Elma Electronic

Fremont, CA 94538

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About Elma Electronic

Elma Electronic provides mission critical equipment for demanding defense programs across the world.
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Product Summary

We design and manufacture integrated subsystems, rugged chassis, ATRs and board-level solutions for high-performance embedded computing for a wide range of applications.

Contact

44350 S Grimmer Blvd
Fremont, CA 94538
United States
https://www.elma.com
510-656-3400
510-656-3783

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Elma Electronic Inc. has a long history of delivering rugged embedded computing subsystems for mission critical equipment in some of the most demanding defense programs across the world. Elma designs and builds precision, high-speed backplanes, rugged electronics enclosures, hardware and subsystems assemblies following a modular open systems approach (MOSA) and using open architectures such as SOSA™, CMOSS and OpenVPX. Our hardware is used in C5ISR, EW, SIGINT, and sensor-based defense applications.

Participating in open standards organizations like SOSA™ and VITA enable us to quickly deliver agile embedded solutions. Our 901D/810E cabinets are unrivaled and trusted to protect equipment in the harshest environments.

We maintain multi-decades-long relationships with our customers by consistently delivering highly reliable embedded systems solutions for use in land, air and sea defense platforms. Our customers deliver platforms used in C5ISR, SIGINT, EW and sensor-based defense applications.

Products

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ATR-3600S is an off-the-shelf half-ATR specifically designed for deployable applications requiring alignment with the SOSA Technical Standard.
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Elma’s all-new CompacFrame is the next-generation portable test platform designed to accelerate the development and test of plug-in cards (PICs) aligned to the SOSA Technical ...
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Elma has served the defense industry needs for years and is a key participant in open standards organizations such as VITA and SOSA™.
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Elma’s all new CompacFrame platform accelerates the development and test of 3U plug-in-cards (PICs) designed according to VITA 48.8, Air Flow Through Cooling standard. The 3U ...
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Convection, conduction and liquid cooled ATR enclosures support a wide-range of applications for Land, Air and Sea.
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Jetsys-5320 drives critical AI applications at the edge with a rugged small form factor enclosure.
High Speed PCIe Mezzanine Storage Card and PCIe Controller
VITA 42.3 XMC adapter card with three M.2 SSD sites. Each M.2 site supports one lane of PCIe Gen 2 connectivity at 5 Gb/s per lane when a Gen 2 or 3 capable M.2 PCIe card is used...
ComSys-5301 Rugged, Compact Computing System
The ComSys-5301 is a rugged computer with leading edge CPU options and COM Express based modularity plus high capacity solid state storage in a sturdy chassis. It features robust...
SOSA / CMOSS VPX Development Environment
This 3U OpenVPX system is a complete test environment platform intended to support application development efforts where conformance with the hardware convergence requirements...
3U VPX SOSA / CMOSS Backplane Supporting DoD System Convergence Directives
This 12-slot 3U OpenVPX backplane (12 payload +2 power supply slots) supports the defense industry’s h/w and s/w convergence initiatives for modular architecture. It is an integration...

Press Releases

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Elma Electronic has released a rugged, short 1/2 ATR that is designed for deployable applications requiring alignment with The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture.
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Elma Electronic will be demonstrating a MORA-Ready Development Platform at the 2023 Sea Air Space event.
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Optical fiber and RF connectivity implemented across multiple slot optionsTechnology Highlights· Rugged 3U OpenVPX series aligned with SOSA · Expanded series to support DoD MOSA...
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More types of quick-turn units available to help speed development timeFREMONT, Calif., November 2022 – Elma Electronic has increased the selection of popular chassis and development...
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Multiple partner demos set for viewing at AUSA 2022Highlights:· Six demonstrations representing the SOSA ecosystem· Five industry partners across three live demonstrations· Different...

Videos

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Elma’s CompacFrame series are designed to offer a broad choice of ready to use or tailored development platforms for systems based on 3U VPX or aligned to the SOSA standard. The...
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Elma’s E18 mechanical-incremental encoders are designed and produced to provide a quality, robust encoder with great turning feel at an affordable cost point. Applications include...

Resources

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ATR-3600S is an off-the-shelf half-ATR specifically designed for deployable applications requiring alignment with the SOSA Technical Standard.

Articles

The Elma SOSA-aligned and MOSA-conformant embedded computing backplane is for EW, reconnaissance, and surveillance applications.
Backplane supports the U.S. military's Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) mandate, and offers six VITA 65 slots and one VITA 62 power supply slot.
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Elma's MRDP uses the Sciens helux Core MORA RF tools to help the user view, evaluate, and control MORA resources to explore device capabilities.
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Mission-ready chassis comes with 7-slot backplane for six conduction-cooled SOSA-aligned plug-in cards, and one VITA 62 power supply.
The SOSA-aligned embedded computing development chassis includes a VITA 46.11 chassis manager with Ethernet and serial ports accessible at the rear.
The conduction-cooled VITA 48.2 3U VPX router serves as an aggregation point for on-demand network connectivity in mobile or fixed deployments.
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Six-slot chassis includes military-grade components like MIL-STD-38999 connectors and high-altitude fan tray that operates under extreme conditions.
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The rugged AI embedded computing system delivers 275 teraoperations per second and offers expansion sites for custom I/O and storage requirements.
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The JetKit-3010 embedded computing kit uses the integrated deep learning capabilities and I/O of the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier GPGPU.
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CompacFrame has as many as eight slots, comes with either a 6- or an 8-slot backplane, and is tilted upwards by 5 degrees for viewing and card access.
General Micro Systems is using the second generation of the company’s RuggedCool thermal management technology to squeeze every bit of heat possible out of conduction-cooled circuit boards.
Embedded computing designers squeeze the most out of conduction, convection, and liquid cooling, and look to the future of disaggregated architectures and 3D printing.

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