White Papers

Ensuring the Highest Level of Availability With Smart Redundancy and Predictive Intelligence

Increasing Production Uptime and Asset Performance While Also Lowering Total Cost of Ownership

A Comparison of 10Gb Ethernet Performance, Serial Rapid IO, and InfiniBand

Achieve Operational Excellence Through Consistent and Repeatable Plant Operations

This white paper examines how judicious planning and implementation of a new DCS system can provide significant savings in consumables such as water and fuel, engineering fees, and other operating cost factors.

Using electronic work instructions to improve changeover processes—paving the way for manufacturers to recover valuable production time, accelerate margin, and control product quality

This white paper looks at how the effective use of automation can help prevent security risks at water and wastewater plants.

Chip-down and mezzanine options present potential benefits and drawbacks for developers.

Learn how Vetronics architectures are revolutionizing communications among virtually all battlefield assets.

As drinking water standards and effluent discharge regulations get increasingly stringent, water-centric utilities are optimizing processes and recordkeeping with industry-specific software solutions.

Understanding how advanced distributed control system capabilities drive optimized production

GE Intelligent Platform's CCO Professional Andy Debs offers insights into design techniques for maximizing the efficiency of Reflective Memory Networks.

Increased system complexities and rising operational costs drive the need for greater operation control and recordkeeping.

This whitepaper looks at the risks involved in the development 40G ATCA systems

Lessons learned from high-performance computing arena can be transferred to military and aerospace applications for improved component interoperability.

Increasing vector engine to 256 bits doubles DSP compute capacity while reducing SWaP.

Video camera & sensor arrays causing a rapid switch from 1GbE to 10GbE in Mil/Aero platforms communications networks.

Utilizing Electronic Standard Operating Procedures (eSOPs) to comply with regulatory mandates such as RIN 2137–AE28 Pipeline Safety, drive good business practices globally, and capture and proliferate expert knowledge and proven procedures

Military and aerospace sector reaps benefits from consumer-led technology developments

A look into the critical software capabilities that can help manufacturers optimize product quality and minimize food safety risks during production— protecting consumer brand loyalty and profitability

This paper discusses how the significant performance improvements of the 2nd generation Core i7 processors relate less to the core frequency than to exciting architectural improvements and new features.

Optimize your Smart Grid planning with a holistic and integrated approach that encompasses Smart Grid functionalities critical for grid optimization and financial sustainability.

Automation systems for these plants are highly sophisticated, even though the plants are small and remotely located.

Extend traditional operations metrics and KPIs with resource consumption data

This white paper aims to explain the fundamentals of modelling the probability of failure, including minimizing common mode failures in redundant systems, improving diagnostic coverage, and factoring in undetected failures.

This paper discusses PCIe technical features and applications using xTCA that can benefit from using the native PCIe interconnect..

Engaging and Supporting the Operator of Today Into the Future With Advanced Software Capabilities

As operators are inundated with more alarms and warnings than ever before, ensuring the correct response to the small subset of alarms that signal critical issues is key to helping companies reduce liability exposure and costs.

The explosion of new products and increasing customer expectations requires OEMs to provide better flexibility, reliability, openness, and performance for their manufacturing and production customers.

What to look for when designing and selecting rugged COTS-based products.

This paper describes how the ATCA infrastructure takes advantage of multicore processors

Ensuring Continuous Operations with Increased Controller Reliability

Delivering increased precision and enabling advanced regulatory control strategies for continuous process control

This paper details strategies for using PCIE as a backplane interconnect withing mTCA and ATCA platforms

Understanding and minimizing the security gaps in your HMI/SCADA system can be a challenge due to complex, multi-layered technologies.

What is Reflective Memory? Where Do I Use Reflective Memory? How Do I Use Reflective Memory? Your questions are answered in this Whitepaper.

Maximizing Memory Resources on Xeon 5500-based ATCA blades

Workflow permet à votre organisation d’atteindre l’excellence pour votre gestion opérationnelle de production

Achieving a New Level of Operational Excellence

Enabling Standard Work to Increase Cost Savings and Maintain Lean Momentum

Ethernet has become perhaps the most ubiquitous communication technology in use today. It was originally used connect computers in a communication network, but today Ethernet is finding a wide variety of new uses.

Advances in Radar Processing white paper addresses multi-functional radar systems and how they need to perform much more sophisticated, computationally intensive algorithms - and to do so within limited space & constraints on power & heat dissipation.

Meeting NERC requirements for HMI/SCADA

Designing multiple PCI Express processor nodes into xTCA host systems

MIL-STD-1553 Tutorial

Comparing High-Speed Data Recording Architectures

The Strategic Importance of Plant Reliability

Optimieren der Produktion mit SOA-basiertem Industrial BPM

This white paper will show how DSP libraries and graphical tools accelerate this distributed corner turn development.

This white paper will show how a modern tool-chain might address different issues when configuring and programming a complex, heterogeneous multiprocessor system for a Mil & Aero application and result in a much reduced time to solution.

This paper looks at developing applications for systems with switched fabric interconnects

This paper looks at VPX for rugged environments and embedded military applications.

Making Flat Panel Computer Systems Work in Harsh Environments White Paper

Even though Ethernet is ubiquitous and well known, there are a number of design parameters that affect device interoperability in the ecosystem.

Thanks to its close family ties to AdvancedTCA®, MicroTCA was endowed with robust management capabilities right from the start. These capabilities include temperature and voltage monitoring, FRU insertion and removal, and Electronic Keying.

This paper describes an innovative way to overcome this inherent limitation of Ethernet.

Published here with permission from Intel®, this paper describes how telecommunications companies can accelerate the rollout of new wireless technologies and services using Intel® building blocks.