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E-cast: Why Binary Scanning Is Critical For Securing Your Software Supply Chain
Cybersecurity threats are becoming increasingly prominent in embedded applications including automotive, medical, industrial, aerospace and defense. Securing these systems has become difficult due to dramatic increases in software complexity, often dr...
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E-cast: Plan With Confidence: Route to a Successful DO-178C Multi-Core Certification
You chose a multi-core processor platform for your next avionics system. Although this gives you a lot of potential benefits in terms of reduced costs, spares management and obsolescence, it also adds a layer of complexity in terms of safety certifica...
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E-cast: Benefits of GaN technology for Electronic Warfare and Radar Applications
The hottest RF and microwave technology in the military radar and electronic community continues to be Gallium Nitride (GaN). The industry is still getting educated on all the possibilities that GaN brings to the design table from a performance standp...
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E-cast: Leveraging Open Standards and C4ISR for Multi-domain Challenges in Modern Warfare
For any military, the key to victory is dominance in multiple battlefield domains -- ground, sea, air, space, and now cyber. To achieve that dominance militaries must leverage communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (...
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E-cast: Affordable Safety Critical Systems: The Basics
As R&D budgets are reduced, enabling flexibility and code reuse through the use of common building blocks across the enterprise are keys to greater affordability. These software components need to be modular, upgradeable and customizable to meet the ...
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E-cast: Solving Avionics Safety Certification Challenges for Modern Aircraft
Whether it's a commercial passenger jet, a general aviation aircraft, a military fighter jet, or combat helicopter, avionics technology continues to get more and more sophisticated and relies increasingly on the latest commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) ...
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E-cast: Leveraging Embedded Systems Solutions While Reducing SWaP for EW, SIGINT, and Radar Applications
As enemy threats become more complicated and sophisticated, there is within the Department of Defense (DoD) a demand for advanced RF and microwave solutions to counter those threats. Spectrum dominance, electronic warfare (EW), radar upgrades, and oth...
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E-cast: Avionics Safety Certification Challenges with UAVs
Unmanned aircraft, drones, remotely-piloted aircraft, or whatever one chooses to call them are increasing in number and often staying ahead of the regulatory bodies tasked with setting their safety standards. Compliance with FAA safety certification s...
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E-cast: Thermal Management Challenges in Modern Military Computer Systems
Designers of embedded computing systems for military applications such as avionics, electronic warfare, radar, etc., love the advantages modern processors and FPGAs bring them but continue to need innovative ways to deal with the extra heat these comp...
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E-cast: Enabling Open Architectures and Commonality in Military Sensor Systems
A demand for commonality is driving procurement and technology development within the Department of Defense (DoD). Commonality is enabled by open architectures and technology reuse across multiple platforms -- from radar to electronic warfare to ISR s...
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