The Spirent GSS8000 is designed for use in the most demanding applications, and is capable of simulating ultra-high dynamics with industry leading accuracy.

The Spirent GSS8000 supports up to 20,000g signal dynamics, up to 120,000 m/s velocity and 50Hz (4ms) processing rates. Motion data can be generated using Spirent’s on-board vehicle models or using real-time high-rate host vehicle trajectory data over a remote interface. Spirent’s implementation supports full 6 degrees-of-freedom (6DOF) trajectory data. Low-latency hardware-in-the-loop capability is standard with synchronization and timing facilitated via 1 PPS in/out and 10MHz clock inputs.

In addition, the Spirent GSS8000 is designed to support Spirent’s range of options and extensions for testing advanced navigation and positioning systems. These include a range of GPS+inertial test interfaces, classified testing capabilities, interference effects, jamming signals and multi-element adaptive antenna (CRPA) antenna electronics units.

“The Spirent GSS8000 offers our customers the test capability they demand, for both today and tomorrow’s programs,” commented John Pottle, marketing director, Positioning Technology division, Spirent Communications. “We are taking the simulator performance to the next level with the Spirent GSS8000, while maintaining Spirent’s full range of options and classified testing capabilities that our customers have come to rely on, such as classified testing and full test support for future M-code receiver programs.”

Spirent’s products are sold in the US and Canada by Spirent Federal Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Spirent Communications. You can learn more about the GSS8000 at their booth at IEEE/ION PLANS 2008 May 5-8, 2008 in Monterey, CA.

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• Storage Appliance Corporation Introduces Clickfree Office DVD Backup (0)

This newest addition to the line of Clickfree back up products gives professionals a simple way to save all their critical productivity, email, calendar, Internet and design files. With support for more than 200 file types including Microsoft Office and Adobe applications, Clickfree Office DVD is designed for anyone who wants to protect their most valuable business asset – their daily work information.

As soon as the disc is inserted into a PC’s DVD drive, the Clickfree software automatically launches, searches and backs up files, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator files and more. While the software’s default settings will probably be sufficient for most, it is user-modifiable, giving users full control over their backups.

Available now, Clickfree Office DVD will be demonstrated at Interop 2008 in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, April 27 – May 2. Storage Appliance Corporation’s booth is #1984.

“Today, 85 to 90 percent of the population does not back up their PC,” said Ian Collins, president, Storage Appliance Corporation. “We hope the simplicity of our products will influence people to back up their data on a regular basis, significantly reducing the easily preventable devastation that comes from data loss.”

Because the Clickfree Office DVD is so easy to use, it is ideal for employees with limited computer knowledge, making it a perfect solution for small businesses without dedicated IT support. In addition, IT managers supporting non-technical remote workers will find tremendous value in its simplicity. Off-site employees can easily back up their laptops or home computers (that often contain work files) on a regular basis, without requiring IT help or resources. If a computer crashes, they can instantly restore their data themselves by pushing the “restore” button and be back up and running within minutes.

Clickfree Music and Photo DVDs Protect Cherished Digital Media

The new Clickfree Office DVD joins a line of existing back up DVDs offered by Storage Appliance Corporation, including Clickfree Music DVD Backup and Clickfree Photo DVD Backup. A hassle-free way to protect music collections and cherished photos, the DVDs automatically search for and back up music or photo extensions right out of the box. All popular and file formats are supported.

Back Up Your Entire PC with the Clickfree Hard Drive

For customers who want to back up all their data onto a hard drive, Storage Appliance Corporation also offers the 120GB Clickfree HD701. It automatically backs over 350 file types including Word, Powerpoint, emails and their attachments, photos, movies and music files. It even finds preferences, favorite websites and browser lists. At $149, it offers a tremendous value to families and IT managers, as one device can back up data from up to 10 computers, compartmentalizing each PC’s information for easy data identification and recovery.

All Clickfree back up devices are ideal for transferring files to a new computer. In case of hard drive failure or to share files with a new computer, simply click the “restore” button, and all the files will be brought into their original locations again.

The Clickfree Office DVD 5 Pack is available now at leading retail outlets in the U.S. and Canada. The MSRP is $14.99. All Clickfree back up solutions can also be purchased online direct from Storage Appliance Corporation. Visit www.goclickfree.com for more information or to locate a store.

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• CPU Tech Launches Acalis CPU872 MultiCore PowerPC with Embedded DRAM and Tamper Protection (0)
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The Acalis CPU872, a Field Programmable MultiCore (FPMC), directly addresses the need for a tamper-resistant, trusted supply of high-performance processing devices for use in vital applications. Fabricated at the IBM Trusted Foundry in cooperation with the Trusted Access Program Office and U.S. Navy sponsorship, the Acalis CPU872 combines defenses against malicious circuits and other Trojan horses, and effective and resilient run-time techniques to protect against tampering and reverse-engineering without impacting performance.

Industries such as financial, military & aerospace, and communications, along with many others that maintain critical infrastructure, are increasingly concerned with the security of their computer systems. Of growing concern is the threat that systems containing foreign-made components, in some cases of an unknown origin, are vulnerable to tampering. According to the Defense Science Board Task Force report on High Performance Microchip Supply released in February 2005, recent shifts in the electronics supply structure open such components to the insertion of “Trojan horses” and other unauthorized design inclusions. These backdoor features could be used to disrupt operations or obtain confidential and proprietary information. Other areas of concern include loss of intellectual property through reverse engineering and interruption of the supply chain to critical applications. Recently, a group led by a Princeton University computer security researcher demonstrated a simple method of stealing encrypted information. As reported by The New York Times, February 22, 2008, the group used a can of air to freeze the memory chips and special pattern-recognition software to identify security keys. Their technique compromises industry standards such as “Trusted Computing” hardware as well as utilities contained in the most popular operating systems.

In addition to integral security features, the highly integrated SoC is not susceptible to the Princeton type attacks. The device contains dual high performance PowerPC® 440 and FPU cores, embedded DRAM, and utility compute engines to accelerate computation of complex algorithms, communications, and synchronization between processors. This integration enables designers to build systems with significantly fewer components resulting in increased reliability and decreased power, cost and area. Its low power consumption makes the CPU872 the most efficient high performance PowerPC offering in the industry.

“Our customers and partners are involved in high value critical computing applications and have serious security concerns about the source, content, design knowledge, and management of critical computing resources such as processors, FPGAs, memory devices, and integrated systems. Ubiquitous high value computing infrastructure such as financial, transportation, military, process control and other embedded systems have become the targets of equally sophisticated and well financed criminal, subversive, and clandestine threats. As the flow of design knowledge has spread around the world, the ability and the willingness to insert a variety of trap doors, time dependent hidden features, Trojan horses and other such hard-to-detect schemes directly into silicon has become equally widespread,” said Ed King, CEO and Founder of CPU Tech. He continued, “The Acalis CPU872 is a fully trusted design from a tightly controlled trusted process that is directly integrated into the Trusted Foundry at IBM.”

“The anti-tamper, anti-reverse engineering and firewall capabilities contained in the CPU872 SoC will help enable the DoD to preserve its investment in critical technologies,” said Charles Caposell, U.S. Navy Program Manager. “The combination of security and high performance in a standard Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) device will be of immense value to the DoD and other security-minded organizations.”

The CPU872 is an industrial grade device with a minimum ten year life span. Samples are available to qualified organizations.

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