Advanced Packaging

Advanced Packaging
Advanced Packaging

Proven Solutions for Reliable Performance in the Harshest Environments

 

Curtiss-Wright distinguishes itself from other electronic packaging suppliers by specializing in engineered packaging solutions, primarily for rugged government, military, and aerospace applications. Our solutions are designed using a modular open systems approach to be aligned with CMOSS, SOSA, GVA, and other essential technology standards for interoperability and sustained technology relevance.


Our thermal, structural, and signal integrity engineering expertise delivers predictable, reliable performance for all aerospace and defense missions, from small-form-factor to high-performance embedded computing modules, chassis, and systems.


Curtiss-Wright processing technologies are designed with MIL-STD qualification in mind and scale across VPX (VITA 46), VPX REDI (VITA 48), OpenVPX (VITA 65/68), VME64x, and small form factor architectures. The technology building blocks we develop are also ideally suited to developing purpose-built solutions quickly, with significantly reduced program risk.

Our Engineering Services
Thermal Analysis
Structural Analysis
Signal Integrity Analysis
Program Management
Integration and Test Engineering
Environmental, Reliability and EMII/EMC Testing
System Integration
Chassis and Backplane Design

Reliable Performance Through Better Cooling Technologies

Expelled heat from processors functioning at full performance cause reliability and determinism problems for mission-critical applications. When computer components get too hot, they do not perform to their designed specifications, become unreliable, and deliver variable processing performance. We have developed the most efficient and effective natural and forced air, liquid, and hybrid cooling technologies to keep these systems running reliably and performing as designed.

Our proven conduction cooling technology (ANSI/VITA 48.2) delivers reliability in a highly rugged package. Our air-cooled technologies are optimized to manage air streams enabling payloads cards and their associated mezzanine cards to remain cool.

To cool payloads with higher power requirements associated with the latest generation of data center CPU, FPGA, and GPU processors, our Air-Flow-Through (AFT – ANSI/VITA 48.8) technology is relied upon. When processing density is at its highest, our Liquid-Flow-Through (LFT –  ANSI/VITA  48.4) and fluid-flow-through (FFT) technologies are trusted to remove more waste heat than any other approach.

Curtiss-Wright cooling technologies are engineered to deliver reliable, deterministic processing performance while building in ease of maintenance and EMI, dust, water/moisture, and salt protection.

Our card-level packaging solutions are compatible with efficient modern embedded cooling approaches for ease of integration. We have developed natural convection, forced and air conditioning, conduction/baseplate, liquid, and hybrid cooling solutions at the system level.

Cooling Approaches

Air-Flow-Through (AFT)  
Air-Flow-Through (AFT)

Ideal for high density, high power (150-200W) computing applications where conductive or convective cooling methods are less viable

Conduction Cooling  
Conduction Cooling

Ideal for lower density (50W) computing applications that require ruggedization

Convection Cooling  
Convection Cooling

Transfer of heat from electronics into the ambient air using airflow

Liquid-Flow-Through Cooling  
Liquid-Flow-Through Cooling

LFT cooling uses a liquid-cooled system to cool cards from 200-1000W.

Fluid-Flow-Through Cooling  
Fluid-Flow-Through Cooling

FFT cooling uses fixed channels (air-cooled or liquid-cooled) built into the chassis to cool the electronics