Originally Published in the April Issue of MILITARY & AEROSPACE ELECTRONICS

MILITARY & AEROSPACE ELECTRONICS, VOL. 27, NO. 4, April, 2016 – In John Keller’s write up on “Beating the Heat” in the April 19, 2016 edition of Military & Aerospace Electronics, he examines the variety of ways to keep cool systems designed for military and defense. General Microsystems’ Chief Architect Ben Sharfi was John’s go-to guy for “the demands for high performance in embedded cooling”.

Originally published by John Keller for Military and Aerospace Electronics Magazine

THE MIL & AERO BLOG, October 13, 2015 - Military displays are taking a leap forward, and offers to overlay maps, video, imagery, and other important real-time information for command posts and ship bridges on displays as large as dinner tables, or even entire walls.

Propelling GMS into the Future

It’s been a monumental year here at General Micro Systems and we have you all to thank for it. We have won numerous government and industrial contracts and have expanded our workforce to meet market demands and the needs of our growing customers.  To give you a better understanding of why 2014 has been so successful, we’d like to showcase some of our hottest, most popular products. Some of these have been wildly favored all year and others have just recently been transformed from concept to reality, but all of them are gaining a whole lot of steam and fast!

JEFF'S PICKS! JEFF'S TOP RACKMOUNT COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Originally Published in the January Issue of COTS JOURNAL

COTS JOURNAL, VOL. 18, NO. 1, January, 2016 – For many military applications the priority is to pack as much compute density into a system as possible. To achieve that, a popular choice is a rackmount blade-computer architecture. By using the 1U form factor, it’s easier to integrate together systems that include existing off-the-shelf IT-based 1U boards. Systems of larger sizes such as 2U, 3U and 4U are also gaining acceptance in military systems where compute density is paramount. Unlike backplane-based architectures like VME or CompactPCI, rackmount systems are bus-less and typically use Ethernet or other cable-based technology to link boards with one another.

Originally Published in the September Issue of Military Embedded Systems

MILITARY EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, September 8, 2015 - There are lots of standards out there, such as VPX. But what actually makes a standard standard? I'll use VPX as my example. According to my definition of a standard, I should be able to remove a CPU board from the box and replace it with another CPU board, regardless of the manufacturer, and have it come up and running with fairly minimal effort.

POINT MUGU, CA, October 31, 2014 - U.S. Navy avionics experts needed rugged general-purpose processors for a rapidly deployable electronic warfare (EW) system for U.S. Marine Corps fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. They found their solution from General Micro Systems Inc. (GMS) in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.

Virtual-machine technology, fast interconnects, innovative thermal-management techniques, and modular architectures bring data-center power to embedded computing.

Originally Published in the January Issue of MILITARY & AEROSPACE ELECTRONICS

MILITARY & AEROSPACE ELECTRONICS, VOL. 27, NO. 1, January, 2016 – Sometimes even more exotic thermal-management techniques are necessary, including refrigeration in which chassis are air-conditioned. Designers at General Micro Systems (GMS) in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., are taking an entirely different approach with RuggedCool computers.

Leveraging the Traditional for the Design of the Future

Originally Published in the October Issue of RTC Magazine

At the core of successful surveillance is the ability to collect data without detection. This can be problematic once those being observed become privy to the current, most innovative technologies used.  Thus, as this current era of innovation evolves, the difficulties involved in collecting, interpreting, and processing ever-increasing amounts of data, sometimes in intense mobile environments, places extreme pressure on mobile platform designers and engineers.  Current trends and future projections show that surveillance efforts continue to require greater consideration for systems technology in regards to size, weight and power (SWaP), as well as user experience, and high-security capabilities.  That said, as organizations like Border Patrol and other agencies that work to protect homeland security gear up for the inevitabilities of the future, the pressure to obtain surveillance technologies that overcome existing and forecasted roadblocks is now of an especially time sensitive importance.

General Micro Systems, Inc. – Applied Technology Group, a global leader in the design and manufacture of ultra-rugged, high performance computing engines, has just released a series of rugged smart displays named “RuggedView™” and is set to move into the commercial broadcasting arena. GMS will be demonstrating their “RuggedView™” displays in Booth #C1363 during NAB, Las Vegas, April 7-10, 2014. Products in this series include an array of rugged displays ranging from 10” to 65, are available in Standard Definition (SD), High Definition (HD), and Ultra-High Definition (UHD) and offer a host of customization options.