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COSA Technology

Our massively Configurable Open Systems Architecture™ (COSA®) gives you the most modular, agile and rugged COTS portfolio of embedded smart modules, I/O boards, Single Board Computers, Power Supplies and Ruggedized Systems of its kind. All are pre-engineered to work together today and be easily changed, reused or re-purposed down the road. We’ve used FPGAs and SoCs to create smart modules that enable you to rapidly create configurable mission systems – while reducing or eliminating SBC overhead.

COSA meets a wide range of complex and time-critical requirements in a distributed, intelligent, software-driven architecture that allows you to rethink the way you engineer power-critical and I/O-intensive mission systems.

Distributed I/O with Single API Programmability
Optimized SWaP
Elimination of Non-Recurring Engineering Charges
COSA® - Congifurable Open Systems Architecture™

The breadth of available, off-the-shelf functions makes it likely that we can meet your I/O requirements, no matter how intense or precise, better than any other COTS systems supplier and without NRE.

COSA Modules Boards Systems Diagram
COSA Software and Processing Diagram
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COSA Modules, Boards & Systems

Over 70 high-density, COSA smart modules are available for placement on our intelligent I/O Boards, which can operate as standalone systems. Further, our OpenVPX, VME, cPCI and PCIe boards can be placed into Rugged COSA Systems that range from a single module to high-density systems supporting up to 10 motherboards and 60 smart modules (and virtually everything between).

COSA Software & Processing Advantages

Dedicated FPGAs embedded on our smart modules provide unique software and processing advantages that drive time and cost out of our customer’s design, development and qualification schedules. The programmability, intelligence and self-monitoring capabilities put more I/O capability into the modules themselves so you can reduce the processing load on the SBC and deliver more capabilities at the edges of your applications.

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> 70 Function Modules
I/O Boards or SBCs (VPX, VME or CPCI)
Multiple Rugged Chassis Options
Rugged Power Supply
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> 70 Function Modules

Select 3-6 Smart Function Modules (based on 3U or 6U form factor) that deliver the functionality your application requires:

I/O
Analog-to-Digital
Digital-To-Analog
Discrete
Differential Discrete
TTL/CMOS
Relays
Chip Detect / Fuzz Burn
Variable Reluctance
Measurement & Simulation
AC Reference
LVDT/RVDT Measurement & Sim.
Strain Gage Measurement
Synchro/Resolver Measurement & Sim.
Thermal Measurement
Communication
CANBus
ARINC 429/575 568/579
Ethernet Switch
IEEE 1394
Serial
Time-Triggered Ethernet
MIL-STD-1553B
MIL-STD-1760
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I/O Boards or SBCs (VPX, VME or CPCI)

Select an I/O Board or SBC that meets your form factor & Operating System needs.

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Rugged Power Supply

The resulting configured board(s) can then be combined with one of our rugged power supplies into a Rugged COTS System chassis of your choice.

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Just How Configurable Are NAI's COTS Systems?

70

Smart Function Modules

6

Max. Slots Per Card

18

Max. Functions Per Interface Unit

Our COSA® Architecture gives you more than 1.4 Quadrillion possible system configurations...That's 2 million times more than the Earth's population!

NAI's highly Configurable Open Systems Architecture™ (COSA®) enables you to leverage our portfolio of pre-integrated modules, boards, systems and power supplies to quickly and easily meet complex mission processing requirements – today and down the road.

Configurable Systems
  • NIU1A
  • 6.8” x 1.5” x 2.5”
  • 1 Function Slot
  • 70 Configurations
  • NIU2A
  • 7.0” x 3.0” x 2.5”
  • 2 Function Slots
  • 2,415 Configurations
  • NIU3A
  • 7.2" x 5.65" x 3.25"
  • 3 Function Slots
  • 62,196 Configurations
  • SIU33
  • 4.78" W x 4.71" H x 8.71" D
  • 9 Function Slots
  • > 97 Billion Configurations
  • SIU35
  • 7.13" x 4.78" x 8.71"
  • 15 Function Slots
  • > 1.4 Quadrillion Configurations
  • SIU36
  • 7.13" x 4.78" x 9.39"
  • 18 Function Slots
  • > 54 Quadrillion Configurations
Possible Configurations are calculated based on the single use of all smart function modules per total function slots available.

Simply select an enclosure of your choice and NAI will populate it with pre-integrated boards, smart function modules, power supplies and software libraries of your choice. See the possibilities with our most popular systems below.

NAI offers 6 standard COTS configurable systems that NAI can populate with pre-integrated boards, smart function modules, power supplies and software libraries of your choice.

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Application Ready Systems

Designed for a variety of defense and harsh environment mission-critical applications, these pre-configured, processor-based COTS-based computing platforms can be deployed as soon as your application is ready.

  • Data Acquisition Systems
  • Fire Control & Targeting Systems
  • Vehicle Management Systems
  • Integrated Vehicle Health & Monitoring
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