XPedite7470 Sandy Bridge Intel i7 VPX Board

The Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) Intel i7 VPX solutions include the XPedite7470 3U VPX-REDI single board computer based on the Sandy Bridge Intel Core i7 CPC and Cougar Point QM67 chip set. This board is very similar to the XPedite7370 and is similarly priced but obviously provides the power of the Sandy Bridge i7 processor. Drivers for VxWorks, QNX Neutrino, Green Hills Integrity, Linux and Windows are available. Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) XPedite7470

Defence & Aerospace Technology Road Show 2010 - Day Six - SELEX Galileo - Luton

The Defence & Aerospace Technology Road Show will be at SELEX Galileo at Capability Green in Luton on Monday 13th September. This was a busy location for the road show last year and Nigel looks forward to meeting with a number of key contacts at the site to discuss the latest FPGA and Intel i7 VPX & XMC COTS solutions we have to offer.

Defence & Aerospace Road Show 2010 - Day One

The turn out for the Defence & Aerospace Road Show at SELEX Galileo in Basildon was good and Nigel met with a number of the engineering and management team. The Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) Intel i7 VPX format board solutions was the product area of most interest.

Nigel also met an old collegue from his design engineering days at GEC-Marconi in Frimley that he had not seen for 26 years!

Extreme Engineering Solutions Launch New Web Site

Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) has launched their new website on July 29, 2010. The new features of the X-ES website include a search function, easy navigation, improved product search capability, ability to subscribe/unsubscribe to e-newsletters, the ability to follow X-ES on Twitter, and a link to SupportNet, the extranet website that provides customers with access to technical documentation, software, and ECOs.

X-ES, a leader in the design, manufacture, and support of embedded computing solutions for compute-intensive military, communications, commercial, and industrial applications, provides a product portfolio of commercial-grade to fully ruggedized boards and systems. Our specialty is custom services, from modified COTS to full-scale custom designs, getting you the technology you need as soon as possible. All of our products are backed by an unparalleled level of responsive customer support.

Interesting Post - Trends in Microprocessors - High-end Military Applications Are Beginning To Shift To Intel

An interesting post from John Keller published on Miltary & Aerospace Electronics web site discusses the processor trends in the defence market place. "When it comes to military embedded computing, basically only two microprocessor manufacturers slug it out for the lion’s share of the defense and aerospace embedded computer market for applications like radar processing. While Freescale has been this market’s 500-pound gorilla for some time, Intel’s latest introduction of its Core i7 microprocessor in January is tipping the defense embedded systems community on its head in a transformation the likes of which seasoned observers have not seen in years."

Read more on the Military & Aerospace Electronics web site.

Webcast: The Intel Core i7 microprocessor in aerospace and defence applications

Ben Klam, Vice President Engineering, of Extreme Engineering Solutions is one of the presenters for the Military & Aerospace Electronics Webcast on Wednesday May 19th. The topic of the webcast is "The Intel Core i7 microprocessor in aerospace and defence applications".

The Intel Core i7 microprocessor is taking the aerospace and defense embedding computing industry by storm, largely do to the floating-point processing capability of the i7 device. While Intel is incorporating floating-point processing in the Core i7 to enable desktop and laptop computers to handle video faster and more efficiently, the military embedded computing community looks to floating point for digital signal processing (DSP) to crunch the complex and fast-moving data streams from radar, sonar, electronic warfare, and signals intelligence systems, as well as for advanced video processing. This Webcast features presentations from prominent embedded computing companies using the Core i7 processor that outline the most promising aerospace and defense applications for the chip, as well as from Intel, the designer and manufacturer of the Core i7.

You can register for this webcast at: Intel Core i7 Webcast