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Abaco Proposes Takyon API to Khronos Group for Consideration as New Open Standard for High Performance Embedded Computing Application Development
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., — January 16, 2019 Abaco today announced that it had proposed its Takyon API to the Khronos® Group for consideration by an Exploratory Group that Khronos has created to gauge industry interest in a potential new, royalty-free open standard that could transform the way applications are developed on heterogeneous computers. The Khronos ® Group is an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies creating advanced...
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Abaco Wins Significant Orders for High Performance FPGA Platforms for Next Generation Airborne Radar System
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., — Dec.12, 2018 Abaco today announced that the company has won significant orders from a major US prime contractor for its 3U Xilinx® Zynq® Ultrascale+™ MPSoC Processors with 1553 interface modules. They will be deployed over the next seven years within the central processing module of an advanced, next generation airborne radar system designed to deliver enhanced warfighter survivability. Total value of the program to Abaco...
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Abaco Announces Appointment of Dualos as Authorized Distributor for Avionics Products in Test and Simulation Market
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.— December 4 2018 Abaco today announced that it has appointed Dualos LLC as an authorized distributor for Abaco’s extensive range of avionics products in the test and simulation market. Dualos has a market focus on, and far-reaching expertise in, test and simulation, and will initially serve the North American market. The company plans to expand in high growth avionics geographies. Headquartered in Tacoma, Washington, Dualos has...
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Abaco Announces Powerful New 3U VPX Video/Graphics/GPGPU Boards Based on NVIDIA Pascal GPU Technology
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.— November 27 2018 Abaco Systems today announced the rugged 3U VPX GR2 and GR4 video and graphics cards. Designed for military and defense applications as well as challenging commercial/industrial applications, both feature the newest generation NVIDIA® Pascal™ GPUs, enabling them to deliver up to 6.4 TeraFLOPS of performance and offer up to 4.5x the performance of their predecessor, Abaco’s GRA113 video/graphics board. The two...
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Buy American may be solution to cyber warfare attacks on embedded computing with Chinese spy chips
In this article for Military & Aerospace magazine, editor-in-chief John Keller talks to Abaco chief operating officer Chris Cummins about the potential dangers of the military supply chain being infiltrated by foreign powers.
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Abaco to Collaborate with EIZO Rugged Solutions to Bring Leading Edge Video Processing, HPEC Solutions to Customers in Military, Aerospace
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.— November 20 2018 Abaco Systems today announced that it had entered into a collaboration with visual technology leader EIZO® Rugged Solutions and its NVIDIA® Pascal®-based products. The collaboration will see Abaco expanding its existing NVIDIA-based board and system family by leveraging EIZO Rugged Solutions’ experience and expertise to respond to the growing military/aerospace customer requirements for advanced video...
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Perspecta Announces Partnership with Abaco Systems to Bring its 1553 Bus Defender Product to Market
Chantilly, Va.— November 15, 2018— Perspecta Inc., announced today that its innovative research arm, Perspecta Labs, has entered into a partnership with Abaco Systems, Inc. (Abaco), to bring its 1553 Bus Defender™ product to market. Warfighting systems are built for longevity and require a sophisticated means of communication, but with that comes advanced vulnerabilities. The 1553 Bus Defender solution from Perspecta Labs, developed on a...
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Abaco Wins Orders to Support Electronic Intelligence Upgrade for Range of Manned and Unmanned Aircraft
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.— November 13 2018 Abaco today announced that the company has won significant orders from a major US prime contractor that will see its 6U VPX-based RFSoC board deployed on a range of manned and unmanned aircraft as part of a comprehensive ELINT (electronic intelligence) upgrade. Total value of the order to Abaco over the next two years is expected to be in excess of $2 million. The board offers 16 ADC and DAC channels through...
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New Three-in-One Tool Helps Engineers Conquer 1553 Testing
In this article for Aviation Today, Woodrow Bellamy III looks at the challenges facing those maintaining 1553 systems, and how the BT3-USB-MON is designed to address them.
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VME: does it have a future?
In this article for Embedded Systems Engineering, Richard Kirk describes the many reasons why Abaco remains committed to the continuing development of VME solutions.
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Abaco Makes Innovative VP430 Direct RFSoC Processing System Available for Fast Shipment
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.— October 23 2018 Abaco Systems today announced that, not only has the company begun full production of its newly-announced VP430 Direct RF Processing System – first customer shipments occurred in September - but that it is actively creating inventory for those customers needing short-turn delivery before the end of the year. “We’re seeing enormous demand for the VP430 - beyond even our expectations – with numerous enquiries as...
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Cyber attack compromises trusted computing, and raises questions about industry's secure supply chain
In this article for Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine, Chris Cummins looks at the impact on defense embedded computing of the recent report by Bloomberg Businessweek.
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ISR signal processing brings performance to sensors and enables AI at the edge
In this article by John McHale, editor of Military Embedded Systems, Peter Thompson talks about what’s going on in ISR signal processing, and how the VP430 is responding to the challenge.
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Cognitive Electronic Warfare
In this article for Aviation Today, Charlotte Adams talks to Abaco’s VP of Product Management Peter Thompson about the cognitive electronic warfare technologies that will power the aircraft of tomorrow.
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Abaco Launches SRS6000 Multi-Channel Synchronous Receiver System to Significantly Reduce Time to Market for Advanced Electronic Warfare Applications
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.— September 11 2018 Abaco Systems today announced the SRS6000 Multi-channel Synchronous Receiver System. Designed for customers developing advanced, high channel density electronic warfare and SIGINT applications, it can significantly reduce time to market. The SRS6000 leverages Abaco’s leadership in FPGA hardware platforms and solutions and brings a new level of application-specific functionality, helping customers accelerate...