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General Micro Systems Achieves Two 2023 Military and Aerospace Electronics Innovators Awards

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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

General Micro Systems (GMS) announced today that its X9 Spider AI System and X9 Spider Manpack were recognized among the best by the 2023 Military & Aerospace Electronics Innovators Awards program.

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  • General Micro Systems (GMS) announced today that its X9 Spider AI System and X9 Spider Manpack were recognized among the best by the 2023 Military & Aerospace Electronics Innovators Awards program.
  • These awards were developed to showcase the most innovative solutions in aerospace and defense products and systems for the engineering industry.
  • GMS products received platinum awards which are characterized by a groundbreaking approach to meeting a need and/or a new level of performance, efficiency, ease-of-use or other beneficial quality.
  • The 2023 Innovators Award winners are selected by the qualified judging panel chosen by the editorial staff at Military & Aerospace Electronics.

​​Section’s Latest Platform Enhancements Make it Easy to Stand Up and Deploy Mastodon at Scale

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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Section’s platform automates the management of workloads like Mastodon using easily adjusted, rules-based parameters, making it ideally suited to easily distribute and scale these Mastodon instances globally.

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  • Section’s platform automates the management of workloads like Mastodon using easily adjusted, rules-based parameters, making it ideally suited to easily distribute and scale these Mastodon instances globally.
  • Simultaneously, the company has announced support for Persistent Volume storage, better enabling distributed deployment of Mastodon and other complex workloads.
  • Section’s platform makes it easy to reach a global audience, putting Mastodon as close as possible to users for a superior experience.
  • Optimal Cost: Deploying Mastodon workloads at scale can quickly get expensive and create major management and operations headaches.

Epiq Solutions Announces New Sidekiq™ VPX410, a Multi-Channel RF Tuner Solution Covering 400 MHz - 18 GHz in a CMOSS/SOSA-Aligned 3U VPX Card

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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Epiq Solutions, an engineering firm developing cutting edge tools for detailed insight into RF environments, today introduced the new Sidekiq™ VPX410, a CMOSS/SOSA™-aligned multi-channel tuner card designed to support rapid development of RF products needing to gain access to frequencies between 400 MHz and 18 GHz (sub 6 GHz realized through bypass path with gain and filtering). Sidekiq VPX410 can support both phase coherent operation and independently tunable operation, enabling a range of different mission requirements, and is ideally suited to handle emerging EW, SIGINT, C5ISR and other mission critical use cases.

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  • Built on Epiq Solutions' proven RF transceiver technology, Sidekiq VPX410 card comes in a conduction-cooled 3U VPX form factor with VITA 67.3 RF access through the backplane (SOSA profile 14.6.11-4).
  • The card includes four RF receive tuners (phase coherent or independently tunable) and one RF transmit tuner, with each supporting up to 1 GHz of instantaneous bandwidth.
  • Epiq Solutions develops cutting edge RF tools for situational awareness and detailed insight into RF environments for you to identify and take action against wireless threats.
  • Whether the need is to develop mission-critical defense communications for the battlefield or to protect sensitive information, Epiq Solutions is the trusted RF solution provider.

RF Transceiver Card Paired with VPX FPGA Baseboard Delivers Next Generation Performance

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Tuesday, November 27, 2018

This software defined radio (SDR) solution delivers high performance, flexibility, and scalability in a compact package, for the development of low-SWaP avionics, EW/EA, and signal intelligence applications and systems.

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  • This software defined radio (SDR) solution delivers high performance, flexibility, and scalability in a compact package, for the development of low-SWaP avionics, EW/EA, and signal intelligence applications and systems.
  • Sidekiq X2 and X4 cards provide up to four phase-coherent RF transceivers covering 1 MHz to 6 GHz, all within a VITA 57.1 FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) form factor.
  • RF performance is enhanced with 16-bit A/D converters and 14-bit D/A converters.
  • The integrated assembly and associated PDK reduces development times and improves wideband versatility and performance for many complex RF applications, including:

Custom LTE Processing Applications Now Possible with SRS LTE Supporting Epiq Solutions' Sidekiq M.2

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Friday, October 19, 2018

The combined technologies enable the development of custom LTE processing solutions in super small form factor radios for size-constrained applications, such as small UAS/UAVs.

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  • The combined technologies enable the development of custom LTE processing solutions in super small form factor radios for size-constrained applications, such as small UAS/UAVs.
  • With SRS's support, the Sidekiq M.2 SDR card acts as an RF front end for the SRS LTE software suite.
  • Customers who have already deployed Sidekiq M.2 now have the option of adding LTE to their processing application solutions without investing in new hardware.
  • "The SRS software suite includes complete LTE UE, eNodeB and EPC solutions, as well as custom products such as AirScope, the over-the-air LTE analysis toolbox.

Epiq Solutions Announces the Sidekiq™ X4 RF Transceiver for High Bandwidth Multi-Channel Applications

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Tuesday, June 12, 2018

SCHAUMBURG, Ill., June 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --Epiq Solutions, an engineering firm specializing in the development of flexible RF transceiver modules and complete turnkey wireless sensing solutions, has announced the launch of its Sidekiq X4 high bandwidth multi-channel RF transceiver card.Sidekiq X4 is based onthe RadioVerse ADRV9009 wideband RF transceiver design from Analog Devices, Inc. and provides up to 800 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth with its four phase coherent (or independently tunable) RF receivers.

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  • SCHAUMBURG, Ill., June 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --Epiq Solutions, an engineering firm specializing in the development of flexible RF transceiver modules and complete turnkey wireless sensing solutions, has announced the launch of its Sidekiq X4 high bandwidth multi-channel RF transceiver card.Sidekiq X4 is based onthe RadioVerse ADRV9009 wideband RF transceiver design from Analog Devices, Inc. and provides up to 800 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth with its four phase coherent (or independently tunable) RF receivers.
  • "Sidekiq X4 represents a big leap forward in multi-channel wideband RF processing with high performance in a standards-compliant small form factor," said John Orlando, CEO at Epiq Solutions.
  • "With the Sidekiq X4, engineers can leverage the wide bandwidth and high performance of our new ADRV9009 transceiver right away."
  • In addition to radio platform expertise, Epiq Solutions develops innovative integrated RF sensing products and signal processing applications that run on these platforms.