After watching a wave of multicore processors announced in the last couple years, now I'm seeing the pendulum swing to new software that finally enables developers to really take advantage of them. Tools are hitting the market allowing developers to deploy applications on embedded multicore processors without handcrafting, unleashing the performance potential and helping get to market more quickly.

What open standard board format has dozens of vendors, leverages technology from commercial markets, and still offers RAS, QoS, low cost, and an outstanding roadmap? Why, the AdvancedMC-based MicroTCA, of course. This E-cast provides an overview of MicroTCA and showcases some of the standard's capabilities and growing ecosystem.

This E-cast will give you valuable insights into the increasing challenges imposed by today's mixed-language, varied levels of safety and security, multi-core, multi-partitioned, multi-execution mode applications and the available solutions to their growing complexity. .

A discussion of how embedded hardware modules, operating systems, development tools, and engineering methodologies ALL must be designed with "mission criticality" in mind during war time. In this E-cast, we will also take a look at some of the techniques employed by leading embedded systems and tools vendors to assure that front line equipment employs best practices to assure maximum lethality against the adversarywith maximum survivability to our own personnel.

The Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) is an extremely high-performance signal processing chip currently under evaluation for multi-function radars, including detection, tracking, jamming, NCTR, raid assessment, missile data linking, mapping and communications. The key issue in parallel processing and fast context switching is the ability to combine extremely powerful hardware with efficient auto-code software (GEDAE).

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.