Get the latest news from the Embedded Computing leader for Military, Aerospace, Commercial and Industrial markets. http://www.cwcembedded.com HIGH WYCOMBE, UK – March 2, 2010 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, VXS, and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced the availability of a higher performance, faster version of its ADC510 FPGA Mezzanine Card module. Now, featuring two enhanced Texas Instruments ADC devices, the ADC510 delivers sampling performance increased to 550MSPS with analog bandwidths >1.7GHz. Available in both air-cooled and conduction-cooled rugged versions, the ADC510 is aimed at DSP applications such as Signal Intelligence, Electronic Counter Measures, and Radar. The ADC510 makes it easier and faster for system developers to integrate FPGAs into their embedded system designs. “Ideally suited to SDR and SigInt applications, the faster ADC510 illustrates Curtiss-Wright Control’s continued leadership in practical open standard rugged solutions such as FMC,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “FMCs enable our customers to have access to new technology with simplified upgrades paths for future solutions which protects their investment.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/742.html LEESBURG, VA – January 22, 2010, -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, OpenVPX™, VXS and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market, has announced the availability of an INTEGRITY® real-time operating system board support package from Green Hills Software for the SVME/DMV-184 and the VPX6-185 PowerPC 8640 single board computers. The new BSP enables system developers to build complete embedded hardware/software solutions based on Green Hills’ certified safe and secure INTEGRITY RTOS for high-performance modular computing and integrated subsystem applications in the defense and aerospace markets. “Like Curtiss-Wright Controls, Green Hills Software is a recognized leader in providing advanced computing solutions for the defense market,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “By offering support for INTEGRITY on our SVME/DMV-184 and VPX6-185 single-board computers we are able to satisfy our customers’ growing requirements for a proven, certified operating system that addresses both security and safety. We are excited about expanding our product support with Green Hills Software.” “For customers developing safe, secure electronic systems for aerospace and defense, Green Hills Software’s proven and widely popular INTEGRITY real-time operating system complements Curtiss-Wright Controls’ high-performance rugged board and subsystem solutions,” stated Dan Mender, vice president of business development, Green Hills Software. “The combination of our products delivers a winning platform that addresses critical design challenges our customers face to increase system security and availability while reducing product time to market.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/734.html ALAMEDA, Calif. and LEESBURG, VA – January 19, 2010 – Wind River and Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing today announced the immediate availability of Wind River's VxWorks DO-178B Platform, designed to meet the stringent safety certification requirements of the aerospace and defense industry. The new release of the platform includes complete DO-178B Level A certification evidence for a reference board support package for the SVME/DMV-183 single board computer and additional processor support for Intel™ Core™ 2 Duo IA-32 and Power Architecture® e600 cores. This makes it easier for customers to migrate to new higher performance hardware and reduce their time-to-market. To ease and speed the development of DO-178B Platform COTS solutions, Wind River offers a pre-packaged solution that includes a BSP with FAA DO-178B certification evidence for the SVME/DMV-183 single board computer. With many customers already leveraging Curtiss-Wright Controls’ boards, this solution offers a pre-configured combination that saves time and money. “We are excited to be partnering with Wind River in their development of the first VxWorks DO-178B Platform board support package for our SVME/DMV-183 single board computer,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “This is a great step forward in our commitment to provide our mutual aerospace and defense customers with a proven off-the-shelf solution for safety critical applications, which customers have long desired to significantly reduce their development time and costs.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/729.html SAN DIEGO, CA – January 7, 2010 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, OpenVPX™, VXS and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense market, has introduced the SVME/DMV-1905, its first high performance VME64x single board computer utilizing the new dual-core Intel® Core™ i7-610E processor. The SVME/DMV-1905 brings the low-power, high-performance advantages of Intel architecture to demanding harsh environment compute applications. “The combination of Intel Core i7 processor performance, along with Intels commitment to long life-cycle supply, has propelled us to choose Intel as the best technology choice for our signal processing product line,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “We look forward to many future product generations that will harness Intels multi-core processor roadmap.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/728.html LEESBURG, VA – January 7, 2010 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, OpenVPX™, VXS and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense market, has introduced its first high performance VME64x DSP engine utilizing the new dual-core Intel® Core™ i7-610E processor. The new CHAMP-AV5 is Curtiss-Wright Controls first DSP engine with the new Intel® Core™ i7 processor, representing an industry milestone in bringing the low-power/high-performance advantages of Intel processor technology to demanding military signal processing applications. “The combination of Intel Core i7 processor performance, along with Intels commitment to long life-cycle supply, has propelled us to choose Intel as the best technology choice for our signal processing product line,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “We look forward to many future product generations that will harness Intels multi-core processor roadmap.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/726.html LEESBURG, VA – January 7, 2010 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, OpenVPX™, VXS and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense market, today announced support for the Wind River® VxWorks™ 6.8 operating system on its new CHAMP-AV5 VME64x DSP engine. The CHAMP-AV5, Curtiss-Wright Controls first DSP engine utilizing the new dual-core Intel® Core™ i7-610E processor, is also the first Curtiss-Wright Controls DSP board to support VxWorks symmetric multi-processing capabilities. VxWorks™ 6.8 enables system designers developing applications using SMP to more easily harness the power of a multi-core processor. Furthermore, SMP provides software designs with built-in scalability to support future processors that feature even greater numbers of cores. “We are pleased that our customers will be able to continue to use their preferred real-time operating system as we migrate our DSP products to multi-core Intel processors. The new SMP capability in VxWorks 6.8 is the key enabler to effectively develop high performance and scalable software,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “Wind River and Curtiss-Wright Controls have partnered to deliver rugged, embedded DSP solutions that will speed up the development and integration of advanced signal processing systems,” said Marc Brown, vice president of marketing and strategy, VxWorks Product Division, Wind River. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/727.html OTTAWA, ONTARIO –January 6, 2010 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, OpenVPX™, VXS, and CompactPCI products for the rugged embedded and rugged deployed aerospace and defense markets, has introduced the SVME/DMV-186, its latest rugged 6U VME64 single board computer. The SVME/DMV-186, powered by Freescales QorIQ P4080 family of higher performance processors, provides up to eight Power Architecture™ processor cores and associated high-performance data-path acceleration logic, network and peripheral bus interfaces with superior MIPS/Watt performance. The SVME/DMV-186 augments the performance and advanced I/O capabilities of Freescales QorIQ™ P4080 processor with an extensive I/O complement to provide a highly capable 6U VME64 SBC. Joining its predecessors, the 6U VPX VPX6-187, and the 3U VPX VPX3-129, the SVME/DMV-186 is the third member of Curtiss-Wright Controls family of QorIQ P4080-based SBCs. The SVME/DMV-186 is ideal for a wide range of rugged embedded military applications including tactical aircraft, armored vehicles or rugged naval systems. “The SVME/DMV-186 expands our rugged Power™ Architecture-based 6U VME product portfolio,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “It provides our highest MIPS/Watt performance SBC for our VME customers.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/724.html OTTAWA, ONTARIO –January 6, 2010 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, OpenVPX™, VXS, and CompactPCI products for the rugged embedded and rugged deployed aerospace and defense markets, has introduced the new 3U VPX VPX3-216 ExpressReach™ carrier card to speed and ease the integration of XMC mezzanine cards into embedded systems designed to be complaint with the OpenVPX™ standard. “The VPX3-216 ExpressReach switchless carrier further expands our unmatched portfolio of VPX solutions,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “The VPX3-216 provides a simple solution for system designs that require additional mezzanine modules.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/725.html CHARLOTTE, N.C. - December 21, 2009 – Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc. announced today that it has acquired Skyquest Systems Ltd, for approximately £10 million. Skyquest is a leading supplier of aircraft video displays, recorders and video/radar converters, for surveillance aircraft applications in the aerospace and defense markets. The business will be organized under Curtiss-Wright Controls’ Embedded Computing group. “The addition of Skyquest Systems raises Curtiss-Wright’s leadership position in the aerospace and defense embedded computing market,” said David Adams, co-chief operating officer of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. “The addition of Skyquest’s airborne video solutions to our product family will expand our systems offering for customers looking for a total solutions provider for their mission critical applications. Furthermore, Curtiss-Wright Controls will be able to grow the Skyquest brand more quickly by providing it access to many new markets.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/720.html OTTAWA, ONTARIO –December 15, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, VXS, and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market, has introduced the VPX3-129, a new rugged Power™ Architecture-based 3U VPX single board computer. This powerful, small form-factor SBC augments the performance and advanced I/O capabilities of Freescale’s QorIQ™ P4080 eight-core communications processor with an extensive I/O complement to provide a highly capable 3U VPX SBC. Joining its predecessor, the VPX6-187, the VPX3-129 is the second member of Curtiss-Wright Controls’ family of QorIQ P4080-based SBCs. Designed to support the new OpenVPX™ system interoperability specification for VPX, the VPX3-129 is ideal for a wide range of embedded commercial and military/aerospace applications including tactical aircraft, armored vehicles or rugged naval systems. “The VPX3-129 expands our high performance Power™ Architecture-based 3U VPX product portfolio, ” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “Designed to be OpenVPX Ready, this small form factor, high bandwidth card is ideal for high performance SWaP constrained rugged applications.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/716.html DAYTON, OH – November 17, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed subsystems for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced the new Vortex SDRxL, a fully-featured off-the-shelf four channel Serial FPDP data recorder system for demanding sensor-to-processor streaming data applications. The Vortex SDRxL combines a uniquely equipped 3U rackmount controller with a reliable, scalable storage subsystem. This data logger can record and store up to four channels of sFPDP data at rates up to 960MB/s. The Vortex SDRxL speeds the integration of high-speed data recording capabilities into subsystems designed for instrumentation recording, mission recording, and SIGINT/ELINT recording and storage applications. “The Vortex SDRxL delivers up to 4 channels of simultaneous data recording and storage,” said David Dietz, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems. “Our Vortex data recorder’s proven design and advanced technology, combines with a simple yet powerful GUI, enabling system integrators to reduce their risk and cut their time-to-market.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/706.html LEESBURG, VA – November 12, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products and systems for the aerospace and defense market has announced the appointment of Steve Edwards to the position of chief technology officer. In his new role, Mr. Edwards reports directly to Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “We are very pleased to name Steve Edwards chief technology officer,” said Ms. Patterson. “Steve has demonstrated outstanding technical leadership and teamwork, and is truly focused on shaping the future of Embedded Computing.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/705.html LEESBURG, VA – November 3, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense market, has announced that it has commenced a significant expansion of its Ottawa, Ontario facility. The construction project includes an addition to the existing building and upgrades to the existing plant and office facilities infrastructure to accommodate the company’s expanding work force. Construction is currently underway and the expansion is scheduled for completion in March, 2010. “With Curtiss-Wright Controls’ continued growth and success in our target market of rugged deployed defense COTS embedded electronics and systems, the company recognize the need to invest and expand our existing plant, engineering capabilities, and manufacturing capabilities to better serve our customers and their increasing demand for our technologies and products,” said Lynn Patterson, general manager and vice president of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/703.html DAYTON, OH – October 28, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed subsystems for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced the new Vortex SDRxE, a fixed-featured off-the-shelf multi-channel Gigabit Ethernet streaming data recorder system for demanding sensor-to-processor streaming data applications. The Vortex SDRxE combines a uniquely equipped 3U controller with a reliable, scalable storage subsystem. This rack mountable data recorder can record up to four channels of GbE data at 125MB/s per channel. The Vortex SDRxE speeds the integration of high-speed data recording and data logging capabilities into subsystems designed for instrumentation recording, mission recording, and SIGINT/ELINT recording applications. “The Vortex SDRxE delivers up to 4 channels of simultaneous GbE data recording and storage,” said David Dietz, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems. “With our proven design and advanced Vortex technology and simple yet powerful GUI, system integrators reduce their risk and cut their time-to-market. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/702.html LEESBURG, VA – October 19, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed off-the-shelf VME, VPX, VXS and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced that it intends to support the OpenVPX™ interoperability specification across its range of VPX single board computers, DSP engines, network interfaces, storage solutions and other board and sub-system platforms. “Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has taken a leadership position in the development of the VPX and OpenVPX specifications and we plan to offer the market the most comprehensive mix of board and subsystem solutions based on these groundbreaking new standards,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “Our VPX6-185 was the industry's first VPX SBC, and our CHAMP-AV6 was the industry’s first 6U VPX DSP engine. We were also the first to publically demonstrate a working VPX system and a working OpenVPX system. We will continue this leadership with support for OpenVPX, many of our existing products today are ‘OpenVPX Ready’.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/696.html SAN DIEGO, CA – October 19, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, VXS and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense market, has announced the availability of new board support packages for Wind River’s VxWorks 6.7 real-time operating system on its family of Intel® Core™2 Duo L7400, Intel® Core™2 Duo T9400, and Intel® Core™2 Duo SP9300-based single board computers. The new VxWorks version 6.7 BSPs, designed for use on Curtiss-Wright Controls’ rugged CompactPCI, VME and VPX SBCs - including the SCP/DCP-1201, SVME/DMV-1901, VPX6-1952, and VPX3-1252, are optimized for multi-core performance. “Our customers are increasingly turning to multi-core processing for their real-time computing application – both for increased performance and to reduce heat dissipation,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “These new BSPs bring Wind River’s latest version of VxWorks, with enhanced support for multi-core platforms to our family of Intel-based single board computers for rugged deployed systems.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/695.html MILCOM 2009 - BOSTON, MA – October 18, 2009, -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products and systems for the aerospace and defense market, and Hybricon, a leading supplier of innovative Systems Packaging for Rugged Embedded Computing solutions serving the military, aerospace, homeland security, medical and high-end industrial markets, today demonstrated the industry’s first live OpenVPX™ system. The demonstration system, shown at the MILCOM 2009 Conference, featured an OpenVPX backplane in a Hybricon SFF-4 Small Form Factor conduction cooled chassis integrated with Curtiss-Wright Controls’ small form factor 3U OpenVPX-compliant cards, including single board computers, expansion carrier cards, and graphics controller OpenVPX-compliant boards. The initial SFF-4 product is designed to support I/O for airborne and ground vehicle control applications, supporting I/O for Ethernet, serial, video, and 1553 or CANBUS. Different I/O complements can easily be supported with different backplane. “Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has taken a leadership position in the development of the VPX and OpenVPX specifications and we plan to offer the market the most comprehensive mix of board and subsystem solutions based on these groundbreaking new standards,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager,Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “Our VPX6-185 was the industry's first VPX SBC, our CHAMP-AV6 was the industry’s first 6U VPX DSP engine, and our VPX-1952 was one of the first VPX products selected for a major military program. We were also the first to publically demonstrate a working VPX system. We are proud to continue this leadership with support for OpenVPX, many of our existing products today are ‘OpenVPX Ready’.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/694.html HIGH WYCOMBE, UK – October 14, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, VXS, and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced a new FPGA Mezzanine Card module, the FMC-520 DAC dual/quad channel digital-to-analog converter (DAC) card, that can support up to four analog output channels updating at 500MSPS or two analog output channels at 1.0GSPS. The card is designed for use in demanding military applications such as Electronic Counter Measures , Software Defined Radio and RADAR that require high-speed ADC and DAC components. The FMC-520 speeds and simplifies the integration of FPGAs into embedded system designs. The low latency, high-bandwidth module eliminates data bottlenecks to increase DSP subsystem performance by routing the high-speed DAC I/O directly to the host board’s FPGAs via the FMC connector. It complements Curtiss-Wright Controls’ growing family of high-speed ADC FMC cards, including the recently announced ADC511, ADC512, and ADC513, providing a complete ADC/DAC solution for DSP applications. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/692.html LEESBURG, VA – October 14, 2009, -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced the availability of support for Gedae, Inc.’s Graphical Entry Distributed Application Environment software development tool for multiprocessor DSP systems on its high bandwidth, highly rugged VPX form-factor CHAMP-AV6 DSP engine board. With support for GEDAE users can now run existing Gedae applications on the high-performance CHAMP-AV6, taking full advantage of the board’s advanced dual-core 8640 Power Architecture processor and high-bandwidth Serial RapidIO fabric based architecture. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/691.html OTTAWA, CANADA – October 6, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced the XMC-660, multi-function mezzanine card that combines wireless, GPS and cryptography to deliver portable, secure in-the-field wireless connectivity. The light-weight, small form-factor XMC-660 is an ideal solution for quickly and easily adding high-performance trusted wireless communications to VME, VPX and CompactPCI embedded systems for applications including luggable computers, manpacks, and secure laptop computers. “Today’s netcentric battlefield demands enhanced situational awareness using secure wireless communications,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager, Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “The highly integrated XMC-660 enables system designers to connect portable PCs and wearable systems to access points within ground vehicles, base camps or to other nodes, forming ad-hoc wireless networks that provide the underlying infrastructure to transmit voice, video and data between authenticated users.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/683.html Scottsdale, AZ, September 24, 2009 – The OpenVPX™ Industry Working Group, an alliance of VITA member defense and aerospace prime contractors and embedded computing systems suppliers focused on addressing VPX system-level interoperability issues, has announced the completion of the OpenVPX draft V0.9.4 specification. The OpenVPX working group established an aggressive schedule to address interoperability improvements in the VITA 46 specification in a timely manner. The member companies have come together and have been working diligently to meet these goals. As a result of the focused efforts within the OpenVPX Technical Working Group the specification is nearing completion and is on schedule. Plans call for the specification to transition into the VITA 65 working group following submission of the completed OpenVPX V1.0 Specification in October, with the objective of VITA Standards Organization ratification before year's end. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/680.html DAYTON, OH – September 15, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed subsystems for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced the new Vortex SDR1X, a fixed-featured off-the-shelf 10 gigabit Ethernet streaming data recorder system for demanding sensor-to-processor streaming data applications. The Vortex SDR1X combines a uniquely equipped 3U controller with a reliable, scalable storage subsystem. This rack mountable data recorder can record a 10GbE data signal at rates up to 800MB/s. The Vortex SDR1X speeds the integration of high-speed data recording and data logging capabilities into subsystems designed for instrumentation recording, mission recording, and SIGINT/ELINT recording applications. “The Vortex SDR1X delivers 10GbE data recording and highly scalable storage,” said David Dietz, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems. “With our proven design and advanced Vortex technology and simple yet powerful GUI, system integrators reduce their risk and cut their time-to-market. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/672.html Scottsdale, AZ, August 28, 2009 – The OpenVPX™ Industry Working Group, an alliance of VITA member defense and aerospace prime contractors and embedded computing systems suppliers focused on addressing VPX system-level interoperability issues, has announced on schedule the completion of the OpenVPX draft V0.8 specification. The OpenVPX working group established an aggressive schedule to address interoperability improvements in the VITA 46 specification in a timely manner. The member companies have come together and have been working diligently to meet these goals. As a result of the focused efforts within the OpenVPX Technical Working Group the specification is nearing completion and is on schedule for transition into the VITA 65 working group following submission of the completed OpenVPX V1.0 Specification in October, with the objective of VITA Standards Organization ratification before year's end. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/670.html LETCHWORTH, UK - August 19, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, VXS and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced the PMC-281, its first MPEG4/H.264 high-definition video capture/compression PMC interface card. The rugged conduction-cooled PMC-281 joins the recently introduced XMC-280 JPEG2000 compression module, and the earlier Orion PMC, to expand the company’s embedded COTS video compression capabilities. Designed for demanding military applications, the PMC-281 facilitates the design of video distribution and/or recording in applications such as military systems that provide situational awareness. “The PMC-281 provides hardware accelerated MPEG4/H.264 compression using low-power ASIC technology,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “We can now offer our customers the choice between MPEG4 and JPEG20000, the two major compression algorithms for HD video. With our expanded video capture/compression family our customers can tailor cost, power consumption and compression specifications to the needs of their applications.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/668.html LEESBURG, VA – August 3, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense markets, has introduced the XMC-270, a new rugged, high resolution frame grabber and video capture XMC card. The XMC-270 delivers high resolution analog and digital video capture functionality, advanced serial connectivity, with a built-in PCI Express® core to provide high performance video and image storage. Extra functionality and customizability is provided through an advanced Xilinx® Virtex®-5 FPGA. The XMC-270 simplifies and speeds the integration of high-end image and video capture functionality into embedded COTS systems designed for use in harsh environments. “The XMC-270 utilizes Curtiss-Wright Controls video IP to create a fully ruggedized next-generation framegrabber,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “This high-speed XMC card delivers industry leading image processing capabilities in a highly flexible design that will support video storage and broadcasting, digital encoding, camera link controls while enabling additional user enhancement and customization.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/664.html DAYTON, OH – JULY 22, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, VXS and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced the VPX3-FSM, or Flash Storage Module, a new rugged, high-performance and high-capacity solid-state SATA storage 3U VPX card that includes a NIST certified 256-bit AES data encryption capability. Rated at 160 MB/s memory read/writes when configured as RAID0, and 75 MB/s per port in a JBOD configuration, the conduction-cooled VPX3-FSM speeds and simplifies the addition of high reliability encrypted mass storage to VPX-based embedded systems in deployed applications. “The VPX3-FSM is one of the first small form-factor 3U VPX storage product to deliver the highest levels of security, capacity, performance, and reliability,” said David Dietz, vice president and general manager of System Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “With the addition of 256-bit AES encryption data security, the VPX3-FSM offers a compelling solution to the storage needs of critical aerospace and defense programs.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/661.html SAN DIEGO, CA -- JULY 22, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, VXS and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense market, has introduced its first Configurable System Test Rack, or CSTR. The new CSTR comprises an ideal platform for system developers who are developing and fielding applications on Curtiss-Wright Controls’ Packaged COTS Subsystems. Curtiss-Wright Controls supports CSTR test configurations with a comprehensive range of components, including 19 different types of I/O panels, commonly demanded by military I/O test systems. This stand-alone system test rack speeds and simplifies the testing of embedded systems to reduce time-to-market and fielding of critical deployed systems. “Embedded computing industry customers face unique and daunting time-to-market pressures. To help mitigate these challenges, Curtiss-Wright Controls has created Configurable System Test Racks to accelerate test development and subsystem deployment,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/662.html Leesburg, VA -- July 17, 2009 - Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense market, has announced that its VPX3-450 3U VPX FPGA engine now supports Wind River Linux 3.0, a leading Linux operating system for embedded device development. Using the same firmware and board support package provided with Curtiss-Wright Controls’ standard Linux packages, the VPX3-450 Linux BSP has been optimized to add specific FPGA-related features such as FPGA reconfiguration and DMA engine device drivers. “The addition of Wind River Linux 3.0 support is an important enhancement to our small form-factor VPX3-450 FPGA engine,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls’ Modular Solutions group. “We are seeing a growing interest within the defense and aerospace market in using Linux for tough, embedded real-time applications.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/660.html Letchworth Garden City, UK – July 2, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced SoftScan, an innovative radar scan conversion package that enables system integrators to easily and quickly develop a high-end radar scan conversion workstation using a general-purpose computer. With the appropriate graphics card, SoftScan brings GPU acceleration to radar scan conversion applications. SoftScan uses a unique GPU-based algorithm that performs high-resolution scan conversion on large polar stores with minimal CPU overhead and requires no specialist hardware. Even when rendering multiple channels of radar video, from radars, network or synthetic sources, CPU load is kept to a minimum. “With SoftScan our customers can integrate radar-scan conversion directly into their applications on a wide range of platforms: integration is easy and quick and results in a cost-effective solution,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “SoftScan leverages the processing power of modern high-end graphics processing units to deliver blistering radar-scan conversion performance while off-loading the host CPU. It complements Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing’s hardware solutions, such as Eagle radar scan converter PMC card, that provide hardware-based inline radar scan-conversion.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/655.html LEESBURG, VA – June 30, 2009 -- -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, VXS and CompactPCI products for the defense and aerospace market, has announced an enhanced, updated version of Continuum Vector its comprehensive software subroutine library that speeds and eases the development of embedded signal processing systems. Curtiss-Wright Controls has added over 120 new functions to the latest version of Continuum Vector, and optimized the performance of over 20 earlier, commonly used functions. Continuum Vector, in addition to supporting Power Architecture AltiVec vector units, now also supports PC-based C-callable libraries, enabling developers to generate algorithms on a PC environment before target hardware becomes available, to significantly reduce development time and speed time to market. “Continuum Vector is a powerful tool that significantly increases the productivity of system integrators building and developing demanding signal processing applications,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Modular Solutions group. “This latest release of Continuum Vector boosts the flexibility of the library with a far greater number of functions, improves function performance and expands support for PC-based lab pre-deployment system development. It can improve the performance of customers’ existing applications while providing more functionality to support additional algorithm development.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/654.html LEESBURG, VA – June 30, 2009, -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced the VPX6-187, its first single board computer based on Freescale's latest eight-core QorIQ™ P4080 Communications Processor. This rugged, high performance 6U VPX general purpose SBC supports its eight 1.5 GHz Power Architecture™ processor cores with high-performance datapath acceleration logic, network and peripheral bus interfaces. The VPX6-187 is designed to leverage the flexibility and rich feature set of the QorIQ P4080 processor to provide a trusted computing environment in harsh military and aerospace applications. “We are excited to introduce our next generation VPX general purpose computer that makes use of Freescale’s latest Power Architecture SOC,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager, Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “The VPX6-187 will be the first of a series of products to employ Freescale’s QorIQ P4080. It will provide our customers with unprecedented computing power and performance per watt to take embedded multicore processing to an entirely new level.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/656.html LEESBURG, VA -- June 30, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense market, has announced the successful testing and qualification of its CHAMP-FX2 VPX FPGA-based processing board and its XMC-442 FPGA compute module. The CHAMP-FX2 and XMC-44 successfully passed testing at the highest ruggedization Level-200 temperature, shock, and vibration specifications, thus setting a new benchmark for processing performance in the rugged COTS market. With their successful testing, the CHAMP-FX2 and XMC-442 join the growing ranks of Curtiss-Wright Controls high-performance, rugged VPX and XMC modules qualified for deployment in harsh military environments. “The successful qualification of our CHAMP-FX2 and XMC-442 modules further enhances Curtiss-Wright Controls’ ability to deliver high-performance, high-power, rugged-deployed FPGA-based solutions,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “We are committed to offering the market’s most advanced, rugged reconfigurable computing solutions." http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/657.html High Wycombe, UK – June 24, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, VXS, and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, today announced support for the new Xilinx® Virtex®-6 FPGAs and targeted design platforms via its family of high sampling rate, high bandwidth FPGA Mezzanine Card modules. These include the new ADC512, a 3GS/s 8-bit, dual channel analog-to-digital converter card, and new quad channel ADC513, a 1.5 GS/s 8-bit, analog-to-digital converter card, able to support up to 1,500MS/s data throughput per channel. These new FMC cards eliminate data bottlenecks by supporting bandwidths in excess of 6B/s with direct low latency connections to host FPGAs such as a Virtex-6. This helps system designers optimize and increase DSP subsystem performance. “Our new high-bandwidth ADC512 and ADC513 FMC modules deliver dedicated I/O for advanced FPGAs and enables system developers to take full advantage of Xilinx’s next generation Virtex-6 FPGAs and targeted design platforms,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “Our growing family of FMC FPGA I/O mezzanine cards significantly speeds and simplifies the use of FPGAs in rugged deployed embedded applications.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/651.html LEESBURG, VA – June 16, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading supplier of rugged embedded boards and subsystems for the rugged deployed Aerospace and Defense market, today announced support for Wind River’s new VxWorks MILS Platform 2.0 operating environment on Curtiss-Wright Controls’ high performance VPX6-185 single board computer. The MILS, or Multiple Independent Levels of Security, infrastructure enables cost-effective development of MLS, or Multilevel Secure, systems that can process classified data at multiple levels or from multiple domains simultaneously, including downgraders, guards, and other cross-domain applications. The new board support package, developed by Wind River for use with Curtiss-Wright Controls’ VPX architecture-based VPX6-185, can ease and speed the integration of MILS into deployed rugged systems, providing increased secure processing functionality in applications with space, weight and power constraints. “We are pleased to support Wind River's new VxWorks MILS Platform on our industry leading VPX single board computer,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “VxWorks MILS Platform 2.0 will enable multiple teams working in parallel to build multilevel secure systems running multiple applications, with support for many layers of security all on a single processor. Wind River VxWorks MILS Platform will provide customers with significant reduction in time to deployment and future cost-of-change.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/648.html SAN DIEGO, CA – June 16, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market, has announed the newest member of its family of high performance Intel® Core™2 Duo processor-based VPX single board computers, the VPX3-1252, its first to feature the small form factor, low voltage Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor SP9300. This small form factor, fully featured 3U SBC is designed for harsh-environment air- and conduction-cooled aerospace and defense applications, and delivers 2.26 GHz performance from each of its dual cores, providing advanced Intel Architecture processing in a lightweight, compact configuration ideal for space, weight and power constrained applications. With a wide complement of on-board I/O, PCI express fabric, and XMC expansion, the VPX3-1252 satisfies the most demanding fielded applications from unmanned aerial and ground vehicles, tactical aircraft, and armored vehicles to rugged naval systems. “The VPX3-1252 is an ideal combination of high performance x86 and rugged small form-factor computing,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “For SWaP-constrained applications, such as deployed Network-Centric communications, Vehicle Management and Graphics/Video display systems, this 3U VPX card is a great fit.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/649.html LEESBURG, VA – June 16, 2009 --Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense market, has announced that its multi-core CHAMP-AV6 VPX digital signal processor engine is now available with an advanced new Air-Flow-Through cooling technology. AFT cooling technology can accommodate power densities well in excess of 100 Watts per slot, and has been implemented in multi-slot single line-replaceable units with total power dissipation rated >1,000 Watts. Unlike the classic conduction-cooled model in which the chassis provides the heat-exchange function, the innovative AFT cooling technology implemented by Curtiss-Wright Controls locates the card-to-air heat exchangers within the processing module. Test results for AFT-based systems show significantly improved cooling of high-power modules, such as the CHAMP-AV6, resulting in lower component temperatures for a given inlet air-temperature. The CHAMP-AV6 AFT design features inlet and exhaust ports that connect and seal directly to the chassis. An AFT system provides a similar level of environmental separation between the cooling air and the module electronics as does a conduction-cooled system. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/650.html Leesburg, VA – June 1, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, VXS and CompactPCI products for the deployed aerospace and defense market, has launched a new initiative to develop and provide Trusted COTS™ enabling technologies for the deployed embedded market in response to the U.S. Department of Defense’s mandate that all critical military technologies and data be protected.. Curtiss-Wright Controls will invest resources to support the services, personnel and processes needed to supply its customers and industry partners with Trusted COTS products. “Our new initiative will endeavor to develop and support best practices for Trusted COTS solutions from the clean room to the war room,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “Curtiss-Wright Controls has dedicated resources to identify and develop open architecture-compatible products and services for the rugged deployed COTS market. Our approach will be to provide layers of protection by developing the intellectual property and partnership relationships with the key suppliers needed to build a comprehensive portfolio of enabling technologies that our customers can utilize in their protection plans”. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/642.html Letchworth Garden City, UK – June 1, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced the Sentric2 family of rugged COTS video recording and playback systems that support multiple channels of high-definition video and leading edge JPEG2000 and MPEG4 compression. Sentric2 enables simple and cost-effective high-resolution video capture and real-time video compression to be added to deployable systems. Support for metadata further extends Sentric2 capabilities, enabling the integration of GPS data, timing data, and the creation of event tags for use as chapter points for navigation within captured and compressed video. “Sentric2 delivers the high-definition video capability and performance demanded by a growing number of defense and aerospace applications,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “While Sentric2 is able to satisfy most applications with an off-the-shelf configuration, its flexible and scalable architecture enables customers to quickly tailor cost-effective solutions for their particular needs, speeding their time to market.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/642.html High Wycombe, UK – May 29, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, VXS, and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced its highest channel density FPGA Mezzanine Card module, the new quad channel ADC513, a 1.5 GS/s 8-bit, analog-to-digital converter card, able to support up to 1,500MS/s data throughput per channel. Designed for use in demanding direct RF downconversion, SigInt/Surveillance, Satellite communications and SDR applications, the ADC513 speeds and simplifies the integration of FPGAs into embedded system design by providing high bandwidth I/O direct to the host card’s FPGAs. The module eliminates data bottlenecks to increase DSP subsystem performance by routing high-speed ADC I/O directly to the host board’s FPGAs via the FMC connector. “With its quad channels, the ADC513 is our highest density FMC module,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. ”It provides a balance between channel density, high-speed data sampling and data throughput rates unmatched in the industry.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/640.html High Wycombe, UK – May 29, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing today announced that it has begun shipping the XMC-FPGA05F, its new generation user programmable FPGA XMC/PMC module with fiber-optic transceivers. Available in both in air- or conduction-cooled versions, the XMC-FPGA05F, a follow-on to the popular PMC-FPGA03F, incorporates the Xilinx® Virtex®-5 FPGA with four front panel fiber-optic transceivers. The increasing use of high-speed serial interconnects in embedded real-time DSP systems and the effectiveness of FPGAs to interface to sensor I/O makes the XMC-FPGA05F ideal for demanding real-time applications such as remote sensor interfaces, data recorders, and embedded real-time distributed computing. “The XMC-FPGA05F effectively solves a number of problems through its mix of user programmable FPGA and fiber optic data links which can be used for low latency communications, custom protocols and efficient data gateways within a rugged environment.” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “The XMC-FPGA05F is a simple, but important, product that makes a significant impact in a system’s viability.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/641.html Dayton, OH – May 19, 2009, -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, the originators of the Physical Layer Switch, has announced the availability of a new T1/E1/J1 telecommunications port card, further expanding the capabilities of their 144-port and 288-port GLX4000 series physical layer switch. The GLX 4000, a “4th Generation” Layer 1 switch is the industry’s highest density physical layer switch and offers flexible, expandable crossbar switch performance for industrial, defense and aerospace applications. The GLX4000 is a non-blocking, multi-protocol physical layer switch that enables any serial digital signal input, up to 10 Gb/s, to connect to any single output. It provides users the ability to control network configurations while reducing set-up time, limiting network errors, and cutting costs. “Curtiss-Wright Controls' GLX4000 revolutionized the physical layer switch market with unmatched port density,” said David Dietz, vice president and general manager of Embedded Computing's Systems Solutions group. “We continue to enhance and expand its capabilities. The new T1 Port Card makes this flexible Layer 1 switch ideal for international telecommunications testing applications.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/638.html AUSTIN, Texas and LEESBURG, VA – May 12, 2009 – To meet stringent market requirements for high performance and low-power operation within space- and weight constrained environments, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing is announcing plans to develop a family of rugged, single board computers based on Freescale’s QorIQ™ P4080 eight-core communications processor. Curtiss-Wright Controls plans to use the advanced device based on Power Architecture® technology for a new line of SBCs based on open standards and designed for demanding military and aerospace markets. The family of SBCs is engineered to leverage the flexibility, security enhancements and rich feature set of the QorIQ P4080 processor, providing a trusted computing environment even in harsh military and aerospace applications. “The performance, low-power operation and robust functionality of Freescale’s QorIQ P4080 device takes embedded multicore processing to entirely new levels,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “We are excited to extend our unmatched commitment to delivering the industry’s most advanced Power Architecture compute engines by launching our new family of SBCs based on Freescale’s flagship eight-core product. These boards will deliver the next generation in performance per watt computing on Power Architecture technology.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/637.html Leesburg, VA –May 11, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, VXS, and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market has announced a flexible, multi-card 3U VPX solution for rugged deployed embedded FPGA processing applications. With the interoperability of its 3U VPX FPE320 FPGA processor card, 3U VPX VPX3-450 FPGA processor and 3U VPX VPX3-127 single board computer running Wind River’s VxWorks, Curtiss-Wright Controls delivers an unmatched level of flexibility for addressing high-performance 3U VPX systems applications. “Space, weight and power requirements are driving customers to use the largest FPGAs in their systems, while still needing general purpose processing and I/O. The FPE320/VPX3-450/VPX3-127 platform provides both in a rugged 3U form factor,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss- Wright Controls Embedded Computing. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/636.html High Wycombe, UK – May 5, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, VXS, and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced its highest resolution FPGA Mezzanine Card module, the new ADC511, a 400MS/s 14-bit, dual channel analog-to-digital converter card. Designed for use in demanding DSP applications such as signal intelligence, electronic counter measures, and radar, the ADC511 speeds and simplifies the integration of FPGAs into embedded system design by providing high bandwidth I/O direct to the host card’s FPGAs. The module eliminates data bottlenecks to increase DSP subsystem performance by routing high-speed ADC I/O directly to the host board’s FPGAs via the FMC connector. “The ADC511 is the latest member of our broad family of FMC modules,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “It provides designers of FPGA-based DSP subsystems with a high-bandwidth, low-latency approach for coupling FPGA and ADC I/O and creates very powerful rugged deployed aerospace and defense solutions.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/635.html Charlotte, NC – April 28, 2009 – Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc., a leading manufacturer of mission critical systems for defense and aerospace applications, today announced that it has received a contract from a U.S. Army agency to supply ground penetrating radar technology for use in the detection of unexploded ordnances in overseas operations. Under the terms of the agreement, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing’s 3d-Radar group will provide its innovative step frequency B3231 antenna and GeoScope GPR processing solutions to the military. “Curtiss-Wright Controls is proud to provide our ground penetrating radar technology for use by the U.S. Army,” said David Adams, co-chief operating officer of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. “This is truly ground-breaking news in more ways than one, and marks a milestone for 3d-Radar since its technology is especially well suited for the detection of buried objects such as unexploded ordnances.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/634.html LETCHWORTH, UK - April 24, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial-off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced the XMC-280, a powerful new interface for high-definition video with JPEG2000 compression. The XMC-280 provides an open standards-based high performance solution for capturing, compressing, decompressing and displaying two channels of video up to 1080p and 1920x1200 resolutions. Designed for demanding military video applications, the XMC-280 facilitates the design of systems that require the distribution or recording of video such as those in situational awareness applications. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/633.html LEESBURG, VA – March 31, 2009 – Curtiss-Wright Controls today announced that its Embedded Computing division, headquartered in Leesburg, VA, has been named a recipient of the 2008 Boeing Performance Excellence Award in recognition of its superior supplier performance. The Boeing Company issues the award annually. Curtiss-Wright Controls maintained a Silver composite performance rating for each month of the 12-month performance period, from Oct. 1, 2007, to Sept. 30, 2008. This year, Boeing recognized 411 suppliers who achieved either a Gold or Silver level Boeing Performance Excellence Award. Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing is among 325 suppliers to receive the Silver level of recognition. “Curtiss-Wright’s long, successful partnership with Boeing is one of continued performance excellence,” said Tom Quinly, President of Curtiss-Wright Controls. “It is an honor to be recognized by Boeing for our dedication to the highest standards of quality and delivery, and I am pleased to share this award with all of our employees who strive daily to exceed our customers’ expectations.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/630.html Leesburg, VA – March 30, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, VXS and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, announced that it has added a powerful new multiprocessor debugger feature to Continuum Insights 3.0, its popular suite of GUI-based System Monitoring, Event Analysis, and System Management software tools for developers of embedded multicomputer systems application software. Continuum Insights is the industry’s first development tool suite to offer a multiprocessor debugger, an essential tool for system integrators developing large multiprocessor systems. The new debugger tool speeds and simplifies the development of embedded multiprocessor systems for demanding digital signal processing applications such as solid-state, synthetic aperture radar, and signals intelligence. “With the addition of its new Debugger tool, Continuum Insights continues to uniquely and powerfully meet the specific needs of multiprocessor system developers,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “As our customers increasingly build applications based on multiple processors and cores, Continuum Insights becomes an essential tool, setting new standards for addressing the complexity of multiprocessor applications by delivering a powerful suite of graphical user interface software that optimizes development productivity while maximizing total multicomputer system performance.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/616.html Leading COTS embedded board, subsystem and backplane and enclosure vendors, including Curtiss-Wright Controls, Elma Electronic, Carlo Gavazzi, and X-ES Inc have issued a joint statement of support for the proven open standard approach to the development of bus and board system architectures. The companies wish to reiterate and reinforce the importance of maintaining the integrity and openness of the VITA Standards Organization (VSO), an arm of the industry's most successful and long-lived trade association of which each of the companies is a member. The companies jointly issued the following statement: "The cooperative work of the members of the VITA Standards Organization resulted in the creation and evolution of VME, for over 25 years the de facto board architecture of choice for the aerospace and defense market, and, more recently, VPX, a higher performance, more flexible enhancement to VME. The spirit of 'coopetition' and openness that brought VSO's members, including competing vendors and users, together for the common good of the industry reflects and embodies the standards body's basic principles that ensure fairness, inclusion and consensus for all participants. These principles have fostered and guided the success of VITA since its inception in 1984, then under the stewardship of VITA's founding director Lyman C. Hevle, and the VSO one of the electronics industry's most respected standards body, since its formation in 1993. We recognize the importance of defining an open specification for system-level VPX interoperability, but we also believe that this work is best done within the existing, proven model of the VSO Working Group system. The open forum provided by VITA is the right and best place for the industry to cooperatively develop the critical new VPX initiatives destined for use by important customers such as the US military. We recommend the formation of a VSO Working Group on VPX interoperability for VITA 46 to help resolve issues and speed the development of a common VPX backplane architecture while ensuring that no single company or selective group of companies is able to exert undo influence on the specification and unfairly benefit from the cooperative work of all the member companies who have contributed resources and efforts over many years to the standard's development." http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/612.html High Wycombe, UK – March 2, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX, VXS, and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced its highest sampling rate, highest bandwidth FPGA Mezzanine Card module, the new ADC512, a 3GS/s 8-bit, dual channel analog-to-digital converter card, able to support up to 6 GB/s data throughput. Designed for use in demanding direct RF downconversion, SigInt/Surveillance, Satellite communications and SDR, the ADC512 speeds and simplifies the integration of FPGAs into embedded system design by providing high bandwidth I/O direct to the host card’s FPGAs. The module eliminates data bottlenecks to increase DSP subsystem performance by routing high-speed ADC I/O directly to the host board’s FPGAs via the FMC connector. Available in both air-cooled and conduction-cooled rugged versions, the ADC512 has two onboard National Semiconductor ADC083000 ADC devices. Each of the module’s ADCs supports a sampling rate up 3000 MS/s per channel. By routing the ADC device interfaces directly to the FMC connector, the ADC512 enables an FPGA on the host board to directly control and receive data. The ADC512 supports an external clock input to control the sampling rate for both ADC channels Input and output triggers are provided enabling the number of input channels to be increased by synchronizing multiple ADC512 modules. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/604.html EMBEDDED WORLD, Nuremburg, Germany – March 2, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has announced that it will support the new industrial temperature range version of the Intel® Atom™ processor Z5xx series on its recently introduced rugged low power, high performance, small factor VPX3-1100 ATOMIC board family. The Atom processor Z5xx series features advanced power management techniques such as new C6 state Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology, CMOS mode and Split IO power supply support. These low power features make the Intel Atom processor Z5xx series ideal for space, weight and power constrained and fanless embedded applications such as the secure rugged deployed aerospace and defense applications for which the VPX3-1100 ATOMIC was designed. “The ultra-low power, highly integrated VPX3-1100 ATOMIC single board computer will take full advantage of the new options for the Intel® Atom™ processor and the Intel® System Controller Hub US15W,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “When combined with our innovative 2LM-ATS Perimeter Defense technology, the VPX3-1100 ATOMIC delivers a new breed of low power SBC that puts Curtiss-Wright at the forefront of embedded highly secure computing.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/605.html Leesburg, VA – February 26, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has introduced a new low power, high performance, small factor VPX3-1100 ATOMIC board designed for rugged deployed aerospace and defense applications that require highly secure computing. Based on the Intel® Atom™ processor, the card brings advanced multi-core processing, netcentric battlefield communications connectivity, graphics and next generation security options to a rugged, small form factor 3U VPX architecture ideal for space, weight and power constrained applications such as embedded security systems, Rugged-Mobile Internet Devices, secure radios, manpacks, wearable electronics, vetronics, in-vehicle networking, telematics, situational awareness systems, graphics systems, embedded robotics, electronic vehicle health monitoring systems, and general purpose low power rugged or secure computing. “The ultra-low power, highly integrated VPX3-1100 ATOMIC single board computer defines a whole new category of small form factor rugged COTS computing,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “It’s essentially a pocket-sized super processor. This innovative card will take full advantage of the Intel® Atom™ processor to deliver a new breed of low power SBC that puts Curtiss-Wright Controls at the forefront of embedded highly secure computing.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/592.html Leesburg, VA – February 13, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, VXS and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced that it is opening a new Tech Support Office to serve customers throughout the UK and Europe. Located in the company’s High Wycombe, UK-based business unit, the Tech Support Office will expand Curtiss-Wright’s presence in UK and European markets, and provide support for all Curtiss-Wright board-based products and related software. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/590.html High Wycombe, UK – February 9, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, VXS and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced the XMC-FPGA05D, a new high-performance I/O mezzanine card that combines a user-programmable FPGA and configurable I/O on a single compact, rugged card to deliver an enhanced level of I/O flexibility and processing performance. This PMC/XMC card, available in both air- and conduction-cooled versions, takes full advantage of its on-board Virtex®-5 FPGA to control the I/O interface and deliver up to 138 signals, such as ADC, DAC, Camera Link, RS485, LVDS, from its front panel, and up to 64 signals from the backplane via the host card. The XMC-FPGA05D combines the latest generation reconfigurable FPGA processing with fast data paths to simplify and speed the integration of high-speed I/O into embedded subsystems for a wide variety of applications, including imaging, direct sensor interfacing and system control for radar, telecommunication (SDR), tracking systems, and SigINT platforms. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/589.html CAMBRIDGE, UK – February 3, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced Cougar, a powerful new radar input and scan converter VME board set. Cougar provides an open standards-based high performance solution for capturing, converting and mixing radar video. Designed for demanding military radar applications, Cougar speeds and simplifies the integration of advanced radar image processing and distribution functionality into deployed embedded systems. “Cougar is a flexible all-in-one solution for high performance radar video acquisition, scan conversion and display,” said Alan McCormick, managing director, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, radar and video group. “Cougar’s proven design and feature-rich software support provides radar systems integrators a low-risk, high performance platform that will enable them to minimize their costs and speed their time to market.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/587.html LEESBURG, VA – January 28, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, VXS and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced the SPMC/DPMC-214, a new high performance, rugged PMC card that offloads host processor cards from CANbus, MilCAN, and Utility Bus processing tasks. The SPMC/DPMC-214, available in both air- and conduction-cooled versions, speeds and eases the integration of the CANbus and MilCAN data communications protocols into embedded aerospace and defense systems deployed in harsh environments. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/585.html LEESBURG, VA – January 28, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading supplier of rugged embedded boards and subsystems for the rugged deployed Aerospace and Defense market has announced a new expanded version of its popular SANbric™ storage subsystem, a rugged removable rotating media storage system for high altitude applications. Now available with up to 2.7 terabytes (TB) of hard drive storage, the SANbric deploys six 3.5”drives in a JBOD configuration supported by a dual high-speed Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (FC SAN) communications architecture. SANbric is designed for use in the harsh environments typical of military aerospace intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance applications such as ELINT, COMINT, SIGINT, SAR, MTI, and SDR. SANbric enables system integrators to rapidly and easily deploy a high-performance, high-capacity storage system at a cost significantly less than that of solid-state FLASH memory–based alternatives. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/586.html OTTAWA, CANADA – January 14, 2009 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has introduced its highest density small form factor Gigabit Ethernet multilayer switch/router board designed for rugged embedded aerospace and defense applications. The new VPX3-683 FireBlade, available with 24 GbE SerDes ports and up to two x10 GbE XAUI ports, is ideal for system integrators architecting secure high performance IPv4/v6 Intra-Platform Networks (IPNs). This rugged, compact 3U VPX card, which can operate either as a fully managed switch/router, provides significant performance and configuration advantages to developers building Layer 2 and Layer 2/3+ networks. With support for the “defacto” industry standard CLI, the VPX3-683 FireBlade significantly speeds time to market by reducing set-up, configuration and maintenance times. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/528.html Cambridge, UK – November 25, 2008 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced VDS, a new digital video distribution system suite comprised of middleware and a comprehensive selection of video hardware. VDS facilitates the implementation of applications that require high performance video distribution over a network. The elements of VDS combine to create deployable solutions for a wide range of aerospace and defense applications such as ship-wide naval distribution, local situational awareness, airborne distribution, and simulation systems. “The demand for real-time distribution and storage of high quality video in the deployed military market continues to grow,” said Alan McCormick, Managing Director, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, radar and video group. “Our family of hardware interfaces and compression engines, together with the VDS middleware and Sentric recording and playback solutions offer systems integrators a cohesive set of capabilities for these critical applications.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/558.html Roseland, N.J., Nov 24, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW) today announced that Tom Quinly has been named President of Curtiss-Wright Controls, the Motion Control segment of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. He is succeeding David C. Adams who was recently promoted to the newly created position of Co-Chief Operating Officer of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. With more than 25 years in the defense, aerospace and commercial sectors, Mr. Quinly most recently led Curtiss-Wright's embedded computing business as Vice President of the Motion Control segment. He has been responsible for successfully integrating six previous acquisitions, including achieving strong organic growth, and enhancing the product portfolio with additional acquisitions, including Pentland Systems and VMETRO, both completed in 2008. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/556.html "Enhanced Network Security Protects War-fighters’ Platforms" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-MES-Nov-Dec-2008-MTI.pdf "Mechanical Aspects of VPX and VPX-REDI Enhance Functionality and Ruggedness" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-RTC-Oct-2008.pdf Leesburg, VA – November 5, 2008 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading supplier of rugged embedded boards and subsystems for the rugged deployed Aerospace and Defense market, has announced the XMC/PMC-550 a new high performance, rugged solid state drive card. The XMC/PMC-550 is offered in both XMC and PMC form factor versions and is ideal for use in legacy and latest rugged deployed applications. The XMC/PMC-550’s standard Serial ATA interface enables it to be easily supported and integrated into VME VPX, and CompactPCI systems. Its rugged small form-factor packaging makes it ideal for space constrained deployed applications and technology refresh opportunities. It speeds the integration of large quantities of media storage in harsh environments where operation while subjected to shock and vibration are critical. “The XMC/PMC-550 is a high performance, power efficient solid state drive solution ideally suited for the rugged aerospace and defense applications,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Modular Solutions, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. “The XMC/PMC-550 provides a great combination of performance, interoperability and reliability that hits the sweet spot of our customers’ solid state drive requirements.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/548.html Leesburg, VA – November 4, 2008 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and mezzanine products for the defense and aerospace market, and an affiliate member of the Intel® Embedded and Communications Alliance, has announced the VPX6-1952, its first rugged 6U VPX single board computer based on the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor T9400. “Curtiss-Wright is proud to introduce the first Intel® Architecture 6U VPX single board computer. This next-generation VPX single board computer, which has already been selected for use in a future military program, brings all of the performance and flexibility of x86 processing to the rugged deployed aerospace and defense market,” said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright’s Modular Solutions group. “Even better, its power management features make it ideal for space, weight and power constrained applications in harsh environments.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/547.html San Diego, CA - September 30, 2008 -- Providing the latest solution in its line of robust support offerings for military and aerospace embedded applications developers, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, and LynuxWorks, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, have announced support for LynuxWork’s LynxOS SE 5.0 on Curtiss-Wright’s SVME/DMV-1901 Intel Core2 Duo-based 6U VME single board computer (SBC). The growing alliance between LynuxWorks and Curtiss-Wright illustrates both companies’ commitment to the military and aerospace industries and the developers that drive those industries. The alliance further enables the companies to provide advanced and reliable software for mission critical applications. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/530.html Leesburg, VA – September 29, 2008 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME and VPX products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced the availability of the VPX3-450, its first Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA-based 3U VPX (VITA 46/48) compute engine. The new VPX3-450, the latest member in the company’s expanding offering of high-performance rugged small form factor 3U compute engines, is designed for demanding, high-performance signal and image processing applications including radar, sonar, and signal intelligence. Its small, compact 3U form factor makes it ideal for space, weight and power constrained applications on platforms such as UAVs and land vehicles. With software driver and IP development support from Curtiss-Wright’s Continuum FXtools developer’s kit, the VPX3-450 significantly speeds and simplifies the development of custom FPGA designs. “The VPX3-450 is the newest addition to our growing family of advanced 3U VPX single board computers, digital signal processing engines and FPGA compute engines. It provides unprecedented computational density and flexibility enabling military system designers to get their custom FPGA-based application out into the field faster,” said Lynn Patterson, Vice President and General Manager of Curtiss-Wright’s Modular Solutions group. “It delivers Xilinx’s most advanced FPGAs on the most powerful and rugged small factor board architecture available.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/518.html ROSELAND, N.J., Aug 25, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW) announced that it has submitted a letter to VMETRO ASA (OSE: VME) stating its intention to launch a voluntary offer to acquire 100 percent of the outstanding stock of VMETRO ASA at a price per share of NOK 12.06 in cash. The launch of the voluntary offer is subject to certain contingencies, including completion of a limited due diligence and there being no material adverse change in the business and business assets of VMETRO before the launch of the offer. There is no assurance that any offer will be launched, and the company will have no further comment until the contingencies on its offer have been resolved. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/521.html Leesburg, VA – August 18, 2008 - Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX and CompactPCI products, has announced the VPX3-127, a new Power™ Architecture-based 3U VPX (VITA 46) single board computer (SBC). The powerful, small form-factor VPX3-127 SBC is the latest addition to Curtiss-Wright’s extensive family of rugged VPX SBC and DSP engines, and brings the high-bandwidth, serial switched fabric support, and ESD protection benefits of the VPX board architecture to space and weight constrained 3U embedded applications. When used with Curtiss-Wright’s VPX3-215 ExpressReach 3U IO expansion carrier card, the VPX3-127 provides a powerful card set for small system development. “3U VPX SBCs enable system integrators to deploy rugged, compact system solutions in space and weight constrained environments, ” said Lynn Patterson, Vice President and General Manager of Curtiss-Wright’s Modular Solutions group. “The new VPX3-127 SBC is a powerful 3U processing solution ideal for harsh environment aerospace and defense applications. This board’s support for high-speed serial switched interconnects, PCI Express and SRIO, along with its feature rich IO complement (GIE, USB, DIO, serial ports), provides outstanding performance-per-feature-per-Watt.” http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/520.html Leesburg, VA and West Lafayette, IN – August 1, 2008 – Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products, and Arxan Defense Systems, Inc. a leading anti-tamper systems integrator, together announced that they will partner to develop leading-edge anti-tamper products to provide embedded system integrators with the tools they require to develop solutions for their unique Program Protection Plans. Working together, the two companies will enable embedded aerospace and federal customers to achieve compliance with US Department of Defense’s Anti-Tamper policy. The rapidly growing demand for anti-tamper solutions in the Aerospace and Defense sector creates an exciting market opportunity for Curtiss-Wright and Arxan. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/518.html Charlotte, N.C. – July 31, 2008 – Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc., a leading manufacturer of mission critical systems for defense and aerospace applications, today announced it was chosen for the development and demonstration phase of the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems’ Integrated Computer System program. Under terms of the contract with General Dynamics C4 Systems and Rockwell Collins, Inc., Curtiss-Wright will supply its Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module to meet the performance and reliability needs of the FCS, a family of advanced, networked air- and ground-based military systems for use by the Army's future forces. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/519.html CAMBRIDGE, UK -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced, a new common API platform, RVL+, that significantly speeds and simplifies the integration of radar and video processing subsystems. RVL+ comprises an extensive set of C-language software libraries that enable system integrators to easily add advanced functionality such as radar acquisition, video mixing and radar scan-conversion into their applications. The common API interface provided by RVL+ simplifies the generation of software applications and reduces the time required for product familiarization and integration. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/515.html Cambridge, UK -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced a new rugged, conduction-cooled dual-channel video compression/decompression board, the Orion CC, available in the PMC form factor for use in VME and CompactPCI systems. It joins the earlier air-cooled Orion PMC/PCI card, to expand Curtiss-Wright’s JPEG 2000 product family. The Orion CC is ideally suited for deployed systems requiring distribution and/or storage of video sensor information. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/513.html Leesburg, VA -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense market, has announced the availability of the XMC-PMC-E2202, a rugged and compact high-speed, quad channel 16-bit digital receiver XMC or PMC mezzanine card. The latest member of Curtiss-Wright’s XMC-PMC-E220x family of digital receiver mezzanine cards, the XMC-PMC-E2202 supports analog sampling rates of 160 Msps and speeds the integration of high performance signal acquisition into rugged deployed COTS VPX, VME and CompactPCI subsystems. Designed for demanding signal acquisition applications, the card is ideal for use in radar, software defined radio, and signal intelligence platforms. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/512.html Littleton, MA – Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense market, has announced the availability of the Power Accessory Distribution System or PADS, a ready to use, rugged, drop-in power source that delivers 110 Vac as well as 12 Vdc and 5 Vdc power outlets in 28 Vdc power-based military vehicles. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/511.html Leesburg, VA -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense market, has announced the successful testing and qualification of its multi-core CHAMP-AV6 VPX digital signal processor engine, incorporating the Freescale 8641D dual-core processor. The CHAMP-AV6 successfully passed testing at the highest Level-200 temperature, shock, and vibration specifications, thus setting a new benchmark for processing performance in the rugged COTS market. The CHAMP-AV6’s successful test results deliver on the promise of VPX (VITA 46), the new generation of high performance, rugged open architecture embedded board modules. The VPX standard, collaboratively developed by COTS industry leaders and prime military integrators, delivers a high-speed serial interconnect with a form-factor and feature set specifically designed to meet the most demanding A and D applications. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/510.html Cambridge, UK – June 9, 2008 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf PMC, VME, PCI, VPX and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense market, has announced the Eagle-2, a new high-resolution radar video scanconverter card. This compact PMC mezzanine module delivers enhanced scan conversion performance and support for high-resolution screen displays and eases the integration of advanced radar scan conversion functionality into VME, VPX and CompactPCI and PC-based systems. The Eagle-2 supports the simultaneous scan-conversion of multiple radar sources into PPI, A-Scan, or BScan formats at display resolutions up to 2560 x 1600, including 2048 x 2048 to address the growing demand for large-screen displays. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/505.html Leesburg, VA – June 5, 2008 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced the first member of a new family of Packaged COTS fully integrated rugged subsystems. The new Power Architecture-based Multi-Platform Mission Computer-9350p and Intel-based Multi-Platform Mission Computer-9350i PCOTS subsystems are flexibly configured five-slot 3U CompactPCI subsystems housed in a sealed, light-weight, compact chassis fully preconfigured with power supply, and a wide range of IO. Designed for high availability in the harshest field conditions, the MPMC-9350p and MPMC-9350i deliver a fully qualified, off-the-shelf solution designed to speed deployment of critical applications for space, weight and power constrained platforms such as combat vehicles, helicopters and UAVs. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/507.html Leesburg, VA – Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial-off-the-shelf products for the aerospace and defense markets, has announced the availability of Continuum Insights 2.1, an enhanced new version of its popular suite of GUI-based software tools for developers of embedded multicomputer systems application software. Continuum Insights 2.1 is based on the Eclipse development and application framework and innovatively provides developers of complex multiprocessor-based computer systems with the information they need to accurately tune their systems and speed their time-to-market. The new version of Insights adds a powerful System Management tool to the Event Analysis tool and a System Monitoring tool previously included in the software suite. In addition, it adds support for Curtiss-Wrights CHAMP-FX2 FPGA-based DSP engine, support for dual-core processors, and support for Wind River Workbench 2.6.1 and the VxWorks 6.5 operating environment. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/506.html Charlotte, N.C. – May 14, 2008 – Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc., a leading manufacturer of mission critical systems for defense and aerospace applications, today announced an 8 million contract award by General Dynamics C4 Systems and Rockwell Collins, Inc. to provide Curtiss-Wright General Processor Modules for use in the Integrated Computer System of the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems program. The Integrated Computer System combines a wide range of previously independent computing applications into a single, integrated, secure processing environment. ICS is a common computing environment for 13 of the 14 platforms in the FCS family of systems which comprises a network of sensors, unmanned aerial platforms and manned and unmanned ground systems. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/503.html Leesburg, VA - April 2, 2008 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and mezzanine products for the defense and aerospace market, has announced that it will support the new Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT field programmable gate array platform with a range of rugged board level products. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/499.html Leesburg, VA - April 2, 2008 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense market, has announced the results of recent performance testing for its CHAMP-AV6 VPX digital signal processor engine. In the test, two quad FreeScale 8641 Power Architecture-based CHAMP-AV6s delivered a previously unachievable sustained intercard data rate of 8.68 GB per second, highlighting the performance advantages of Serial RapidIO over the new VPX bus architecture. The test results, which indicate a 16x improvement over a quad PowerPC-based VME-based DSP engine using StarFabric underline the advantages of the VPX standard, collaboratively developed by COTS industry leaders and prime military integrators, which delivers a high-speed serial interconnect with a form-factor and feature set specifically designed to meet the most demanding aerospace and defense applications. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/498.html LEESBURG, VA - March 28, 2008 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense market, has announced the availability of the XMC-E2201, a rugged and compact high-speed, dual channel 16-bit digital receiver XMC-PMC mezzanine card. The XMC-E2201 supports analog sampling rates of 160 Msps and speeds the integration of high performance signal acquisition into rugged deployed COTS VPX, VME and CompactPCI subsystems. Designed for demanding signal acquisition applications, the card is ideal for use in radar, software defined radio, and signal intelligence platforms. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/497.html Leesburg, VA – February 14, 2008 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading supplier of rugged embedded boards and subsystems for the rugged deployed Aerospace and Defense market, has announced that it has acquired the business and assets of Pentland Systems Ltd., Livingston, Scotland, UK a leading supplier of rugged signal acquisition solutions. The purchase greatly enhances Curtiss-Wright’s sensor processing product portfolio adding RF/IF signal acquisition, analog, digital I/O and synchro/resolver products for radar, software defined radio (SDR) and signal intelligence applications. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/485.html Charlotte, NC - February 14, 2008 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Inc. announced today that it has acquired the business and assets of Pentland Systems, Ltd for 2.3 million. Pentland develops and supplies high-performance signal acquisition solutions to the aerospace and defense markets. The business will be organized under Curtiss-Wright Controls' Embedded Computing group. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/484.html Leesburg, VA - January 21, 2008 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading supplier of rugged embedded boards and subsystems for the rugged deployed Aerospace and Defense market, has announced its first NVIDIA G73M-based graphics display control card, the XMC-710 XMC mezzanine module. This new COTS graphics card is the company's first designed to the new advanced XMC (VITA 42.3) open standard architecture, and is designed for use in VME, VPX and CompactPCI systems. Its rugged small form-factor XMC packaging, and advanced proprietary features, including unique video freeze detection capability, provide system integrators with a quickly integrated high performance graphics display controller ideal for space constrained deployed applications and technology refresh opportunities. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/481.html "Networking for Embedded Switches and Routers - A Primer" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-RTC-Nov-2007.pdf Leesburg, VA -– December 20, 2007 - Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense market, has announced the availability of the CHAMP-AV5, its first P.A. Semi 1682 Power Architecture-based DSP VME compute engine. The new 6U board combines the breakthrough performance and power savings of dual low-power 2 GHz dual-core 1682 processors with a reconfigurable Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA co-processor to achieve approximately 100 percent greater board-level performance-per-Watt compared to earlier DSP engine designs. The CHAMP-AV5 is ideal for upgrading existing systems that require significantly improved DSP performance. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/473.html Leesburg, VA, Calif. – December 20, 2007 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX products for the Aerospace and Defense market, and P.A. Semi, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company delivering the high-performance, low-power PWRficient processor family, today announced that they have partnered to deliver high performance, low-power rugged multicomputer VMEbus-based signal processing boards based on P.A. Semi’s dual-core PA6T-1682M PWRficient processor. The new CHAMP-AV5 with the low-power, high performance PWRficient processor delivers 100 percent better board-level performance-per-watt than the previous CHAMP board. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/474.html Leesburg, VA -- December 20, 2007 – Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense market, has announced the successful testing and qualification of its CHAMP-AV6 VPX digital signal processor engine over the full Level 200 conduction-cooled range of rugged temperature, shock, and vibration specifications. The CHAMP-AV6's successful test results deliver on the promise of VPX, the new generation of high performance, rugged open-architecture embedded board modules. The VPX standard, collaboratively developed by COTS industry leaders and prime military integrators, delivers a high-speed serial interconnect with a form-factor and feature set specifically designed to meet the most demanding aerospace and defense applications. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/475.html Leesburg, VA – December 18, 2007 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced the promotion of Tom Quinly to the position of Senior Vice President, Curtiss-Wright Controls. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/472.html Leesburg, VA – December 10, 2007 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading supplier of rugged embedded boards and subsystems for the Aerospace and Defense market has announced the PMC-110 CryptoNet Security PMC, its first rugged embedded security module. The PMC-110 enables system designers to quickly and easily add advanced network security functionality to VME, VPX, CompactPCI and other host embedded boards that provide a PMC mezzanine site. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/470.html Leesburg, VA - December 10, 2007 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced the new SVME-1900, a single 6U VME single board computer featuring two independent Intel Core Duo processor-based compute platforms, each running at speeds of 1.67 GHz. The SVME-1900 speeds and simplifies the integration of high performance x86 processing while reducing system slot count for multiple processors. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/471.html Leesburg, VA - November 27, 2007 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading manufacturer of Physical Layer Switching solutions, and Sigma Technologies and Resources, a leading supplier of testing technologies for networking, security and wireless, today announced that they have partnered to offer integrated physical layer switch and test automation software solutions for enterprise network lab automation applications. Sigma announced that it has developed software libraries to integrate its SigmationTF test automation software with the Curtiss-Wright GLX family of switches, including the GLX4000 series of non-blocking, multi-protocol physical layer switches. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/465.html "Rugged, Mission-critical COTS Reliability Based on Physics of Failure" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-VMEbus-Oct-2007.pdf "Military Technology Insider - Packaging Innovation Continues to Push the Limits" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-VMEbus-Oct-2007-MTI.pdf "Riding the Next Wave of Embedded Multicore Processors" http://www.ecnmag.com/Riding-the-Next-Wave-of-Embedded-Multicore-Processors.aspx?terms= "Error-Free Data Acquisition and Archival for High-Bandwidth Military Applications" http://www.defensetechbriefs.com/content/view/1145/34/ Dayton, OH -- October 25, 2007 - Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has introduced a new rugged high performance, quad channel Serial Front Panel Data Port card that delivers sustained data rates up to 247 MB per second on each of its four channels. The new FibreXtreme SL100/SL240 Serial FPDP card, based on Altera’s Stratix II GX FPGAs, connects distributed devices through a highly specialized communications protocol (VITA 17.1-2003) optimized for maximum data throughput. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/458.html "3U VPX: Rugged, High-Performance Small Form-Factor COTS Comes of Age" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-RTC-Sep-2007.pdf Leesburg, VA - October 15, 2007 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the aerospace and defense market, has announced that it will partner with Seaweed Systems Inc. to combine Seaweed’s market-leading SeaWind family of X/OpenGL graphics software drivers and its own value-added graphic software IP to enable customers to more easily and efficiently take complete advantage of the full capabilities of Curtiss-Wright’s embedded graphics hardware offerings. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/458.html "Line Replaceable Modules Speed Field Maintenance" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-BoardsSolutions-Oct-2007.pdf "Embedded Modules Wrestle with Cooling Challenges" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-COTS-Journal-Aug-2007.pdf Leesburg, VA - October 1, 2007 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, and VPX products, has announced the availability of the XMC-442, its first Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA-based XMC module (VITA 42) compute engine. The XMC-442 is designed for demanding, high-performance signal and image processing applications including radar, sonar, and signal intelligence. It is Curtiss-Wright’s first module to feature the Virtex-5 SXT, the largest, highest-performance DSP-focused FPGA available from Xilinx. With software driver and IP development support from Curtiss-Wright’s Continuum FXtools developer’s kit, the XMC-442 significantly speeds and simplifies the development of custom FPGA designs. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/453.html "Power Architecture’s Evolution Provides DSP Advantages" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-VMEbus-Aug-2007.pdf "Military Technology Insider - Future Combat Systems to Field Network Attached Storage" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-VMEbus-Aug-2007-MTI.pdf Leesburg, VA - August 9, 2007 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, and CompactPCI products, has announced that Tilcon Software has expanded its support of Curtiss-Wright hardware by offering their EVE user interface engine for use on the rugged dual-PowerPC-based SVME/DMV-183 6U VME single board computer when combined with the SPMC/DPMC-704 Graphics PCI Mezzanine Card. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/443.html "REDI for VPX?" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-New-Electronics-Jul-2007.pdf "RTC Interviews Tom Quinly, CEO, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-RTC-Apr-2007.pdf Leesburg, VA – July 23, 2007 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has announced the first high-density 6U VPX Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) multilayer switch/router board designed for rugged embedded aerospace and defense applications. http://www.cwcembedded.com/0/62/442.html "Time-to-Market, Lifecycle, and RoHS Top Industry Concerns: Question and Answer with CWCEC’s Lynn Patterson" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-VMEbus-Jun-2007.pdf "Military Technology Insider - Physical Layer Switches Ready for Deployment" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-VMEbus-Jun-2007-MTI.pdf "VPX Aids Development of Next-Gen SIGINT Systems" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-COTS-Journal-Jun-2007.pdf "3U VPX boards: Small form factor meets high performance/high bandwidth" http://electronicproducts.com/ShowPage.asp?FileName=fa-curtiss-3uvpx.apr2007.html "Emerging Trends in Mil/Aerospace Embedded Systems: The new VPX backplane architecture, multi-core processors and the emergence of FPGA-based systems" http://www.ecnmag.com/article.aspx?id=140341 "Designing, Analyzing and Testing for Shock and Vibration Environments" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-PKG-Magazine-May-2007.pdf "Optimizing Data Recorder System Architecture" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-RTC-May-2007.pdf "VPX: The Rugged Bus Architecture for Embedded Military Applications" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-Defense-Tech-Briefs-April-2007.pdf Leesburg, VA - May 31, 2007 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products for the aerospace and defense markets, has launched Continuum Insights™, a new suite of GUI-based software tools designed to ease and optimize the development of application software for multi-computer embedded systems. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-Continuum-Insights-05-31-07.pdf "Integrating FPGAs and Switched Fabrics for Application Acceleration" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-VMEbus-Apr-2007.pdf "Open Source is the Future for Software Development Platforms" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-VMEbus-Apr-2007-MTI.pdf Dayton, OH -- May 24, 2007 – Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has introduced the new ET1000 Ethernet Port Card for use with its GLX4000 Physical Layer Switch products. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-ET1000-05-24-07.pdf Alameda, CA and Leesburg, VA – May 15, 2007 – Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization, and Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, the industry’s most comprehensive designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense market, today announced that Curtiss-Wright’s Linux Center of Excellence, located in San Diego, California, will support Wind River® General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition and the Wind River Real-Time Core for Linux solution as their standard Linux operating environments for use on the company’s x86-based platforms. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-Windriver-05-15-07.pdf Leesburg, VA – May 15, 2007 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX and CompactPCI products, has announced that it will partner with Seaweed Systems Inc. to make Seaweed’s market-leading SeaWind® OpenGL embedded graphics solutions available on high-performance embedded graphics platforms for the defense and aerospace market. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-Seaweed-05-15-07.pdf "FPGAs for Stream Processing: A Natural Choice" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-COTS-Journal-Apr-2007.pdf In this podcast we interview Michael Slonosky, Product Development Manager for CWCEC, who provides information on Curtiss-Wright's first VPX (VITA 46) and VPX-REDI (VITA 48) 3U single board computer, the VPX3-125. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/VPX3-125_Overview.m4a Leesburg, VA - April 19, 2007 -– Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has announced its most advanced Power Architecture™ (PowerPC™)-based rugged VME64x 6U single board computer (SBC), the SVME/DMV-184. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-184-04-19-07.pdf Leesburg, VA – April 19, 2007 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products for rugged defense and aerospace markets, has launched a new innovative, initiative to standardize Power Management features on its, highperformance embedded COTS single board computer (SBC) and DSP engine products. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-Power-Mgmt-04-17-07.pdf Leesburg, VA - April 5, 2007 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has introduced the VPX6-215 ExpressReach™ module, a new high-performance rugged 6U VPX (VITA 46) and VPX-REDI (VITA-48) carrier card that features dual PMC/XMC expansion sites with PCI Express (PCIe) connectivity. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-VPX6-215-04-05-07.pdf "VPX-Based Systems Need Board-Level Power Management Solutions" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-RTC-Feb-2007.pdf Leesburg, VA - March 21, 2007 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX and CompactPCI products, has announced the availability of the CHAMP-FX2, its first FPGA-based VPX-REDI (VITA 46/48) compute engine. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-CHAMP-FX2-03-21-07.pdf "Military Technology Insider - Next-Generation Single Board Computers Reveal the Potential of the New VPX Standard" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-VMEbus-Feb-2007-MTI.pdf "VITA 46.9: Ensuring Mezzanine I/O Pinout Interoperability for VPX and VPX-REDI" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-VMEbus-Feb-2007.pdf Leesburg, VA - March 1, 2007 -– Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has introduced the SCP/DCP-124P, a new high performance rugged 3U CompactPCI (cPCI) single board computer (SBC). The SCP/DCP-124P, which supports PICMG 2.3-compliant mapping of PMC I/O through the backplane, is available in both conduction cooled and air-cooled versions and delivers a rich complement of I/O in a compact 3U form factor. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-124P-02-28-07.pdf Leesburg, VA - February 26, 2007 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, and CompactPCI products, has announced the availability of a new board support package (BSP) that supports Green Hills Software’s safe and secure INTEGRITY real-time operating system (RTOS). http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-183BSP-02-26-07.pdf Leesburg, VA – February 26, 2007 –Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, and CompactPCI products, announced that it has teamed with Green Hills Software to offer developers complete embedded hardware/software solutions based on Green Hills’ INTEGRITY® RTOS and the MULTI® development tool suite for high performance modular computing and integrated subsystem applications in the defense and aerospace markets. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-GHS-02-26-07.pdf "Military Technology Insider - Line Replaceable Modules to Drive New Standards" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-VMEbus-Dec-2006-MTI.pdf "Multicore Processors Energize the VME SBC Realm" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-COTS-Journal-Jan-2007.pdf Leesburg, VA - February 5, 2007 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX and CompactPCI products, has announced the VPX3-125, its first VPX (VITA 46) single board computer (SBC) available in a compact and lightweight 3U form factor. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-125-02-02-07.pdf Leesburg, VA – January 18, 2007 – EDN magazine has named Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computer’s groundbreaking CHAMP-AV6 VPX/VPX-REDI digital signal processor (DSP) card to the 2006 list of winners in its annual Hot 100 Products issue. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-EDN-Hot-100-01-18-07.pdf Long Beach, CA - Bus and Board Conference – January 15, 2007 – Launching what it describes as “the new era of VPX computing,” Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing presented the first public demonstration of an embedded system based on the new high-bandwidth VPX (VITA 46) open architecture bus standard at the Bus and Board Conference, Long Beach, CA on January 14, 2007. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-VPX-01-15-07.pdf Long Beach, CA - Bus and Board Conference - January 15, 2007 -Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has announced the availability of the VPX 6-Slot Lab Chassis, a new 6-slot VPX and VPX-REDI (VITA 46/VITA 48) chassis, designed to ease the development of software for embedded systems based on the new high bandwidth VPX standards. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-Hybricon-01-15-07.pdf Leesburg, VA – January 15, 2007, -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing’s Dayton Group has announced the availability of the SDRxR, a new Serial FPDP (SFPDP)-based streaming data recorder. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-SDRxR-01-15-07.pdf Leesburg, VA – January 15, 2007, -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has introduced the FX400 Dual-Channel (DC), a new dual 4.25 Gbps channel Fibre Channel (FC) PMC card designed for demanding high-bandwidth data communications and storage applications. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-FX400-01-15-07.pdf Leesburg, VA – December 21, 2006, -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has introduced IPC 2.0, the latest version of its popular Inter-Processor Communications (IPC) software library for building high-performance multi-processor DSP VPX and VPX/REDI-based (VITA 46/VITA 48) platforms employing switched interconnect technology. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-IPC-SRIO-12-21-06.pdf "Ethernet, Serial RapidIO, and PCIe Drive New Military Architectures" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-MILCOTS-Nov-2006.pdf "Military Technology Insider - FPGA Adoption for Sensors is Here Today: Reconfigurable Computing Still Waits in the Wings" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-VMEbus-Systems-Oct-2006-MTI.pdf "An Introduction to VPX: VPX Extends VME in NextGen Mil Systems" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-VMEbus-Systems-Oct-2006.pdf Leesburg, VA – December 13, 2006 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX and CompactPCI products, has announced the availability of conduction-cooled rugged versions of its popular CHAMP-FX digital signal processor 6U VME64x and VITA-41 engines, making this dual-FPGA board ideal for demanding signal processing applications that require survivability in harsh environments. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-CHAMP-FX-12-13-06.pdf Leesburg, VA – December 13, 2006 – Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX and CompactPCI products, has announced that its groundbreaking new CHAMP-AV6 VPX/VPX-REDI digital signal processor card is shipping to defense and aerospace customers for use in a variety of high-end applications including a ground-based defensive aid sensor system, next generation ground and air-borne radars, and signal intelligence platforms. Curtiss-Wright is delivering both boards and integrated VPX development systems to these customers. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-CHAMP-AV6-12-13-06.pdf Leesburg, VA December 13, 2006 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading manufacturer of optical switching solutions, and EdenTree Technologies, innovator of software solutions for lab management and test automation, today announced an expansion of their partnership to provide integrated solutions for network lab automation. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-Edentree-12-13-06.pdf "This informative video provides insight into how Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing delivers technology that can endure the high reliability acid test of operating in the battlefield, while catching a glimpse of the latest and greatest in advanced packaging trends that push the limits of defence electronics." http://www.cwcembedded.com/video/BR_CW_HRv04.wmv "The Next-Generation of High Performance Backplane Architecture" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-Military-Electronics-VPX-Series-2006.pdf "The 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet Ripple Effect" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-RTC-September-2006.pdf "VPX Standard is Near to Completion" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-EPD-September-2006.pdf "Board Vendor FPGA Toolkits Make or Break Your Project" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-MES-August-2006.pdf Leesburg, VA - October 17, 2006 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX and CompactPCI products for the defense and aerospace market, has announced that it will support the new Xilinx (NASDAQ: XLNX) Virtex™-5 LXT field programmable gate array (FPGA) family with a range of board level products based on the new components. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-Xilinx-10-17-06.pdf Leesburg, VA - October 9, 2006, -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has introduced a new Embedded Linux Development Kit, the ELDK Linux 2.6.x, that simplifies the development of Linux application software applications for use with the company’s most popular high performance VME and CompactPCI single board computers (SBCs) and DSP engines. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-ELDK-10-09-06.pdf Leesburg, VA—October 6, 2006 – Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has announced that it has enhanced its support for Wind River’s VxWorks®/Tornado™ real-time software development environment with the release of a new VxWorks 6.3 board support package (BSP) and driver suite for its popular CHAMP-AV IV quad PowerPC 6U VME digital signal processing (DSP) engine. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-VxWorks-AV4-10-06-06.pdf Leesburg, VA – October 6, 2006, -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has introduced IPC 1.6, a new updated version of its popular Inter-Processor Communications (IPC) software library for building high-performance multi-processor applications employing switched interconnect technology. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-IPC-10-06-06.pdf Leesburg, VA - October 6, 2006 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX and CompactPCI products, has announced the SVME/DMV-1901, its first 6U VME single board computer to feature the Intel® Core™ Duo processor running at speeds of 1.67 and 2.0 GHz. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-1901-10-06-06.pdf "Curtiss Wright Controls Embedded Computing is now adding Pentium technology from Intel to its existing line of high performance ruggedized single board computers. With Intel’s Core Duo processor and Curtiss Wright’s new 1201 single board computer this combination promises to deliver a superior solution for embedded defence application environments. Join Jason Smith, Product Marketing Manager for the SCP/DCP-1201 and Babu Narasimhan, Segment Marketing Manager for Intel's Infrastructure Process division, as they discuss this new entry into the embedded marketplace." http://www.cwcembedded.com/video/BR_CW_Intel.wmv "Military Technology Insider - Mission-Critical, Solid State Storage" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/VMEbus-Systems-August-2006---MTI.pdf "Embedded Designers Embrace Intel’s Multiple Core Processors" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-ECE-July-2006.pdf Leesburg, VA – September 15, 2006 - Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading manufacturer of optical switching solutions, today announced a partnership with Opticomm Corporation, a leading manufacturer of professional video, audio and data fiber optic communication systems. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-CW-Opticomm-09-15-06.pdf Leesburg, VA – September 7, 2006 - Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX and CompactPCI products, has announced the new PowerMatrix™ family of multi-processor systems. These fully configured, high performance/high density systems offer a wide range of configuration flexibility with versions supporting from 10 to 48 processors. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-PowerMatrix-09-07-06.pdf "Ethernet in the Battlespace: Defense Platforms Get Ready for IPv4/v6" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-COTS-Journal-July-2006.pdf "Understanding the Elements of Ruggedization" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-MILCOTS-July-August-2006.pdf Leesburg, VA - August 3, 2006 - Curtiss-Wright Embedded Computing announced that it has selected Datalight’s FlashFX Pro® flash media manager for its Continuum Software Architecture (CSA) initiative. This combined solution will be integrated across Curtiss-Wright’s core product lines, including all single board computer and quad processing product lines, and will be deployed in Q4 2006. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-Datalight-08-03-06.pdf Leesburg, VA - June 30, 2006 -- Enabling the vision of networked defense platforms within the Global Information Grid (GIG), Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has announced the embedded military and defense industry’s densest 6U VME64x SVME/DMV-682 FireBlade Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) multilayer switch. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-FireBlade682-06-30-06.pdf Leesburg, VA - June 30, 2006 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has significantly boosted the signal processing performance of its industry leading CHAMP-AV IV VME quad PowerPC DSP engine with the addition of FreeScale’s most advanced 1.25 GHz MPC7447/7448 PowerPC processors. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-CHAMPAV4-06-30-06.pdf Leesburg, VA - June 29, 2006, -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has announced the availability of a new family of single, dual and quad-channel Serial FPDP data recorders. The SDR1L, SDR2L, and SDR4L COTS-based data recorders will support data streams at rates up to 245MB/s per channel. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-SDRxL-06-29-06.pdf LEESBURG, VA – June 28, 2006 Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME and CompactPCI products for the defense and aerospace markets, today introduced an innovative new Continuum Software Architecture™ (CSA), which will help to reduce its customers’ development, integration, life-cycle maintenance and support costs. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-CSA-06-28-06.pdf "XMCs Bring Digital Video Standards to High-Performance Applications" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-RTC-June-2006.pdf "Military Technology Insider - Semiconductor Processing Outstrips Processor Architecture" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-VMEbus-Systems-June-2006-MTI.pdf "Improving Interoperability with a Common Software Architecture" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-MILCOTS-May-2006.pdf "FPGA-Based Development for Defense and Aerospace Applications" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-COTS-Journal-May-2006.pdf LEESBURG, VA – May 16, 2006 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX and CompactPCI products, has announced the PBOD, a new Flash Disk PMC or XMC card that delivers up to 64 Gbytes of high-speed storage. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-05-16-06-PBOD.pdf LEESBURG, VA - May 16, 2006 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME and CompactPCI products, has announced the S/DCP3-1201, the industrys first 3U CompactPCI single board computer (SBC) to feature Intel’s 1.67 GHz (@ 15W TDP) Core™ Duo processor. http://allgadgetsreviewed.com/sanyotablet.html "Image Fusion: Shared Memory Supports Flexible, Multiple Sensor Imaging Systems" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-ECD-April-2006.pdf LEESBURG, VA - May 16, 2006 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME products, has introduced three new single and dual processor VMEbus single board computers (SBCs), Manta/61x, Raptor/55x and Falcon/51x, that offer functional compatibility and competitive performance to Motorola Embedded Communications Computings (MECC) legacy single processor MVME5100, MVME5500 and MVME6100 products. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-05-16-06-Motorola-MEECC.pdf "Tackling Challenging Avionics Mission Computing Applications with VPX (VITA 46)-based Systems" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-VMEbus-Systems-April-2006-SD.pdf LEESBURG, VA - May 16, 2006 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a division of Curtiss-Wright Controls, and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME and CompactPCI products for commercial and rugged grade COTS computing solutions, has launched a major expansion of its single board computer (SBC) product line based on Intel Core Duo processors. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-05-16-06-CoreDuo.pdf "Designing a COTS Liquid-Cooled Chassis" http://www.milcotsdigest.com/Articles/2006/April/Curtiss/default.htm LEESBURG, VA - May 1, 2006 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has announced Osiris, a new high-performance, dual channel radar interface board. Osiris, available in PMC mezzanine card or half-length PCI card formats is a cost-effective, open standard-based radar signal processing solution ideal for use in COTS VME and CompactPCI embedded systems (PMC version) or in PC-based workstations (PCI version). http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-Osiris-05-01-06.pdf "Military Technology Insider - Time To Be Thinking About Middleware" http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/Article-VMEbus-Systems-April-2006-JW.pdf LEESBURG, VA - May 1, 2006, -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, has introduced a new hot-swappable 10Gb/s Fibre Channel/Ethernet/iSCSI card, the RT10000, designed for use in Curtiss-Wrights space-saving 144 and 288 port GLX4000 Physical Layer Switch products. The RT10000 provides a cost-effective modular method of scaling the high density GLX4000 switch to match specific network requirements. http://www.cwcembedded.com/documents/contentdocuments/PR-RT10000-05-01-06.pdf