AI, standards are transforming military boards and modules

Artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to impact defense-industry surveillance and analysis systems, prompting a transformation in board and module designs. Suppliers of these systems are modifying design parameters as military planners move toward standardization.

A range of military suppliers that develop products ranging from sensors and processing boards down to connectors examined changing design requirements at the recent Embedded Tech Trends conference, sponsored by the VITA standards organization. Many speakers detailed the rising interest in AI, which is being explored as a way to analyze the huge volumes of data gathered by remote sensors. Image processing and AI are typically processed by highly-parallel graphical processing units (GPUs), which are playing a larger role in boards and modules.