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The Promise of COM Express
Cost pressures continue to bedevil military programs. Years of fighting have taken a toll on equipment, while years of sequestration have made upgrading or replacing the equipment more difficult. Budget constraints require everyone involved to pay the utmost attention to life cycle costs at all levels of procurement. Step forward, rugged COM Express. Historically, it's not an architecture that the military has paid much attention to - but...
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VME obsolescence prompts thoughts of alternatives
In her regular column for Military Embedded Systems magazine, Charlotte Adams looks at the implications of a key VME component becoming obsolescent, and what the possible ways forward are for VME users. Read the whole article here .
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CUDA: An Introduction
CUDA – NVIDIA’s GPU architecture and programming API for harnessing the power of their massively parallel graphics processors – has been a de facto go-to for many performance-oriented developers since it was first released in 2006. In this article for RTC Magazine, GE's Dustin Franklin describes why that's the case. Read the full article here .
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Headed for Embedded
Embedded World, one of the industry's largest shows, took place in Nuremburg at the end of February. GE announced two significant COM Express products, including one - the rugged mCOM10-K1 - featuring NVIDIA GPU technology that delivers 326 GFLOPS of performance yet consumes 10 watts or less of power. NVIDIA blogger Jesse Clayton describes the show here .
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Critical Computing
In this article by Courtney Howard, executive editor of Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine, she talks to GE's Chris Lever who is General Manager, Embedded Systems at GE Intelligent Platforms. Read the full article here .
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GE Rugged: Opportunity beyond the Battlefield
Here’s a Q&A with the man charged with beating GE’s rugged high-rel swords into ploughshares targeting transportation, industrial, energy…and more mil/aero platforms. GE—famously intending to be #1 or #2 in all target businesses—sees great synergy in applying the experience and expertise it has developed in rugged hardware, software and services—what the company calls “GE Rugged”—in the mil/aero market and applying them much more broadly,...
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GE to Help US Air Force Define High Performance Embedded Computing Architectures of the Future
HUNTSVILLE, AL.— MARCH 24, 2015—GE’s Intelligent Platforms business (NYSE: GE) today announced that it had been awarded a contract that will see the company undertaking a six month research program to help the United States Air Force define open architectures for future generations of radar processors onboard USAF platforms. The program will be carried out at GE’s HPEC Center of Excellence in Billerica, MA. The study involves the benchmarking...
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GE to Demonstrate at GTC how Rugged GPU-Enabled Embedded Computing can Enable Moon Landing, Exploration
HUNTSVILLE, AL.— March 17, 2015— At NVIDIA’s annual GTC – GPU Technology Conference (San Jose, March 17-20) - GE’s Intelligent Platforms business will be delivering a compelling demonstration of how combining NVIDIA’s expertise in GPU technology and GE’s expertise in rugged embedded computing solutions will allow high performance computing in the most challenging, inhospitable environments – onboard a spacecraft, and on the surface of the moon...
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GE Broadens Range of Cost-Effective, High Performance Avionics Solutions with XMC for ARINC 429
HUNTSVILLE, AL.— MARCH 10, 2015— GE’s Intelligent Platforms business (NYSE: GE) today announced the RAR-XMC ARINC 429 High Density XMC Interface for deployment on many single board computers. Available in a range of configurations to match customer needs, the RAR-XMC extends still further the breadth and depth of GE’s cost-effective, high performance avionics offering with complete, integrated databus functionality for ARINC 429 and related...
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New COM Express Module from GE Brings New Levels of Performance to Applications Constrained by Power Consumption and Size
HUNTSVILLE, AL.— FEBRUARY 24, 2015— GE’s Intelligent Platforms business (NYSE: GE) today announced at Embedded World (Nuremberg, Germany – 24-26 February) the mCOM10K1 Type 10 Mini COM Express Module. Based on the NVIDIA® Tegra® K1 system-on-chip (SOC) - enabling it to deliver 326 GFLOPS of performance, well beyond the performance typically associated with Mini COM Express - it is ideal for applications where very high performance in data-...
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New Module from GE Brings Benefits of COM Express Architecture to Harsh Environments
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.— FEBRUARY 24, 2015—GE’s Intelligent Platforms business (NYSE: GE) today announced at Embedded World (Nuremberg, Germany – 24-26 February) the fully rugged bCOM6-L1700 Type 6 COM Express Module. Differentiated from ‘commodity’ COM Express modules by its high performance, extreme durability and low lifetime cost of ownership, it features the latest R-Series System-on-Chip (SoC) from AMD, providing it with not only superior...
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GE Intelligent Platforms Secures ~$100 Million Order from General Dynamics UK for British Army SCOUT SV Program
HUNTSVILLE, AL and TOWCESTER, ENGLAND.— FEBRUARY 3, 2015—GE’s Intelligent Platforms business (NYSE: GE) has announced that it has secured orders from General Dynamics UK valued at £64 million (~$100 million) to provide a range of embedded computing subsystems that will be deployed onboard the British Army’s SCOUT Specialist Vehicle (SV) platforms. The scalable, open architecture subsystems – which include Ethernet switches, gateway processors,...
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Prequalified system-level COTS takes the load
With military budgets under fire and program schedules increasingly pinched, design managers are focusing more than ever on cost. Gone are the days of gold-plated programs entailing high risk of cost overruns and schedule breaches. Suppliers are on the hot seat to deliver systems within tight cost and time constraints. READ MORE...
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New Rugged High Performance Display Computer from GE Minimizes Cost, Risk and Time-to-Market
HUNTSVILLE, AL.— JANUARY 20, 2015—GE’s Intelligent Platforms business (NYSE: GE) today announced the high performance DAQMAG2A Rugged Display Computer. Designed to minimize cost, risk and time-to-market for prime contractors, systems integrators and OEMs developing sophisticated video capture, processing and transmission applications with multiple inputs and outputs, it is qualified to the DO-160G Environmental Conditions and Test Procedures for...
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Using VITA 75 and standards-based modular design to address SWaP-C challenges
By: David Pepper, Product Manager/Technologist, GE Intelligent Platform Military Embedded Systems, December 2014 Issue As the world's armed forces look to deploy computing capability and unmanned vehicles ever closer to the battlefield edge, size, weight, and power (SWaP) are at a premium. The use of modular building blocks such as COM Express (PICMG COM.0) and/or XMC (VITA 42) – and, for packaging, the rugged small form factor (VITA 75) –...