Sarsen Technology and Annapolis Micro Systems Announce Partnership

Annapolis Micro Systems Announces the Appointment of Sarsen Technology Ltd as its Exclusive Distributor in the UK and Ireland

Sarsen Technology is pleased to announce that it has been named by Annapolis Micro Systems as their exclusive sales and marketing partner in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Based in Maryland, USA, Annapolis Micro Systems designs, manufactures, and programs high-performance COTS and modified COTS FPGA-based boards and systems for challenging data acquisition, digital signal processing, and data storage applications. Their designs maximise FPGA real estate and available pins per package to yield maximum performance as well as being rugged and reliable, meeting harsh environmental requirements.

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Nigel Norman, MD Sarsen Technology says, “With the addition of Annapolis to the product line Sarsen Technology is now positioned as a leading supplier of embedded COTS technology to all of the UK Mil/Aero primes.  Our key customers have been asking us for new and innovative FPGA solutions for synthetic aperture radar, software defined radio and signal intelligence applications.  The new generation of Xilinx RFSoC FPGA devices is especially exciting.  Annapolis Micro Systems has the design and manufacturing expertise to meet the technology needs of our most demanding customer applications.”

“Due to the Sarsen relationship, the UK and Ireland are poised to become our largest market outside North America,” says Noah Donaldson, Annapolis Micro Systems Chief Technology Officer. “Our partnership with Sarsen gives our UK and Ireland customers an experienced and knowledgeable local liaison for providing responsive technical service and support.”

Since their inception in 1982, Annapolis Micro Systems has become a leader in reconfigurable computing systems. Their products are designed for advanced HPC, ISR, and multi-function EW applications, including phased array radar, cybersecurity network processing, DRFM, beamforming, sensor processing, wireless communication, and radar signal processing.

For more information about the new relationship and how it could benefit your application please contact Sarsen Technology on +44 1672 511166, or email info@sarsen.net

Rapid Growth Fuels X-ES Move to New Corporate Headquarters

To accommodate their continuing growth, the lovely people at Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) have moved to a fabulous new corporate headquarters in Verona, WI.

Completed in September of 2018, the combined office and manufacturing space is located at 9901 Silicon Prairie Parkway, approximately six miles from the company’s previous headquarters in Middleton, WI.

The new 126,200 sq. ft. facility is a significant upgrade from the 50,000 sq. ft. Middleton facility. The new building offers more office space and improved amenities for employees and customers, including more than twice the meeting space.

The design by KEE Architecture features a central atrium and clerestory windows that provide abundant natural light to offices and common areas. The building is situated on a green and open 13.8 acres, leaving ample room to grow as the company continues to expand.

Nearly half of the new facility is devoted to a state-of-the-art manufacturing space, where X-ES performs final product assembly, integration, and testing.

The 60,000 sq. ft. manufacturing area is temperature-, humidity-, and ESD-controlled, and as part of this expansion X-ES has acquired 165 new workbenches, six new thermal chambers for temperature testing, and one new shaker for shock and vibration testing.


To achieve ambitious goals for long-term energy savings, X-ES worked with the Wisconsin Focus on Energy Business Incentive Program to incorporate equipment and practices that reduce energy waste, such as network lighting controls and energy-efficient heating and cooling equipment. The estimated electricity savings over the life of the equipment is more than eight million kilowatt hours, and the estimated lifecycle natural gas savings equates to almost 49,000 gallons of gasoline.

If you'd like more information about X-ES please send us an email. 

February 2019 - VersaLogic Announces Android Eval Kit with i.MX6 SBC and Touchscreen

VersaLogic's new Android Eval Kit provides an easy way to evaluate Arm/Android performance and includes everything needed to run the Android OS on a high-reliability embedded system, including a quad core i.MX6 Arm-based computer board and touch-screen display.

Tetra Android Eval Kit Datasheet

No additional carrier cards, companion boards, or other add-ons are needed. The Android Eval Kit is designed to save start-up time and allow the user to focus on their product development.

Ready to use
The VersaLogic Android Eval Kit is shipped with a complete Android OS image allowing users to start their evaluation within minutes of opening the box.

The kit includes:

• Tetra Single Board Computer (SBC) with Quad-core i.MX6
• 7" 1024 x 600 HDMI Touch-screen flat panel display
• Pre-loaded Android (Oreo 8.0) on MicroSD card
• Wall power adapter
• USB Hub
• Start-up guide
• Required cables

VersaLogic SBCs are engineered and validated for unforgiving environments. They are designed and tested for industrial temperature (-40° to +85°C) operation and meet MIL-STD-202 specifications for impact and vibration. Every component is carefully selected to ensure reliable operation in the field. VersaLogic single board computers are also designed for long-term availability (10+ year typical production lifecycle) and are supplied with an industry leading 5 year warranty.

The Android Eval Kit (P/N: VL-EVK-ARM-AND1) is available from Sarsen Technology for less than £500 (plus shipping).

For more information please contact Sarsen Technology - info@sarsen.net

Get to Know Alta Data Technologies - High Performance 1553 and ARINC Solutions

Since our inception in January 2000 we have partnered with many companies to provide exceptional services and technology, and to leverage the technical expertise of industry leaders in order to help our customers bring their own products to market. Alta Data is one of the latest additions to our product line.

Founded in 2007 Alta Data Technologies is committed to providing the best possible avionics products and service in the Aerospace industry. Their rugged MIL-STD-1553 hardware and ARINC interface modules & cards, powered by the AltaCore Protocol Engine, provide the most advanced product capabilities in the industry and are available for almost every form factor, including Ethernet modules.

Alta’s 1553 Products are Notice II and IV compliant, and the ARINC product line provides a software-selectable protocol interface for ARINC-429, 717, 419, 573 and 575.

Alta Data Products

The AltaAPI, AltaView and AltaRTVal software packages have been created to reduce integration and test efforts. Both the 1553 and ARINC cards include an Advanced Signal Capture of the Bus Waveform.

All products are designed and manufactured to the highest industry standards, including management processes certified to ISO 9001:2008, IPC Class 3 and ANSI S.20.20 certified manufacturing and innovative functional and JTAG testing methods. Alta also provides free, lifetime support and an industry-leading 5 year limited warranty with all of their cards.

Alta Data offers a huge selection of unique products. For a detailed review of your application please contact one of the engineering team to discuss your requirements.

Embedded World 2019 - Don't Miss These Exhibitors

embedded world 2019

From 26 - 28 February 2019 the focus will once again be on all things embedded.

The community comes together at the Nuremberg Exhibition Centre to shine a spotlight exclusively on embedded technologies. It reflects the trends in the sector with more than 1,000 exhibitors presenting state-of-the-art covering all aspects of embedded systems.

This year Sarsen Technology will be joining ECRIN Systems, VersaLogic and DAVE Embedded Systems to showcase all the latest and greatest innovations from these market leading companies.

For more information or to arrange a meeting at the show please get in touch - info@sarsen.net
 

Not To Be Missed

ECRIN Systems www.ecrin.com	Hall 2 - Stand 449	Founded in 1976, Ecrin Systems' core business is the integration of COTS building blocks from Open Standard form factors like PICMG 1.3 to achieve the best system performance at reduced cost and shortest time to market. Their Opale family of smart industrial PCs will be on display, alongside their VPX COTS Boards, Mil-COTS and rugged systems.
VersaLogic www.versalogic.com	Hall 3 - Stand 257	VersaLogic Corporation is the trusted name in embedded computer products. Featuring 5 to 10 year availability, -40 to +85° C operating temperature, Mil Standard 202G shock and vibration testing, and outstanding US-based support, VersaLogic products are ideal for critical applications that value ruggedness, reliability and long life. VersaLogic has a host of new technology to showcase at Embedded World, as well as some of their tried and tested boards and solutions including their Zebra ARM based i.MX6 board, which was recognided by EETimes.com as one of the top Single Board Computers of 2018!
DAVE Embedded Systems www.dave.eu	Hall 4 - Stand 481	DAVE Embedded Systems is a well-established Italian company, focussed on the design of highly complex miniaturised embedded electronic systems. Join DAVE at embedded world where they will be showcasing their past and present solutions and expaining their additional support services in detail. Their latest technology innovation is a new System on Module (SoM) based on NXP i.MX8 which will be introduced for the first time at the show.

Zero Packet Loss Processing for Government Security Applications

Government market sectors like cyber security, intelligence, surveillance and secure communications have become increasingly important in recent times. They also come with a unique set of challenges when it comes to protection from criminal activity taking place across the internet.

These types of applications have to support the strictest security measures as well as aggressive data bandwidths. We work with Netcope Technologies to provide programmable hardware accelerators that guarantee wire-speed traffic processing with zero packet loss on 100G, 40G and 10G Ethernet.

In combination with ready-to-use firmware, these accelerators provide both per-packet and stateful filtering, which is a basic element of lawful interception and data retention systems.

Together with support for multiple network technologies(100G, 40G, 10G and 25G Ethernet), this protects future investments when moving to higher speeds. Specifically, Netcope Session Filter (NSF) implements smart pre-processing of network traffic, based on keeping track of network flows directly in hardware.

NSF surpasses competing solutions due to its ability to dynamically adjust the level of traffic details transferred to software. Smart cooperation between intelligent software and powerful hardware allows implementation of reliable interception systems for the highest-speed networks, which is not possible with conventional solutions.

For more information about how Netcope and Sarsen can support your Law Enforcement, Cyber Security or Intelligence applications please get in touch - info@sarsen.net

Brand New Small Form Factor (SFF) System Features 10 Gb/s Optical Links for High-Bandwidth Embedded Computing

The latest 3U VPX embedded system from Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) sets a new standard for high-bandwidth data acquisition and signal processing in harsh environments.

With multiple high-speed optical links, an Intel® Xeon® D-1500 processor, and a Xilinx Kintex® UltraScale™ FPGA, the XPand6215 offers uncompromising performance and reliability in a SWaP-optimised two-slot system.

High-Speed, Fibre Optic Communications
The XPand6215 is a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) rugged chassis hosting two conduction-cooled 3U VPX modules. One slot contains the XPedite2570, a reconfigurable fibre-optic I/O module based on the Xilinx Kintex® UltraScale™ family of FPGAs.

The XPedite2570 supplies 12 protocol-independent optical transceivers operating at up to 10.3125 Gb/s, along with 8 GB of DDR4 ECC SDRAM in two channels capable of up to 38 GB/s aggregate bandwidth. The transceivers utilise 50/125 μm multi-mode fibre with MT connectors and are qualified over the full -40°C to +85°C industrial temperature range for reliable performance in extreme environments.

These optical links are paired with a user-programmable Xilinx Kintex® UltraScale™ FPGA, which provides a blend of performance and cost-effectiveness that is ideal for packet processing and DSP-intensive processing in embedded applications.

Unparalleled, Multi-Core Processing Power
The other slot of the XPand6215 contains the XPedite7670, a 3U VPX Single Board Computer based on the Intel® Xeon® D-1500 family of processors (formerly Broadwell-DE). Available with up to 16 Xeon®-class cores in a single, power-efficient System-on-Chip (SoC) package, this processor puts the XPand6215 in the upper echelon of embedded system performance. Xeon® D processors with up to 12 cores offer native extended temperature support with an operating temperature range of -40⁰C to +85⁰C.

The XPedite7670 also provides up to 16 GB of DDR4-2133 ECC SDRAM, while an XPort3305 10 Gigabit Ethernet XMC module installed on the XPedite7670 provides a rugged 10GBASE-SR Ethernet port.

Industry-Leading Functional Density in a Small Form Factor (SFF) Enclosure
The XPand6215 makes the most of every pound and square inch, packing maximum functionality into a streamlined two-slot design. Its integrated 28 VDC power supply eliminates the need for an additional power supply slot. It also includes a memory bay for a removable 2.5 in. solid-state drive (SSD), adding the option for up to 1 TB of storage. Fully loaded, the system weighs approximately 4kg, making it ideal for cutting-edge military and industrial applications that require small, lightweight solutions.

Qualified to the MIL-STD-461E/F, MIL-STD-810, and MIL-STD-704F standards, the XPand6215 has passed a battery of tests to ensure reliable operation in even the most challenging environments.

The XPand6200 Series of rugged, embedded systems are available in a diverse range of configurations, making them uniquely-suited to a variety of processing-intensive applications.

Please contact Sarsen Technology to discuss your requirements.