16-08-2022 | Aitech | Subs & Systems
Aitech Systems now provides the U-C8500, U-C8501 and U-C8502, three new 3U VPX cybersecurity-enabled SBCs aligned to The Open Group SOSA Technical Standard.
Unique to the series SBCs is the single board combination of three main pillars of modern data processing acceleration: CPU, iGPU and FPGA. A high-performance CPU SoC providing a strong internal GPU is merged with optional integrated large FPGA, allowing the new series to be utilised in a wide range of rugged defence and aerospace data-intensive applications, including AI/ML, all while minimising SWaP-C and with no sacrifice to performance.
The series fully supports AiSecure, the company's innovative and proprietary cybersecurity framework that increases survivability and confidence by detecting and preventing unexpected attacks. The inherent security features allow firmware and data protection and stop reverse engineering and tampering with system integrity while permitting secure transmission and storage of sensitive data.
Alex Trigoub, director, Board Level Product Line for Aitech, commented: "The U-C850x Series provides an improved performance-to-cost ratio as well as better performance-per-Watt than existing Intel SBCs. The boards are also aligned with the SOSA Technical Standard, allowing for much faster, easier integration and upgrades while improving time-to-market and lowering risk. Having advanced Intel application performance, strong video, AI and ML processing capabilities, and a large integrated FPGA on a 3U VPX SBC, without wasting additional SWaP-C on separate GPGPU and FPGA boards, is an impressive combination, one that today's defence systems are demanding."
Highly integrated functionality and excellent SWaP-C make the new series ideal for several harsh defence and aerospace applications needing to reliably process significant amounts of data. These include UAV/UGV, mission computers, digital signal and image processing, SIGINT, and EW.
The boards provide support for up to 64GB LPDDR4X RAM to offer higher performance for graphics and AI/ML applications utilising the integrated GPGPU and PCIe Gen4 support for optimised interconnect to other boards in the system.
