TEK Microsystems is at the forefront of developing and delivering technologies that serve the compute and I/O processing needs of high performance embedded applications.  Primarily focused on the Military market space, Tekmicro products provide solutions that bring a new level of performance to VME/VXS platforms. 

Technology Articles:

TEK Microsystems has prepared a complete white paper for download on the features and advantages of the QuiXilica V5 Architecture.

Migrating to Virtex-5 Without Falling Off The Cliff

FPGAs Shine In Defense Signal Processing Apps

VITA 42 XMC on Path Toward ANSI Standard

SIGINT Systems Take Flight

FPGAs Enable Real-Time Data Recording for Sensor Processing Applications

FPGAs Implement Storage Interfaces for Data Recording Systems

Advanced FPGA Systems Enable Real-Time Adaptive Beamforming for Phased-Array Radar

FPGAs Edge Out GPPs for Advanced Signal Processing Apps

Implementing FPGA clusters and mesh architectures

Switched Fabric Schemes Enable Right-Sizing to an Application

VXS VITA 41 melds fabrics and FPGAs: Achieving tomorrow's backplane performance today

Data Acquisition Systems Track Signal Processing TechnologyData acquisition with embedded FPGA processing - the perfect recipe for high performance

CEO/CTO of TEK Microsystems Andrew Reddig sees three major trends in embedded high performance computing that will impact the VME market:

 * Switch fabric interconnect: With Serial RapidIO, InfiniBand, and PCI Express becoming real, traditional bus architectures will add switched fabric interconnect using truly open standards such as VXS (VITA 41) and XMC (VITA 42) to create scalable solutions that address the ever-increasing demands of high performance signal processing applications.

 * FPGA processing: The combination of high gate density and multi-gigabit I/O bandwidth in devices such as Xilinx' Virtex 5 FPGAs will enable the development of combined PowerPC-FPGA processing engines, bringing order-of-magnitude improvements in processing density and system throughput for both I/O modules and VME processor cards.

 * Intelligent I/O: Using today's FPGAs, I/O modules can now incorporate PowerPC-based server intelligence and flexible core-based switched fabric interconnect to create a new paradigm for customizable I/O with built-in intelligent stream management.

Finally, the emerging focus on truly open industry standards will allow the development of software infrastructure to manage fabric, FPGA, processor and memory resources seamlessly across different systems, applications and manufacturers.

Tekmicro's products incorporate all of these technologies and bring a new level of performance to the VME platform, offering interconnect bandwidth of 2.5 GB/s per 6U slot, processing densities up to

10M FPGA gates along with GHz-class G4 and G5 processors and I/O bandwidths of 5 GB/s using dual XMC sites.