Embedded AvionicsWebinar: Need Safety? When Design Assurance is Required and When it’s Not Aircraft and autonomous platforms use systems with design assurance to ensure safety, enabling pilots to make accurate, split-second decisions and ensuring self-driving vehicles navigate appropriately and on-time. Obviously, safety-critical applications require…
Air TaxiMercury Systems Unveils Multicore Processor Module for Helicopters, UAM Vehicles Mercury Systems, Inc. on Jan. 20 unveiled its EnsembleSeries™ CIOE-1390 module for helicopters and urban air mobility vehicles. The company hailed the CIOE-1390 as "the industry’s first commercially-available compute module with Intel® Atom®…
Air TaxiMercury Systems VP Talks 2020s Embedded Avionics Technology Trends As the global aerospace and defense industry shifts into the 2020s, embedded systems suppliers are being tasked with supporting certifiable avionics architectures capable of meeting the most stringent versions of DO-178C and…
MilitaryMercury Systems Acquires GECO Avionics Mercury Systems has completed its $36.5 million acquisition of GECO Avionics. Headquartered at a 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Mesa, Arizona, GECO was first established in 1995. Mercury wants to use the acquisition…
Embedded AvionicsMercury VP Sees eVTOLs Driving Future of Embedded Avionics Convergence The use of an electric air taxi to commute between vertiports in traffic-choked cities might seem like a futuristic fantasy, but one of the world’s largest suppliers of open systems-based embedded avionics
ProfilesMercury Systems Engineer Suggests Using AI to Certify AI David Simpson always dreamed of being a pilot. When he was a child in the U.K., his father was a member of the Royal Air Force, and he used to regale the…
Embedded AvionicsMercury Mini Server Will Enable Rugged, Portable Storage Mercury Systems will be releasing a new member of its EnterpriseSeries server line, the XR6 RESmini. The new server features Intel Xeon Skylake scalable processors and comes with an FAA-compliant power case…