The typical military or industrial program can have a deployed life measured in decades. As such, long term cost of ownership is a critical consideration. Abaco minimizes this in two important ways.
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The first is that we have a 30-year track record of developing new products that are form-, fit- and function-compatible with their predecessors – allowing you to upgrade with minimal platform disruption at minimal cost.
The second is our comprehensive, field-proven Product Lifecycle Program (PLM). PLM offers a flexible, comprehensive approach to mitigating the impact of obsolescence, enabling defensive, progressive and mixed strategies; and extended support, including repair.
Not all single board computer companies manufacture exclusively in-house. Production in our own plants guarantees that our products cannot suffer from the insertion of parts that can potentially pose a security risk.
To maximize security and reliability, Abaco has a sophisticated counterfeit parts avoidance procedure.
A component source approval process can also provide users with exceptional security and reliability concerns with additional peace of mind.
In the SWaP-constrained environments of today’s military and commercial platforms, heat management plays a vital role not only in maximizing reliability but also in delivering optimum performance.
Through its participation in DARPA projects, Abaco has long been an innovator in thermal management, with unique technologies such as Nano Thermal Interface, Thermal Management Technology Bridge and Thermal Ground Plane.
Abaco has begun to transition its single board computer range to the use of heat pipes. Heat pipes have been demonstrated to allow sufficient additional cooling beyond traditional methods that processors can be run at high temperatures yet maintain their peak performance, delivering application predictability.
Secure applications require the support of secure hardware on which to run. The optimum security response starts at the lowest level within the system, and provides the solid foundation on which to build.
Our single board computers include a range of security features designed to assist with user-defined anti-tamper and information assurance strategies, such as volume protection, anti-tamper sensory technologies, encryption and memory sanitization. Also included are trusted boot, an inherently secure FPGA solution (SmartFusion2 from Microsemi), and support for Intel’s Trusted Execution Technology.
For companies who have invested significant time and effort in detailed system integration and validation, the opportunity to be an integral part of the configuration management/change approval process throughout the life of the program is an important part of their application risk-reduction strategy.
Abaco’s optional Configuration Management Service (CMS) enables customers to be either informed of the changes as they occur, or be party to approval of the changes to be implemented, and management of the configuration baseline.
A further option is ‘change approval’ which is designed for customers who, typically, have completed the development cycle, and are ready to deploy a solution and wish to baseline the configuration.
It is often the case that a supplier will take a product designed for commercial use in a benign environment, make changes – such as the addition of a heat sink – and declare it ‘rugged’.
At Abaco, ‘rugged’ is designed in from the outset. For the most robust reliability, for example, parts are soldered to the underlying printed circuit board – rather than being socketed. Parts are ‘de-rated’ in order to minimize system stress. Considerable ingenuity is applied to heat paths and the use of materials in order to maximize cooling.
And: every board is temperature tested prior to shipment. Abaco also offers extended testing services – such as shock and vibration – to customers with specific concerns.
Our range of single board computers leverages the technologies of industry leading companies including Intel and NVIDIA.
Long term availability of parts is vital for long term programs. With this in mind, Abaco uses only components for which the manufacturer has committed long term support – from Intel’s embedded computing range, for example.
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For many programs, ultimate performance is required. For others, minimal power consumption/heat dissipation are key. We offer a range of performance/watt options designed to deliver the optimum solution.
All of Abaco’s single board computers use either an Intel or PowerPC architecture multicore processor.
For the most demanding or specialist environments, multiprocessor boards are available that significantly enhance performance/slot or that are uniquely suited to applications such as graphics, video, artificial intelligence and autonomy.
Combining two Intel Core i7 processors, for example, delivers up to 665 GigaFLOPS of performance. For applications that can leverage the unique multi-core architecture of graphics processors, GPU and Intel processors are combined for a remarkable 1.4 TeraFLOPS of throughput.
AXIS is a complete development environment designed to minimize the cost, risk and time-to-deployment of scalable and portable high performance embedded computing solutions. It provides a complete set of powerful, flexible, intuitive tools and libraries that support the entire development process, from design through debugging, optimization and testing.
The suite includes an extensive range of tools, including AXIS ImageFlex, an image processing and visualization toolkit; the AXIS Lib high performance vector math, DSP and linear algebra library; AXIS EventView, a high precision event analyser; and AXIS View, which allows a developer to understand how hardware resources are being used in real time.
Customer support for AXIS is provided by our HPEC Innovation Center.
Abaco’s advanced Deployed Test capability is the result of 30 years of continuous development – and continues to be enhanced. With two components – Built-in Test (BIT) and Background Condition Screening (BCS), it is highly configurable completely operating system-independent.
BIT tests and collates results for all Abaco boards/daughter boards connected in the system.
Users are able to balance the best depth of coverage for the required maximum execution time, giving a best fit to the application circumstances. Intrusive testing provides the highest possible coverage and confidence, while Fast BIT and Fast Start provide the flexibility to respond to specific requirements.
UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. – Pentek Inc. in Upper Saddle River, N.J., is introducing the Quartz model Zynq UltraScale+ radio frequency system-on-chip (RFSoC) 3U VPX board and the model Zynq UltraScale+ QuartzXM eXpress module for aerospace and defense applications.
The Quartz model Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC 3U VPX board and the model Zynq UltraScale+ QuartzXM eXpress module support wideband RF analog I/O signals with eight 4 GHz A/D converters, eight 6.4 GHz D/A converters, and multi-core ARM processors.
For 3U VPX systems, the Quartz model uses Pentek's Navigator design suite to speed software and IP development. For small- or high-density deployed systems, the same IP and software can transfer to the model QuartzXM eXpress embedded computing module to support applications that require custom-form-factors and small size, weight, and power consumption (SWaP).
The Pentek Quartz architecture embodies a streamlined approach to field-programmable gate array (FPGA) boards, simplifying the design to reduce power and cost, while still providing high-performance FPGA resources.
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Designed to work with Pentek's Navigator design suite tools, the combination of Quartz and Navigator offers users a path to developing and deploying FPGA software and IP for data and signal processing.
The Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC chip integrates eight RF-class A/D and D/A converters into the Zynq FPGA fabric and quad ARM Cortex-A53 and dual ARM Cortex-R5 processors, creating a multichannel data conversion and processing solution on one chip.
The Quartz board architecture adds as much as 18 gigabytes of DDR4 SDRAM; clocking for single-board and multi-board synchronization; signal integrity connectors for RF inputs and outputs; x8 PCI Express Gen 3 link; dual 100 Gigabit Ethernet optical interfaces or customer installed protocols; 12 LVDS general-purpose I/O pairs for specialized interfaces; QuartzXM eXpress module design for flexible deployment; factory-installed application IP for DRFM, high-speed data acquisition and radar; and Navigator design suite (BSP and FDK) for streamlined IP development.
For more information contact Pentek online at www.pentek.com.
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