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Telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs), network equipment providers (NEPs) and service providers face rising demands to increase services, faster and with fewer resources. The Service Availability Forum has developed specifications for standardizing hardware access, through the Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) and for applications operating in a high-availability environment through the Application Interface Specification.

The Communications Platforms Trade Association (CP-TA) is an association of communications platform and building block providers working together to accelerate the adoption of SIG-governed, open-specification-based communication platforms by certifying interoperable building blocks. This Webinar will provide an overview of the CP-TA's Interoperability Compliance Document (ICD) and Test Procedure Manual (TPM).

Advanced multi-function radar systems present enormous challenges, as they must simultaneously provide multi-mode search, multi-target tracking, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging, and space time adaptive processing (STAP). These systems will be deployed in some of the harshest and most demanding environmental conditions inside unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), manned aircraft, and ship- and ground-based radar systems.

FPGAs offer a wide range of cost/performance for implementing DSP algorithms. Finding the optimal implementation usually involves exploring the tradeoffs between fully parallel vs.

The Service Availability Forum has made great strides in 2006 with the release of the updated Hardware Platform Interface, the Application Interface Specification, and the new Systems Management Interfaces. This webinar will give participants a look at the current roadmap and expected releases for 2007, and the vision for future specifications and upgrades.

Learn what's essential to know for your enterprise - why has MicroTCA emerged so rapidly as an important new platform standard for telecommunications, medical, and mil/aero markets? This live E-cast looks at what is ahead for MicroTCA with its extremely high performance and bandwidth, plus its ability to scale from simple low cost systems to large, fully redundant systems for critical infrastructure. .

Engineers designing an embedded computing processor or I/O board face many challenges and choices. This E-cast will explore what happens when chipset are not available or alternatives are needed to meet specific design requirements.

This seminar will cover how today's engineering development teams can utilize a multipurpose embedded Linux distribution to create powerful embedded solutions. We will explore how open source packages developed and maturing today provide a path to carrier-grade Linux (CGL) solutions for embedded developers as well as how OEM-specific installable options (MTP2, X.

This seminar compares the benefits of SMP and distributed architectures as implemented for different types of processors. Developers and innovators who require embedded multiprocessing solutions can benefit from this seminar, which will present: (1) The ease of use and code portability of SMP architectures, (2) A comparison of solutions using the Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor to other processors based on X86 and PowerPC instruction set architectures, and (3) A look at future implementations expected to bring embedded server solutions to harsh environments requiring rugged formats.

The COM Express standard defines a small form factor single board computer based on high performance PCI Express fabric technology. Com Express boards can be used standalone for embedded applications or can act as a CPU mezzanine that plugs onto an application specific I/O base board.

The inherent parallelism of high density FPGAs, plus their ability to realize myriad DSP algorithms -- while also adding microprocessor capabilities -- has made them the logical choice in DSP systems. While not replacing the general purpose DSP IC, FPGAs complement signal processing applications so well that nearly all high performance systems rely on them.