• This PCI Express Mezzanine Card (XMC) was conceived to address the ongoing needs of high safety- and security-critical applications such as primary flight instrumentation and multi-level security (MLS) systems
• Certifiable to DO-178B for software and DO-254 for hardware
• Offers an obsolescence-proof design
• FPGA-based video- and graphics-processing core instead of the traditional approach of using dedicated GPUs which are rapidly made obsolete by end-of-life announcements
• The hardware, the core of which is Xilinx's Virtex-5 FPGA, is programmed as an embedded GPU that can be upgraded over the lifetime of the product
• The company's approach is different from traditional GPUs, however, in that it has fully DO-254 certifiable firmware rather than the traditional approach of obtaining a hardware waiver based on a statistical time test
• While originally designed for applications such as flight-certified image generation, the product is also applicable for other uses, such as real-time imaging for medical applications
• Video- and graphics-processing capabilities with analog and HD-SDI video outputs enable three-dimensional graphics in cockpits and mission-critical applications in particular
• The XMC from Quantum3D, is designed to be obsolescence-proof
• It incorporates Xilinx's Virtex-5 FPGA, which is programmed as an embedded GPU
• In addition to its safety-critical DO-178B and DO-254 certifiability, it meets the shock, vibration, temperature, and other requirements of MIL-STD-810F, making it well suited for the harsh and demanding environmental conditions posed by military and civilian field-computing implementations
• Offers 512 MB of ECC-protected DDR2 memory, dual RGB and dual HD-SDI outputs, and eight lanes of PCI Express
• Comes standard as a conduction-cooled XMC

See also:

• Sentiris AV1 Datasheet
• Quantum3D products
• Quantum3D on Facebook
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