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Making COTS great again
In this article for Military Embedded Systems magazine, Charlotte Adams looks at what COTS was supposed to do - speeding availability and reducing the cost of the technology needed by the military - and how it is once again fulfilling its original promise.
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VITA technologies round table
Abaco’s Richard Kirk and Haydn Nelson join this industry round table , organized by EE Catalog, to discuss what’s going on with the technologies that underpin so many major military programs.
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Electronic warfare systems and open standards at AOC show
In this article for Military Embedded Systems magazine, editor-in-chief John McHale talks to Abaco’s Haydn Nelson, who is Director, Product Management, Advanced RF and DSP. They discuss electronic warfare (EW) technology, the impact of open standards in the EW community, software defined radios (SDRs), and the buzz on the floor the Association of Old Crows (AOC) Annual Meeting Association of the U.S. Army’s (AUSA) last month in Washington.
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Abaco Appoints CoreEL Technologies as Exclusive Distributor for India
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.—November 21, 2017 Abaco Systems today announced that it has appointed CoreEL Technologies as its exclusive distributor in India, effective November 1. CoreEL will market, sell and support the full range of Abaco’s products, including single board computers; graphics processors; network switches; RF, DSP and FPGA products; and mission ready systems. More than 1.3 million Indians work in the country’s military/aerospace industry,...
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Minimizing Latency in Mission-Critical Video Processing Applications
In this article for Embedded Systems Engineering, Haydn Nelson - Director of Product Management for RF and DSP at Abaco – looks at how modularity and the use of FPGAs can enable latency to be minimized in advanced video applications while also allowing the design of systems that are both flexible and easy to upgrade in response to changing requirements.
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Meet us at AOC
November 28-30 we'll be at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC at the 54th Annual AOC International Symposium and Convention - an annual event hosted by the Association of Old Crows and attended by leaders in electronic warfare technologies. Come by our stand (Booth 230) to discuss the benefits of a COTS platform approach to building state of the art electronic warfare systems – and the challenges involved in turning them...
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Abaco Announces Modular Solution to Ease Development, Upgrade of Camera Link-based Systems
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.— October 17, 2017 Abaco Systems today announced the FMC422 Dual Camera Link FMC (FPGA mezzanine card). VITA 57.1 FMC compliant, it is designed for demanding, mission critical video processing applications that require high performance capture or output together with FPGA processing. The FMC422 is ideally suited for high bandwidth deployments such as degraded visual environments, active protection systems and autonomous vehicles...
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Abaco Systems Names Rich Sorelle Chief Executive Officer
HUNTSVILLE, AL – October 2, 2017 – Abaco Systems (“Abaco”), a provider of leading-edge rugged, embedded mission-ready systems, today announced the appointment of Rich Sorelle as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Abaco is a portfolio company of Veritas Capital. “The embedded computing market is at a vibrant and exciting stage,” said Mr. Sorelle. “Over the past two years, Abaco has established itself as a leading, independent...
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Image-processing programming: Hope for non-nerds?
In this article for Military Embedded Systems, Charlotte Adams looks at what’s involved in designing and delivering the vision systems that are becoming an integral part of today’s military platforms, and the role middleware can play in easing their development.
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Abaco Announces First Small Form Factor Mission Ready Systems Based on Innovative Lightning Platform
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.— SEPTEMBER 26 2017 — Abaco Systems today announced the MCS1000 and GVC2000 , the first two mission ready systems to be based on the company’s innovative Lightning platform. The rugged, small form factor MCS1000 mission ready mission- or display computer is ideal for I/O-rich applications where there are multiple target platforms or unique interfaces required on the computing solution. The system features the Intel® Xeon® E3...
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Abaco Announces Innovative ‘Lightning’ Mission Ready Systems Platform to Substantially Reduce Cost, Lead Time
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.— SEPTEMBER 12 2017 — Abaco Systems today announced the unique Lightning platform that is designed to substantially reduce the cost and time involved in developing leading edge rugged embedded mission ready systems. Lightning-based systems are designed to be delivered to precise customer requirements in weeks rather than months with a high degree of I/O customization, resulting in significant cost and time savings. Systems based...
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Abaco Introduces Low Price, Easy to Use, Rugged Monitor and Analysis Tool for MIL-STD-1553 Users
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.— September 5, 2017 Abaco Systems today introduced the innovative BT3-USB-MON Bus Monitor that is designed to make the monitoring and analysis of MIL-STD-1553 signals significantly easier, more convenient and more affordable. It is designed to help users easily visualize and record 1553 bus traffic for development, testing, trouble-shooting and debugging. Uniquely at its price point, it includes built-in scope outputs, further...
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AUTOTESTCON here we come
Our newest avionics product (official launch September 5) is making its debut on the stand of our partner TEVET at AUTOTESTCON (Schaumburg, Illinois: September 11-14) – and we’ll be there with them. AUTOTESTCON is described as the world’s premier conference that brings together the military/aerospace automatic test industry and government/military acquirers and users to share new technologies, discuss innovative applications, and exhibit...
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We'll be at GTC Europe!
October 10 – 12 sees us at the Internationales Congress Center in Munich, Germany at GTC Europe – an annual event hosted by our friends at NVIDIA and attended by anyone and everyone who is involved in the exciting world of AI and Deep Learning. One of the most exciting things that AI and Deep Learning can enable is autonomy – such as self-driving cars. On our stand, we’ll be showing a demonstration of how Abaco can uniquely deliver autonomous...
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Come and join us in Nova Scotia!
We’ll be at DEFSEC Atlantic 2017 (Cunard Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: September 5 – 7) with our partner J-Squared , demonstrating how we’re working together to deliver the industry’s most advanced rugged embedded computing solutions. DEFSEC is one of Canada's premiere aerospace, defense, security and marine exhibitions and gives attendees the opportunity to network with the major suppliers to Canada's $30 billion+ ongoing defense...