Curtiss-Wright Unveils its Strategic Imaginative and prescient for 25 Gbaud “Gen 5” OpenVPX Merchandise for Subsequent Era 100G Programs

ASHBURN, Va. – June 13, 2023 – Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Options division immediately introduced the launch of its new Fabric100 suite of 3U and 6U OpenVPX™ modules and programs. Fabric100 brings 100Gbit Ethernet and excessive efficiency PCIe Gen4 interconnect speeds to tomorrow’s new era of rugged deployable computing architectures. In the present day, system integrators should fulfill their C5ISR functions’ insatiable urge for food for sharing ever rising volumes of data. The upper-speed interconnects required to assist these efficiency calls for introduce vital integration challenges for programs integrators. What’s extra, the power to satisfy the business’s aim of simplified interoperability, in different phrases, to shortly and successfully construct programs utilizing open requirements based mostly constructing blocks and make them work nicely collectively, turns into more and more dangerous as system designers migrate to quicker 16Gbaud and 25Gbaud signaling know-how. To handle this daunting downside and cut back the system design dangers related to increased velocity interconnects, Curtiss-Wright has developed Fabric100, an entire end-to-end ecosystem of high-speed rugged OpenVPX modules and system parts. It's not sufficient to easily present 100Gbit connections between a system’s modules but fail to assist the power to course of all this information inside the modules themselves. Recognizing that, Curtiss-Wright’s Fabric100 board architectures are designed to ship full 100Gbit efficiency by means of the whole processing chain, to successfully get rid of information bottlenecks which may in any other case compromise system efficiency.

The primary members of the Fabric100 household, which is able to function each 3U and 6U modules, will likely be publicly introduced all through 2023. The debut merchandise within the Fabric100 household, a pair of multi-processing 6U OpenVPX modules, will embody a dual-processor compute module and a dual-processor sign acquisition and processing module.

For patrons constructing programs based mostly on the SOSA Technical Commonplace, all Fabric100 merchandise are designed to align with the SOSA Technical Commonplace, together with I/O Intensive Single Board Laptop Profile modules, Payload/Compute Profile modules, and several other Change profile modules. Clients that don’t require alignment with SOSA can even profit from Fabric100 improvements for the reason that SOSA normal’s widespread pinouts and Curtiss-Wright’s adherence to particular SOSA profiles for all Fabric100 3U and 6U modules will assist ship unprecedented ranges of programs integration ease and higher flexibility and choices for future know-how insertions.

For patrons at present utilizing Curtiss-Wright Fabric40™ OpenVPX know-how with 40Gbit interconnect speeds, the brand new Fabric100 options will present a simplified know-how insertion path. As Fabric40 and Fabric100 merchandise share appreciable architectural {hardware} and software program commonality, prospects that plan to deploy Fabric100 based mostly designs can start their system growth utilizing Fabric40 {hardware} and improve later as wanted, with solely minimal programs and software design updates required. Clients can even profit from having a single vendor that gives a constant growth ecosystem, together with platform software program and software APIs, to ease their transition from 40Gbit to 100Gbit processing.

Designed to offer system designers with unmatched interoperability, the Fabric100 suite of merchandise will handle the widest vary of rugged deployed functions, from those who require low energy and excessive effectivity common function processing (GPP) to those who demand probably the most excessive and compute intensive processing efficiency. The Fabric100 household will allow system designers to architect their total system, whether or not they require GPP or Excessive Efficiency Embedded Computing (HPEC), Virtualization, AI/ML Engines, GPU acceleration or Programmable FPGA Processors, all whereas utilizing members of the identical product suite which have been optimized to work seamlessly collectively. Curtiss-Wright ensures that advantages of this high-speed know-how are realized by programs integrators with the verification of the 100Gbit throughput efficiency of Fabric100 merchandise, not simply on the interface or module stage, however when used collectively on the system stage, too. To assist and validate Fabric100’s 25 Gbaud interconnects, Curtiss-Wright has developed the business’s most rigorous 25 Gbaud sign integrity design guidelines for system-level integration.

Predictably, the usage of quicker signaling know-how in Gen 5 OpenVPX programs drives elevated energy and thermal dissipation necessities. Because the business strikes to 100W, 150W, 200W, and even 300W modules, the power to chill modern processing engines turns into a vital differentiator between competing COTS distributors. Whereas two suppliers might use the identical or comparable processing chipsets, the design that makes use of a greater thermal answer will ship the superior operational efficiency. For that cause, Curtiss-Wright has carried out new and modern module-level thermal administration strategies that present superior cooling for COTS variations of its Fabric100 product suite. As well as, a variety of superior chassis-level cooling strategies can also be supported by the Fabric100 product suite, together with Air Movement-Via (AFT), Liquid Movement-Via (LFT), and Fluid Movement-Via (FFT) applied sciences.

To study extra about Curtiss-Wright’s Fabric100 Expertise, please obtain the brand new white paper, “Fabric100 100G Processing: The Path Ahead for Quicker, Extra Succesful Programs”.

Curtiss-Wright has been a number one contributor to the success of open requirements, with seats on a number of open requirements organizations corresponding to VITA and SOSA. For many years, Curtiss-Wright has been serving to to steer the dialogue to form how open requirements are outlined and adopted, enhancing our intimate data of the vital points of open normal design.

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