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Abaco announces significant win from major European technology company to help equip helicopter cabin computer

By PR Editor | October 20, 2020

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Abaco Systems today announced that it has won orders from a major European technology company that will see Abaco’s range of innovative hardware platforms deployed at the heart of a new helicopter cabin computer.


The initial order is valued at $350,000. Total lifetime value to Abaco of the win is expected to be $1.5 million. Design and integration will take place during 2020 with production scheduled to start in 2021.
The requirement was to replace the existing cabin computer, which was based on Abaco’s DAQMAG2A high performance rugged display computer which had ceased production, onboard a twin-engined helicopter designed to be suitable for long range operations.

The challenge was to develop flight deck systems to make the pilot’s job as easy as possible by reducing workload, delivering intuitively actionable information based on data acquired from a broad range of sensors, and enhancing situational awareness.

Working with a channel partner, an evolution of the DAQMAG2A-based system was proposed. The new cabin computer would use Abaco’s SBC329 3U VPX single board computer and NVP2102 XMC graphics output and video capture board, plus other modules designed by the channel partner.

“Once again, Abaco has demonstrated the value of our broad range of innovative platforms to our customers,” said John Muller, Chief Growth Officer at Abaco Systems. “Our ability to provide a ‘one-stop shop’ means that interoperability is assured, integration is eased, test and verification is made simpler and time to market is reduced. These factors can all make a substantial contribution to our customers’ success.”

The major European technology company has a multi-decade history, and is a leading player in the global aviation industry. Its helicopter division continues to develop an extensive range of modern rotary wing platforms for commercial, public service, and security and defense applications.

The SBC329 rugged single board computer features the high performance Intel Xeon E3-1505M or E3-1505L v6 (quad core) operating at 3.0 GHz base frequency, up to 4.0 GHz TurboBoost. With up to 16GBytes of soldered ECC memory, it includes the SmartFusion2 FPGA with advanced security features.
The NVP2102 is a chip-down XMC graphics output and video capture board based on the NVIDIA Pascal (GP107) Quadro P2000 GPU. The NVP2102 offers very high performance graphics and GPGPU capability – up to 2.3 TFLOPS floating-point – with CUDA and OpenCL support.

Abaco Systems
www.abaco.com


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