At VadaTech, our focus is on creating custom open standards-based solutions for military and aerospace prime contractors, with particular expertise in SWAP-C optimization and life cycle management. In addition to commercial-grade products, we also build specialty IO blades, carrier blades and chassis to help you create innovative, high-performance solutions that operate anywhere, every time.
Mission critical
High performance
For mission-critical defense applications, VadaTech offers battle short override and cold start extensions to ATCA and MTCA standard capabilities. We also offer both convection and conduction-cooled systems, and options for meeting MIL-STD-810F and 901D for shock/vibration and MIL-STD-461E for EMI.
Applications
Aerospace
Naval
Land
Radar & EW
Space
SDR
Extreme Environments
While VPX is a dominant form factor in defense, MicroTCA has gained wide acceptance through the MTCA.1 and MTCA.3 standards, and VadaTech is now supplying MTCA products onto a wide range of platforms, airborne and other.
An existing defense customer looked for the ability to use standard, off-the-shelf AMCs but required I/O through MIL-STD connectors. To support this requirement, VadaTech modified an existing product to generate the VT858. This allowed the customer to gain all the benefits of using COTS modules while still using the required standard of cabling between chassis.
While most ATCA and MicroTCA systems are destined to sit in 19” racks, this is unacceptable in many defense applications. Working with a major customer, VadaTech developed the VT870 to address those applications that require an ATR chassis. When used with conduction-cooled AMCs and MCH, this allows the MicroTCA architecture to be used in extreme environments requiring a high level of ruggedization.
By providing an alternative to a VPX platform, VadaTech was able to fit within a tight space envelope on an airborne platform, while achieving very high compute density in a highly connected, FPGA-based sensor processing sub-system.
Featured Products
The AMC001 provides an easy way to test/monitor AMC slots under different power loading conditions. The module includes two front panel switches for configuration. The rotary switch is read during [...]
The AMC002 provides a convenient way to monitor and/or inject Telco clocks with a μTCA/ATCA system utilizing either AMC v1 or AMC v2 clock pin-out definitions. Two clocks may be [...]
The AMC003 provides an accurate local clock frequency to a μTCA/ATCA system which is derived from a GPS 1PPS signal. The local oscillator is disciplined to provide the desired clock [...]
The AMC004 provides a complete GPS bus-level timing solution to a MTCA/ATCA system. The onboard GPS receiver is used to discipline the local oscillator and cancel out any oscillator drift [...]
The AMC005 provides a complete, feature-rich, GPS/PTP (1588)/IRIG/NTP bus-level timing solution to a MTCA/ATCA system, with exceptional flexibility. The onboard GPS receiver 1 PPS or IRIG input is used to [...]
The AMC006 provides a complete, feature-rich, GPS/PTP (1588)/IRIG/NTP bus-level timing solution to a MTCA/ATCA system, with exceptional flexibility. The onboard GPS receiver, or 1PPS, or Inter-Range Instrumentation Group (IRIG) input, [...]
The AMC011 provides an easy way to test/monitor AMC slots under different power loading conditions. The module includes two front panel switches for configuration. The rotary switch is read during [...]
The AMC012 provides an easy way to test/monitor airflow in five zones. An LCD display on the front panel allow for effortless monitoring of the airflow. There are four temperature [...]
The AMC013 provides an easy way to connect to the FMC155 module to provide expansion of the I/O. The module provides Isolated RS-485, Ten Isolated Output, Ten Isolated Input and [...]
The AMC014 is designed to providing frequency matched triggering signals as dual LVDS output. The AMC014 trigger response can be configured via the front panel RS232 interface or a trig [...]
The AMC015 is the third generation IPMI controller that meet all of the requirements for an AMC MMC and ATCA Carrier Manager as laid out in the industry standards from [...]
Our large selection of open architecture COTS hardware includes processing technology from Intel, Freescale and Cavium, FPGA devices, PCIe, SRIO and up to 40GbE fabric interconnects. We have a proven track record of leveraging leading-edge silicon technology into COTS form factors, with a long list of firsts to our name.
Commercial off the shelf
(COTS)
Driven by the DoD’s modular open system approach (MOSA), commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) directives and the need to reduce size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-C), military and aerospace equipment manufacturers are now adopting open, bladed architectures such as AdvancedTCA, MicroTCA and VPX to meet their high performance embedded computing (HPEC) requirements.