Choosing the Right Military Computer Supplier & Why It's Important
by Yazz Krdzalic on Feb 20, 2018 1:15:00 PM
A potential customer calls you with a requirement. They describe the project in detail and explain all the intricacies of the application. Things are looking good. The specifications to be met are as follows:
Creative and passionate engineering
by Michael Bowling on Feb 13, 2018 10:49:35 AM
The Stereotypical Computer Engineer We probably all have an image in our head of a stereotypical computer engineer. Sitting in their cube endlessly plugging away at the small details. At first glance this may seem mundane and unfulfilling, but if you take a step back and see the bigge …
BPG8155 Backplane Brings PCIe 3.0 to Military Computing
by Will Shirley on Feb 11, 2018 12:00:00 PM
Trenton Systems' BPG8155 PCIe backplane brings the power and performance of PCI Express Gen3 to the world of rugged, military computing. Representing another example of Trenton Systems' approach to systems engineering, the BPG8155 takes full advantage of our BXT7059 single board compu …
HDEC Backplanes Offer System Flexibility
by Tony Oliva on Feb 10, 2018 11:30:00 AM
The Trenton HDEC Series of Backplanes, System Host Boards and Systems represents a substantial increase in performance and throughput over previous interconnect methodologies, such as PICMG 1.3, up to 125% more interconnects. This allows HDEC to provide a large number of PCI Express a …
Can I buy this exact military computer until 2040? (Yes, you can!)
by Michael Bowling on Feb 9, 2018 2:33:16 PM
I was recently asked by a potential military customer if they could continue buying the same computer from Trenton Systems until 2040. Most people may immediately think that a date 22 years from now is way beyond their control and impossible to even consider. I'm proud to say that Tre …
NVIDIA GPU Test Drive
by Will Shirley on Feb 9, 2018 9:41:37 AM
NVIDIA® CUDA® is a parallel computing platform and programming model that allows the company's Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to provide general purpose processing. General Purpose GPU (GPGPU) computing excels at the processing of large blocks of parallelized data. GPGPUs break thes …
PCI Express-driven Cyrptographic Systems Tech Challenges
by Will Shirley on Feb 7, 2018 3:23:17 PM
Correctly routing PCIe signal traces is a design challenge that few companies can handle well, and taking short cuts in single board computer and backplane designs which utilize the PCI Express interface will always result in suboptimal system performance particularly in rugged cyrpto …
NVMe Data Storage Gaining Traction
by Will Shirley on Feb 7, 2018 3:12:41 PM
We are drowning in storage data! In the commercial markets, think of all those selfies and videos that are populating the internet every second of every day. In our embedded computing market space, think of all the data that is being generated and needs to find a storage home. Our fri …
What Is a Computing Partnership?
by Michael Bowling on Feb 6, 2018 11:00:00 AM
As a management team here at Trenton Systems, we try to periodically stop and ask the bigger questions. Why do we exist? What value do we bring to customers? What areas do we need to improve? What makes us better than our competition? There seems to be one common theme with our existi …