The demands of aerospace and defense applications have been driven by size, weight, and power (SWaP). The trends in this industry will be identified, and the ways Power Architecture meets the requirements of control and signal processing in trusted computing architecture will be addressed.

The network-centric operation concept involves the rapid and continuous implementation of new capabilities through spiral evolution. With 30 years of experience in embedded market segments, Intel provides commercial technology leadership to help aerospace and defense industry developers accelerate the transformation to network-centric solutions. Intel's intensive research-and-development effort drives the nonstop advances in commercial technology and development of new generations of processors that balance improvements in power, performance, functionality, and cost.

The increasing complexity of aerospace and defense systems that can be rapidly deployed in theaters requiring high levels of safety and security is driving the demand for proven commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) safety and security artifacts for software systems. This seminar discusses the array of COTS safety and security products from Wind River that are proven to accelerate the deployment of systems into critical environments.

System developers today are challenged with creating the next generation of unmanned systems that are both safer and more secure than initial deployments. This seminar details proven system strategies to decrease space, weight, and power (SWaP), using both Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) and multilevel secure (MLS) platforms from Wind River, and how to use commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) certification evidence to accelerate time to deployment. In addition, it covers the integration of third-party control algorithm designs and communications strategies into these next-generation platforms.

Digital signal processing benchmarks with multicore compared to AltiVec will be analyzed, and Freescale's trusted architecture in a system on chip (SOC) will be introduced in detail.

Floating point processing performance is an essential component of digital signal and image processing applications. For approximately the past 10 years, the evolving series of processors with AltiVec instructions have earned the major share of the aerospace and defense signal processing market. Recent advances in Intel microprocessors though, for the first time, now provide an attractive alternative to AltiVec in the COTS military signal processing arena. You will learn how Intel x86 architecture meets signal and image processing performance needs.