VITA 48.8 represents an approach for cooling embedded systems using an air flow through (AFT) technique that significantly reduces the SWaP-C of deployed electronics devices.

Helen Haxell looks at how ANSI/VITA 48.8, could soon be applied to the next generation of aircraft, including Future Vertical Lift (FVL).

New cost-effective OpenHPEC LX software toolkit features ARM® (formerly Allinea) DDT debugger and profiler

Reusable spacecraft conducts successful free-flight at Edwards Air Force Base

The emergence of smaller components with more processing capability while operating at much lower power has had the counterintuitive effect of increasing thermal density, with designers expected to pack even more functionality into ever-smaller spaces.

Airborne solution combines L3Harris’s FACE conformant FliteScene® Digital Moving Map Software, Green Hills, and Pre-Validated Board-sets for Embedded Defense Applications.

Tammy Carter looks at how debugging tools are expanding the ability to produce quality and more robust software for HPEC systems.

Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions division will be displaying its latest vetronics, avionics, and naval platform products at the Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) conference at ExCel, London, UK, September 12-15, 2017.