Additional Information - MCOTS Equipment for UAV Applications
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Additional Information - MCOTS Equipment for UAV Applications |
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UAV's come in all sizes and present a number of engineering problems for systems designers. Size changes dramatically between aircraft such as Global Hawk down to small hand launched systems. Weight is critical and you are never given enough allowance. Performance is always restricted by size, weight and power availability. Lastly (and most importantly) environmental problems shock, vibration and temperature all contribute to the over all reliability of the system in field use. Many Engineers have found that going from prototype to actual reliable fielded system means a complete re-design.
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For UAV designers in Australia, Unitronix Pty Ltd supply a wide range of
rugged MILCOTs embedded computer products that are ideally suited to UAV
applications, in the air, or on the ground. These include, full MCOTS, conduction
cooled, advanced processor, systems based on 3U cPCI, 3U VXI, PC104. In
addition to CPU cards Unitronix specializes in high end sensor payloads
for video and image processing, Digital Radio and Software Defined Radio
modules, FPGA and DSP for Radar and EW, wireless communications links to
ground based stations, rugged disk drives, & aircraft power supplies. |
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Radio Modules, GPS, INUs on PC-104 from MicroBee Systems.
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Inertial Navigation Unit: The HG-1700-104 interface is a FPGA based SDLC interface for the Honeywell HG-1700 and HG-1900 Inertial Measurement Units (IMU). This utilizes a factory programmed CPLD configuration device, the FPGA configuration is loaded at runtime via a DOS application. All features are register based and can be IO mapped to ISA bus IO space via a config file. Message filters allow user to read the 600 Hz or 100 Hz messages separately or both. |
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GPS: MicroBee Systems now offers the Novatel Super Star II 5 Hz or OEMV-1 GPS in PC/104 format. Utilizing the XR16C2850 Dual 128 Byte FIFO UART this CPLD based module allows access to both the data port and differential correction port with a full 128 bytes of buffer space. This means just one interrupt per GPS message! In addition this unit offers features such as simple rotary switch address selection, a third external high speed 16C850 serial port, software control of GPS reset and 1PPS output signal manipulation.
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Wireless Serial Radio modem: PC-104, based on 16C550 UART, direct driver support for virtually all modern operating systems. Functions at 900MHz and 1.3GHz Military band.
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Example Application: The OVIWUN is the first unmanned aerial vehicles employing powered-lift technology. The intelligence resides inside its VersaLogic PC/104- Plus CPU, the Puma, which maintains the delicate thrust and angle balance used to control the vehicle. The vehicle needed an embedded solution with long-term availability and excellent Engineering support. VersaLogic's RoHS-compliant Puma platform was selected, it draws only 5W during operation and less then 800mW in standby mode. With 3 USB ports, 3 COM ports, an LPT port and a 10/100 Ethernet interface, the Puma is appropriate for light-weight, mobile applications where low-power is essential.
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The Puma GX500 CPU has an
impressive list of on-board features, including integrated high-performance
video with flat panel support, 10/100 Ethernet, four USB ports, three COM
ports, LPT port, and an IDE interface. A CompactFlash socket provides bootable
media storage, and TVS devices provide enhanced ESD protection on user I/O
ports. The Puma includes 256 MB of soldered-on, high-speed RAM for optimum
application performance. All Versalogic products are designed for high reliability
and long-term availability in applications with a fielded life of 5+ years. |
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PC/104 & PC/104-Plus ideal for small UAVs: VersaLogic's smallest form factor is ideal for specialized applications where space is at a premium. PC/104 is a self-stacking design that does not require a card cage or other interconnect support. With only 13.4 square inches of surface area, PC/104 SBC's are typically more costly to manufacturer or have less I/O capacity than larger formats. VersaLogic provides both PC/104 single board computers (which can be further expanded with PC/104 modules) and PC/104 add-on I/O modules. PC/104 products provide a single ISA bus connector that allows data transfer at about 8M bit/sec. PC/104-Plus products include both ISA and PCI bus connectors which support high speed I/O devices (such as video frame grabbers) with data transfers up to 133M byte/sec. |
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High End RF signals acquisition and transmission.
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RAD-2 digital receiver PMC: Leading solution for acquisition of high-speed analog signals in Radar, Software Radio and signal Intelligence applications. Dual 105MSPS analog acquisition channels at 14bit are augmented by substantial FPGA resources and up to 16 individual down-conversion channels provided by 4GC4016 down-converters. High-bandwidth transfer over 64-bit 66MHz PCI is enabled using powerful on-board DMA engines.
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| RAD-T2: Rugged PMC Dual 200MSPS DAC: Usable bandwidth, to 80MHz, flexible output signals, single tone or quadrature modulated, and a high SFDR all make the RAD-T2 transmitter ideal for modern Radar and Software Radio applications. The on-board FPGA resources provide the capability to add user defined, pre-reconstruction, signal processing (scrambling, coding). | RAD-PXR1: Rugged Dual 1GSPS ADC: With a Virtex 4 FX FPGA available for user programming, the RAD-PXR1 couples advanced low-power firmware DSP resources with a high-performance 1GHz ADC (NS ADC08D1000) onto a rugged, conduction-cooled form-factor. Features include 7.1ENoBs acquisition performance, multiple programmable acquisition modes and a flexible command & control API. | ||||
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SCP/DCP-124 3U cPCI 4778 PPC: Offering a full-speed onboard PMC site with unshared 64 bits of PMC IO, up to 2 Gigabit Ethernets, up to 3 serial channels (1 x RS-232, 2 x RS-422/485), up to 8-bit Discrete Digital I/O, and a Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 port. Two versions one bus controller, one peripheral only (124-P) | SCP/DCP-1201 Core2Duo 3U cPCI SBC: This single board computer can operate as a system controller, peripheral processor, or I/O processing node. With the addition of a SATA or USB hard drive and a PMC video card, the SCP/DCP-1201 becomes a full-featured platform. In addition to running Windows, the SCP/DCP-1201 runs both Solaris 10 and WindRiver GPP Linux 2.6 operating systems. | |||
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XMC-442 V5 FPGA: Combining the state-of-the-art Virtex-5 SXT processor from Xilinx with a rich array of memory and I/O, the XMC-442 offers designers a powerful, easy-to-use module for a wide range of applications in both benign and rugged environments. Ease-of-use is provided via the Continuum FXtools design kit for the XMC-442 which includes software drivers, a library of highly-optimized IP modules, a scriptable simulation test bench, reference designs, and full documentation. |
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Curtiss-Wright VPX3-125: combines the performance and the advanced
I/O capabilities of the PA Semi PWRficientTM PA6T-1682M processor with an
extensive I/O complement to provide a highly capable processing platform
for a wide range of embedded military/aerospace applications. Designed for
space constrained applications, the VPX3-125 represents the latest evolution
of rugged high-performance, highly integrated small form factor Single Board
Computers.
The VPX3-125's integral high-speed backplane and PMC/XMC connectivity allows for multi-GB/sec data flows from board-to-board through the backplane interface and from the backplane to PMC/XMC site supporting the acquisition, processing, and distribution of sensor data such as video, radar, and sonar data. A rich I/O complement includes two gigabit Ethernet ports, 4 serial channels, up to 8 bits of discrete digital I/O, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 port and a PMC/XMC site with 64 bits of IO mapped to the backplane. For more information please contact UNITRONIX |
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