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Board-to-board segment lengths—measured in millimeters—are still of critical concern in high data throughput applications. In the photo above, an Air Force Avionics Technician visually inspects a circuit card for a C-17 Heads-Up Display.
Data Rates and Rugged Environments
increasingly sophisticated data processing capabilities in mobile command posts, soldier systems and navy platforms. The high-data rate technologies developed in these contexts sometimes also find unexpected uses in nuclear plant applications and even quantum computers.
The relative ease of implementing high-speed copper data transmission in electronic systems has led to a rapid increase in demand for sophisticated datalinks that operate flawlessly in the most extremely rugged application environments. Data transmission rates between avionics modules onboard spacecraft, for example, continue to increase, driven by the use of processors with multi- gigabit-per-second high-speed serial data I/O’s. These complex systems support the growing data requirements of onboard sensors and increased bandwidth requirements between communications switches and satellite communication terminals. High-speed / high data rate links that can support data rates up to 10 Gbps per channel, are increasingly common in these rugged application environments. A few additional examples would include the proliferation of sub-sea, terrestrial and airborne sensor and surveillance systems, as well as the
Sensors with high-speed data links are used in flight controls, environmental monitoring, sensor systems. and so on. Photo: The NASA-ISRO SAR Mission
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