Paradigm shifts in technology initiatives don’t come without their skeptics, as is the case with the DoD’s Hardware/Software Convergence Initiative. Aimed at developing a common, modular hardware ...

For decades, open systems architectures and open standards have helped accelerate innovation to end users in aerospace and defense applications through the development of interfaces that are open, key ...

The U.S. Navy, always seeking paths to reduce the size, weight, and power (SWaP) of systems, took another step in that direction with the FlexVPX concept, which was developed at its U.S. Naval ...

Typically, the system designer breaks an application down into functional elements, and identifies functional blocks such as SBC, Switch and I/O boards. These boards or modules will then be uniquely ...