It's the Final Countdown...

Its the final week of the Dream Marketing Defence & Aerospace Roadshow, and we've had a great start at BAE Systems, Airbus and Rolls Royce in Bristol.

The vehicle has just opened it's doors at L3 Comms in Tewkesbury, and Tim is on site ready to speak to visitors about all the lovely hardware we're displaying, including embedded modules from Extreme Engineering based on the 4th Generation Intel Core i7 ‘Haswell’ processor. There are a variety of form factors and technologies, ranging from XMC graphics cards to embedded FPGA board-level solutions from some of our franchised product lines:

• BittWare – Industry leading COTS signal processing boards and systems based on the latest FPGA technology from Altera
• Dave – Small form factor rugged embedded CPU modules, Computer-On-Modules and systems based on ARM and PowerPC architectures
• Ecrin Systems – Mil-COTS systems designed around building blocks from Open Standard form factors including PICMG 1.3 and ATX
• Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) - High-performance single board computers (SBCs), telecom modules, serial I/O and test fixtures
• General Standards – High Performance Analog I/O, Digital I/O and Serial I/O Bus Interface Solutions
• Tech Source - XMC rugged graphics, video capture and video streaming products for avionics, military and Air Traffic Control
• Trenton Systems – Rugged rackmount computer systems for military and aerospace, high performance video & graphics and data storage applications

Robbie will be at Agusta Westland tomorrow from 9.30 to 2pm for the penultimate day of the Roadshow. For more information please contact the Sarsen office - info@sarsen.net

Defence and Aerospace Roadshow Confirmed Schedule

The schedule for the Dream Marketing Defence & Aerospace Roadshow has been confirmed.

Sarsen will be visiting all of the sites on the list, sharing some exciting technology from BittWare, Dave, Extreme Engineering, General Standards, Tech Source and Trenton Systems.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Mon 16th Sep	- BAE Systems Barrow
Tues 17th Sep	- Rolls-Royce - Derby
Wed 18th Sep	- Rolls Royce - Derby
Thur 19th Sep	- Selex ES - Basildon
Fri 20th Sep	- Safran Power - Pitstone
Mon 23th Sep	- Messier Dowty - Gloucester *TBC
Tues 24th Sep	- GE Aviation - Cheltenham
Wed 25th Sep	- Cobham Mission Systems - Wimborne
Thur 26th Sep	- QinetiQ - Boscombe Down
Fri 27th Sep	- General Dynamics - Newport
Mon 30th Sep	- BAE/Airbus - Filton
Tues 1st Oct	- Rolls Royce - Bristol
Wed 2nd Oct	- L-3 Comms - Tewkesbury
Thur 3rd Oct	- Agusta Westland - Yeovil

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Giving VMEBUS a new lease of life with the 4th Generation Intel Core i7 Haswell processor

VMEBUS is a 30 year old technology that has seen a rise in popularity recently, partly thanks to customers looking to refresh legacy systems rather than invest money in newer technology.

Far from seeing VME as on old technology, Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) offers Intel VME, PowerPC VME, and QorIQ VME Single Board Computers (SBCs) and carrier cards for embedded computing applications.

With both air-cooled and conduction-cooled boards, these products can be applied to a wide variety of embedded applications across military, communications, and commercial/industrial markets. X-ES have gone as far as to incorporate the new 4th generation Intel® Core™ i7 Haswell processor onto a 6U VME SBC.

The XCalibur4530 provides up to 32 GB DDR3L-1600 ECC SDRAM in two separate channels, two PrPMC/PrXMC slots, and up to 64 GB of NAND flash. The XCalibur4530 also hosts numerous I/O ports, including Gigabit Ethernet, UAB, SATA, graphics, mezzanine I/O, and RS-232/422/485 through the backplane connectors.

If you’re looking to refresh a legacy design, or if VME is simply your favourite and you can’t bear to look at another technology, give us a call – we can offer a range of form factors and technologies, including the new 4th Gen Core i7 processor.

Contact us on +44 1672 511166 or email us – info@sarsen.net

X-ES Announces 4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Support Across Seven Industry Standard Form Factors

It's official. You heard it here first....

Our friends at Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc. (X-ES) have introduced their new family of SBCs based on the 4th generation Intel® Core™ i7-4700EQ processor (formerly codenamed "Haswell").

We are all very excited about this news, as the 4th Gen Intel Core i7 processor has some serious advantages, including increased raw processing performance per watt, hardware-based memory encryption with Intel® AES New Instructions (AES-NI), and increased floating-point and integer performance utilising Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2.0 (AVX 2.0). The GPU has also been enhanced, adding additional execution units and up to a 24% increase in raw performance.

If that isn't enough for you, the 4th generation Intel Core i7 processor also supports OpenCL 1.2, allowing it to perform as a general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU).

One size doesn't fit all...
Variety is the spice of life, so X-ES has incorporated the new Intel Core i7 processor on a range of form factors, including 3U VPX, 6U VPX, XMC, 3U CompactPCI, 6U CompactPCI, 6U VME, and COM Express. The new line up of conduction and air-cooled 4th generation Intel Core i7 products from X-ES includes the XCalibur4500 6U cPCI, the XCalibur4530 6U VME, and the XCalibur4540 6U VPX modules, which maximise I/O capabilities and add configurability with two PMC/XMC sites.

They have also introduced the XPedite7570 3U VPX and XPedite7530 3U cPCI modules - ideal for space constrained aerospace and vehicle platforms that require maximum processing performance and I/O capabilities, with the flexibility of PMC and XMC support. For applications with extreme size, weight, and power (SWaP) challenges X-ES also offers the XPedite7501 XMC and XPedite7550 Rugged COM Express modules.

XCalibur4530 from X-ES

For more information about the new boards from X-ES, featuring the 4th Generation Intel Core i7 processor, please give us a call on +44 1672 511166, or email the sales team at sales@sarsen.net