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(1999), "Blue Wave Systems awarded contract by Raytheon", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 71 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/aeat.1999.12771aab.055
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
Blue Wave Systems awarded contract by Raytheon
Blue Wave Systems awarded contract by Raytheon
Keywords Blue Wave Systems, PCs
Blue Wave Systems Inc. (NASDQ/NMS: BWIS) has been awarded a $1.1 million contract by the Raytheon Systems Company, with options valued at $2.5 million. Blue Wave Systems will be providing a ruggedised Quad Processor-PowerPC Conduction Cooled Board for use in high performance aircraft avionics applications. The programme could translate into a long-term potential of up to $16 million for Blue Wave Systems.
The Blue Wave Systems ruggedised Quad-PowerPC is reported to meet cost, open architecture and standards-based goals of defence programs utilising COTS products without compromising stringent environmental requirements. Blue Wave Systems product families are designed to target each of four standard ruggedisation levels. All levels share the same basic design, providing software compatibility across the family.
The Blue Wave Systems VME 4100 PowerPC is a VME64 6U-form factor board and contains four MPC603r PowerPC processors. Processor node 1 contains 8MB of flash memory and 8MB of local memory. The remaining three processor nodes contain 2MB of flash memory and 8MB of local memory. The board is conduction cooled and can operate at a cold wall temperature range of 40 degrees to +65 degrees Celsius. A stiffening architecture along with front and back panels allow the board to absorb a 40g peak, half sine of shock for a duration of 11ms and 0.04g2/Hz (20 to 2,000Hz) of vibration for 2.5 hours. The onboard PCI bus provides a high-speed processor interconnect with onboard Ethernet to aid in software development. The fiber channel interface operating at 1,062.5Mbps provides for high bandwidth I/O capability.
Further details are avalable from Blue Wave Systems Ltd. Tel: +44 (0) 1509 634444; Fax: +44 (0) 1509 634450.