Why Do We Ask for End User Statements?

The U.S. Government controls exports of sensitive equipment, software and technology as a way of promoting their national security interests and foreign policy objectives.

We work with a number of manufacturing partners based in the United States, and some of them make a practice of requesting End Use Statements for all international orders, and for all items, whether a license is technically required or not.

This includes items that are coded as EAR 99, which means that they are still subject to Export Administration Regulations, but they don't have an Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) on the Commerce Control List.

The majority of the boards and systems that we sell are considered 'dual-use', and do have an ECCN, rather than an EAR 99 classification, which is why our partners record the end user information for their products. By obtaining the "End User Statement" they are able to properly identify any license requirements and exceptions.

If you have any problems completing an End User Statement for one of our partners we are here to help. Please contact the team here on 01672 511166 and we can go through it with you step by step.

1553 Tutorial - Alta Data Technologies

Alta Data Technologies LLC (Alta) is a company dedicated to providing the best possible MIL-STD-1553 and ARINC-429/717 COTS communications products and service in the Aerospace Industry.





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Alta has designed a full line of PCI, PCI Express (PCIe) interface cards for almost any computer backplane. They also supply their own innovative real-time Ethernet connectivity devices.

Alta is the only COTS supplier to test 1553 card designs to SAE AS4111 Protocol Validation Tests, and they manufacture their products to the highest IPC-610 Class 3 standards using processes managed by an ISO9001 quality management system. All of this is backed up by their 5 year limited warranty – one of the best in the industry. Alta is fully supported in the UK by Sarsen Technology.

MIL-STD-1553

MIL-STD-1553 has had a long, popular life – and will continue to be supported for decades to come in new and legacy applications. Alta engineers and managers have been in the avionics industry since the early 1980’s and have worked on nearly every major avionics program.

They have put together a MIL-STD-1553 tutorial, designed to complement the referenced MIL HDBK 1553A Notice II (3572 downloads) document, which provides an excellent detailed review of the 1553 standard (MIL-HDBK-1553A Section 20 provides a summary of MIL-STD-1553B Notice 2).  Commercially available chip-sets and interface cards (like Alta’s) “off load” the protocol processing (protocol engine) so the engineer’s primary concern is design/integration of application software and cabling issues.

You can download the tutorial by clicking here. If you have any questions please get in touch with the Sarsen team - info@sarsen.net

New 3U VPX Rugged Video Capture Board from EIZO Rugged

EIZO Rugged Solutions has released the Condor GR4 3U VPX 3G-SDI capture board, an ultra-high performance rugged graphics/capture board with four 3G-SDI inputs and outputs.

• The MIL-STD-810G Condor GR4 3U VPX card is a single slot, SWaP-conscious card for ultra-high performance rugged ISR applications

The new graphics module is based on the NVIDIA® Quadro® P5000 and P3000 graphics processing units (GPUs) with 2,048 or 1,280 CUDA cores respectively and up to 6.4 TFLOPs shader performance.

Condor GR4 3U VPX Datasheet

The Condor GR4 is a single slot, SWaP-conscious card designed for today’s rugged Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) applications such as avionics, manned and unmanned video streaming and security/surveillance.

Selwyn L. Henriques, president and CEO of EIZO Rugged Solutions, commented, “The Condor GR4 3U VPX card is the perfect solution for today’s ISR market that is transitioning to 3G-SDI. Our ISR customers typically have 3-4 sensors per gimbal and have been demanding a single slot, SWaP-conscious card that does everything – ingest information from the sensors, output this high definition data over 3G-SDI, process it using the GPU and then encode each stream using the onboard H.265/H.264 encoder.

The Condor GR4 3U VPX offers four 3G-SDI inputs and four 3G-SDI outputs and a DisplayPort output. With NVIDIA GPUDirect™ Direct Memory Access (DMA) support, the captured video data is transferred directly into GPU memory for processing or display, both resulting in extremely low latency. The MIL-STD-810G compliant card supports PCI Express 3.0 (up to 8 lanes) and is available in conduction-cooled and air-cooled variants.

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For more information on the Condor GR4 3U VPX card or any other product from EIZO Rugged Solutions, please contact the Sarsen Technology team - info@sarsen.net