Until recently, the use of moving liquid to remove excess heat from embedded computing processors was considered an expensive and unreliable luxury, but escalating demand and maturing technologies finally are putting this technology within reach.

As aircraft embedded systems grow in complexity and the aviation industry embraces hybrid electric power, new methods of cooling are emerging to resolve thermal management and overheating challenges.

COTS-based electro-mechanical Turret Drive Servo System can lower cost, speed deployment.

Ivan Straznicky explains how liquid cooling is becoming more efficient and affordable to give systems designers a leg-up in the battle against electronics heat.

Curtiss-Wright Selected by Rheinmetall to Provide Prototype Turret Drive System for Main Battle Tank Upgrade Program For use in the Assessment Phase of the UK MoD’s Challenger 2 Battle Tank Life Extension Program.

VITA 48.8 represents an approach for cooling embedded systems using an air flow through (AFT) technique that significantly reduces the SWaP-C of deployed electronics devices.

Helen Haxell looks at how ANSI/VITA 48.8, could soon be applied to the next generation of aircraft, including Future Vertical Lift (FVL).

The emergence of smaller components with more processing capability while operating at much lower power has had the counterintuitive effect of increasing thermal density, with designers expected to pack even more functionality into ever-smaller spaces.