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Addressing the needs of safety- and security-critical applications such as primary flight instrumentation and multi-level security (MLS) systems, Quantum3D recently announced the Sentiris AV1 PCI Express Mezzanine Card (XMC). The vendor claims an obsolescence-proof design by incorporating a field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based video- and graphics-processing core instead of the traditional dedicated graphics processing units (GPUs). The hardware, the core of which is Xilinx’s Virtex 5 FPGA, is programmed as an embedded GPU that can be upgraded over the lifetime of the product. While originally designed for applications such as flight-certified image generation, Sentiris AV1 is also applicable for other uses, such as real-time imaging for medical applications. The product’s video- and graphics-processing capabilities with analog and HD-SDI video outputs enable three-dimensional graphics in cockpits and mission-critical applications. In addition to its safety-critical DO-178B and DO-254 compatibility, the module meets the shock, vibration, temperature and other requirements of MIL-STD-810F. Sentiris AV1 offers 512MB of ECC-protected DDR2 memory, dual RGB and dual HD-SDI outputs and eight lanes of PCI Express. The product comes standard as a conduction-cooled XMC. Quantum3D currently supports Sentiris AV1 with Linux drivers. Pricing for the Sentiris AV1 starts at $9,980 USD.