Flight control computer simplifies avionic system design
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Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems has introduced a conduction cooled embedded processing system to be deployed in airborne commercial and military applications.
The Versatile Flight Control Computer (VFCC) is a small form factor flight control computer that incorporates dual ARM processors, dual dsps and three Xilinx fpgas.
The dual processors clusters are designed to make the VFCC suitable for rotorcraft, manned and unmanned aircraft environments. According to Curtiss-Wright, it satisfies a wide range of applications including flight controls, vibration management, engine controls, mission computing and actuator control.
The VFCC is designed to provide dual 600MHz AEM Cortex-A8 processor clusters, dual TMS320C64x+ dsp processors and three Xilinx Spartan 6 fpgas with 1GB of data to non volatile memory. The enclosed unit supports configurable off the shelf I/O interfaces and includes system level built in test.
According to David Deitz, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems group, the ARM processor's low power design makes it the 'go to' processor for mobile devices. "Our Versatile Flight Control Computer provides designers of airborne computing systems with a qualified low profile, lightweight, rugged flight control computer that includes a full complement of flexible I/O interfaces. It's ideal for simplifying avionics system design and reducing time to market for rugged military and aerospace deployed platforms."
