a multi-core ARM based Vetronics computer, with flexible interfaces to monitor and control essential vehicle systems. The Digital Beachhead truly simplifies the network modernization of today's combat vehicles.

RTI Connext Micro

RTI’s Connext™ Micro provides a small-footprint modular messaging solution for resource-limited devices that have minimal memory, Flash, CPU power or no operating system. By abstracting out low-level networking and communication details and providing a flexible integration framework, Connext Micro minimizes the amount of device or application specific code that has to be created and reduces development costs.

Additionally, Connext Micro is designed to become a certifiable component in high-assurance systems. Connext Micro satisfies the demanding real-time performance requirements, stringent resource constraints, and certification processes required by avionics and medical systems.

Next-generation DRFM Platform

The next generation DRFM platform from Mistral is a rugged system consisting of RF Up/Down Conversion using modulator and demodulator that provides combined data acquisition and processing on a single platform. The rugged, compact form factor DRFM platform is a conduction-cooled module that can be plugged into any conduction-cooled or air-cooled LRU and be operational instantaneously.

The DRFM platform is ideal for use in ECM, carrier processing/echo generation and decoy application and provides users the flexibility to configure the system based on their applications.

Features

• RF Up/Down Conversion
• Virtex5 SX FPGA for on-board processing and custom programming
• RF Input Frequency range: 1500 - 2500 MHZ
• RF Output Signal range : 1500 - 2500MHz
• LVTTL, GPIO signal connector
• RS232 and Ethernet for external interfaces (only on processor-based DRFM platform)
• Rugged conduction-cooled module
• Operation temperature: -40°C to +60°C
• Power supply: ±5V.  

Multi-channel Data Acquisition and Processing System: Case Study from Mistral

This case study is a showcase of Mistral’s capability in the design, system integration and deployment of a network-based high-performance multi-channel Data Acquisition and Processing System intended for naval applications. The customer approached Mistral to develop a multi-channel Data Acquisition and processing System capable of providing high configurability, high accuracy data acquisition. The system had to be designed with a modular approach to make the system compatible for use in various naval projects. The design also needed to achieve precision synchronization of sampling clocks in the networked system.

• Data Acquisition system on a customized backplane supporting
• 128/256 channel system
• Synchronization of all the channels
• Transmitter system on a customized backplane to act as a data simulator
• Control Interface - Run time re-configurable data acquisition receiver and transmitter systems
• Multiple System Synchronization
• System supporting high throughput ports for data transfer
• System needed to operate in an Air tight environment.

Skyquest High Definition VMS for Airborne Applications: Application Note from Curtiss Wright

The Skyquest High Definition Video Management System (VMS) is designed to control, distribute, record and display video for optimal surveillance mission performance. The proven and flexible Skyquest HD VMS is an ideal fit for any aircraft requiring a fully integrated surveillance suite. With HD sensors now becoming standard in the latest EO turrets installed on aircraft, its logical that air crew will want a mission system that can exploit this latest technology to
its fullest.

The HD VMS uses are numerous and can be applied to applications such as surveillance, search and rescue, law enforcement, military and more. In all these applications, the mission will require high quality video information displayed in real time to the observer and others in the aircraft while also being able to record video for evidential purposes, and possibly sending the imagery via a downlink to colleagues on the ground.

Building a Smarter Smart Grid: Counteracting Cyber-Threats in Energy Distribution: Whitepaper from Windriver

Technology exists today to help energy providers to retrofit and modernize existing grids and to design smarter energy grids with even more built-in intelligence. Unfortunately, the complexity and sheer number of smart devices required to connect seamlessly and provide the intelligence that makes the grid smarter also make energy systems vulnerable to sabotage by hackers and malware.

As a leading provider of secure embedded technology solutions to the energy industry, Wind River® is actively engaged with energy production and distribution operators worldwide to help meet these critical challenges. This paper explores the technology products and practices that are being deployed to address vulnerabilities in a more interconnected energy grid. It also sets forth a six-point process for enhancing security in devices and applications on which the delivery of energy is increasingly reliant.

NPOL Industry Meet - NIM 2012

On the eve of their diamond jubilee celebrations,
Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL) organized an industry meet, NIM 2012 on 13th December, 2012 at Kochi in Kerala.

The industry meet served as a forum to interact with the scientists at NPOL and understand the present and future requirements of NPOL through presentations and discussions. The meet was attended by over 110 delegates from various public and private sector companies and autonomous bodies.

Mistral was one of the sponsors of the Industry Meet and showcased its capabilities in the areas of Radar/Sonar, which includes Data Acquisition and Distribution, Radar Video Acquisition & Display and Combat Information.

ANSYS, Inc. Acquires Esterel Technologies S.A.

Esterel Technologies S.A., one of Mistral’s technology partners in the Defense domain was recently acquired by ANSYS, Inc. a global innovator of simulation. The acquisition of Esterel complements ANSYS® software solutions by extending the ANSYS Simulation Driven Product Development™ vision to encompass both hardware and software systems.

The complementary nature of software and hardware simulation solutions offered by the two companies will facilitate delivering of comprehensive, high fidelity, world-class system simulation technologies for customers. Customers stand to benefit from reduced reliance on costly physical testing and streamlining of their system engineering processes to alleviating their product development efforts. The solutions offered will meet the stringent requirements of upcoming certification standards, such as ISO 26262 in Automotive or DO-178C in Aerospace.