This paper reports on COTS technology migrating from commercial to military applications. A chip sets expressly designed to control washing machine motors mutating into technology for solar-powered unmanned tactical airships. How a state-of-the-art foundry, LSI Logic, who abandoned the military business a decade ago, led back into the mil-aero market. However, a convergence of factors made possible by its RapidChip platform-ASIC technology recently led the company to again offer its services to the military.
US military embraces commercial technology
Electronic Design ; 53 , 16 ; 47-48
2005
2 Seiten
Article (Journal)
English
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