Software-Defined Radio technology and market outlook

Mil Tech Trends
EMBEDDED TECH FOR MIL SIMULATION AND TRAINING
night vision goggles. Pilots can use their
own goggles and experience highly
realistic NVG training.”
“The cutting-edge improvements on the
projectors and the immersive aspect of
systems enable pilots to look all around
them in a full 360° horizontal field of
view, seeing images of other airplanes
or targets, which requires a very large
amount of pixels that was not previously
feasible or affordable before high resolution
LCoS technology,” De Meerleer
says. “The simulators can make use of
fully immersive screens with multiple
projectors at the same time with brightness
and color automatically adjusted
between the different projections.”
Rockwell Collins projector technology
enables deeper black levels for JSF training.
“The Rockwell Collins 2015 projectors
are used in the JSF simulation program,”
Ridgeway says (see Figure 2). “We’ve
got a patented technology in there
that absolutely allows for the blackest
› full-mission military simulators.
black – levels you can’t get from other
commercial technology such as LCoS
projectors. Typically LCoS systems have
higher ambient light. We have patented
technology that enables us to
reduce the overall ambient light and
reduce contrast so you can see the
required black levels. I think this is a
Figure 1 | Barco’s RPD-360 360° fully immersive rear projected dome is used for
case where COTS doesn’t just quite cut
it. For high-end, complex simulation like
the JSF, you need to move away from
commercial theater projectors.
Virtual flight training via datalink
“Rockwell Collins also has been working
on building an embedded training
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32 October 2012 MILITARY EMBEDDED SYSTEMS