Airborne Control PC with flexible data storage units
- Germany
- Digital modular system for aerial image acquisition
- Used in helicopters and fixed-wing aircrafts
- PIP11 used in a user specific compact housing, board mounted on cooling plate
- Connected to the PIP:
- over FW up to 2 digital cameras with 39Mpixel
- over SATA two storage units for 6400 images
- over DVI & USB a 8 inch TFT touch-screen
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Airborne Sensor control and data logging system
- Germany
- 3D laser measurements of the earth´s surface
- Used in helicopters and fixed-wing aircrafts
- Standard PIP11 with flange, mounted on shock absorbing platform
- The PIP manages and controls the "Light Detection and Ranging unit" and acts as
data logger during airborne missions
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Data Transfer Device
- USA
- Commercial & Military aircraft use, for distributing mission data over PCCard or SATA drives
to all mission systems
- IBM440 GX/666MHz PowerPC, 10.5 Watts, 4x SATA , 3x GigE Ports, ...
- Low power consumption ext. Temperature
- Long-term availability
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Wireless Communication Space Shuttle
- USA
- Used in Space Shuttle & ISS Operations
- Key points: low power design, rugged design, multiple SW support (Linux,
RT Linux, VxWorks) reliability, support and test results (radiation environment)
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Storage Controller in Avionics Program
- USA
- Data storage and data communication during mission
- Used in various airplanes
- Key points: ruggedness, extended temperature, support, flexibility (semi custom),
long-term availability
- VxWorks & Linux OS support
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MIR Interface System to payload system
- USA
- Interfaces Payload-Systems to the Tele-metry-System in the Space-Station MIR
- MC-DISK-E
- Launched May 94 with a Proton Rocket, returned August 96 with STS-79 Space shuttle
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Data Acquisition on airplanes
- France
- Custom development around the IBM405 CPU, onboard Flash & RAM
- The CPU board is used as avionics computer in a PC/104-Plus stack
- Extended temperature design for -40°C up to +85°C
- Due to the broad experience MPL was selected to develop the specific board,
which is coated according customer requirement
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PIP installed in helicopter
- Switzerland
- The heat scan camera is connected to the embedded PC installed on board the helicopter
- The system can detect warm spots on earth, lost humans in the forest, hot spots of
fire, as well as victims in avalanches
- Key decision factors: compactness, flexibility of the system, amount of
features. The product comes with extended temperature
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