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Freescale QorIQ™ P4080-based VPX Single Board Computer Provides Trusted Computing Environment for Military & Aerospace Applications

Leesburg, VA (January 2010) –Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc. announced today that the VPX6-187 is a high performance rugged 6U VPX general purpose SBC using a Freescale QorIQ P4080 processor with support for eight 1.5 GHz Power Architecture™ processor cores along 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. By providing support for data, control and expansion plane interconnects, the VPX6-187 can be used in centralized, distributed, or hybrid switched backplane topologies.

Curtiss-Wright Controls Announces Support For OpenVPX™ Across Rugged Embedded Board/System Product Line

Leesburg, VA (October 2009) – Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed off-the-shelf (COTS) 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 (SBCs), DSP engines, network interfaces, storage solutions and other board and sub-system platforms.

BEAR expands product line with BE Series external switching power supplies

Phelps, NY - May, 2009 - BEAR Power Supplies has introduced an economical new line of external switching power supplies. The new BEAR BE Series external AC/DC power adapters are Energy Star qualified and factory-configurable for a wide range of commercial, industrial and medical instruments.

The BE Series includes wall-mount converters from 5 to 30 Watts, and desktop converters from 15 to 60 Watts. All have universal AC input and factory-configurable output voltage (single output from 3.3 VDC to 48 VDC). Users can specify almost any output connector including plugs, jacks and DIN connectors.

Hybricon and Curtiss-Wright Controls Are First to Demonstrate Live OpenVPX System at MILCOM Boston

Boston, MA - October, 2009 -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 and Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX and CompactPCI products and systems for the aerospace and defense market, 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 be easily supported with a different backplane.

Themis Computer Announces the Industry's First UltraSPARC® T2-Based Board to Utilize VITA-46 (VPX) and VITA-65 Backplane Standards

FREMONT, California -- December, 2009 --- Themis Computer® announces its new T2VPX™ high-performance, 6U VPX board computer. The T2VPX is the first member of the company's new family of VITA-46 compliant, board-level-computers. Themis' T2VPX supports the VITA-46 and VITA-65 standards, providing customers with next generation processing performance and high bandwidth serial switched fabrics.

The T2VPX board is the industry's first 6U board level computer based on the Sun Microsystems™ multi-core UltraSPARC T2® processor, continuing Themis' legacy of bringing high performance Solaris™ Operating System to demanding applications. Themis' T2VPX features a new system architecture that combines up to eight processor cores and 64 threads, with a VPX IO fabric. The T2VPX is ideal for compute-intensive military and aerospace applications requiring rugged computing solutions, beyond the reach of today's VME-64-based systems.

The T2VPX is based on the Sun UltraSPARC T2 CMT (chip multi-threading) processor, the industry's first "system on a chip" and runs both Linux and the Solaris 10 Operating System. Themis' new T2VPX board further proliferates Sun's advanced UltraSPARC T2 processor technologies into embedded computing markets. The T2VPX will be offered with 6 and 8 core processor options