VITA Standards Organization

By Ken Braund and Alan Roath

VITA Standards Organization

By Patrick Collier and Michael Walmsley

Jerry Gipper Editorial Director

Life is back to normal! I’m starting to sweat vaccine! Flu, shingles, and five COVID-19 vaccinations in the past couple of years. Mask wearing is only as needed or required. Traveling is definitely feeling normal. We have held four VITA Standards Organization in-person meetings this year and the in-person participation has increased each time. We are finally back to the level of attendance we had pre-pandemic. It is great to have meetings in person once again!

MicroMax Computer Intelligence

The M-Max® VI 1 DS from MicroMax Computer Intelligence is a fully sealed rugged computer system with passive cooling, providing reliable operation in tough environments including transportation, agriculture, mining and processing.

Bill Ripley

By Bill Ripley, Andy Walker, and Mehmet Adalier

VITA 90 is a new small-form-factor (SFF) draft proposed standard that is a direct descendant of VITA 74, an inherently rugged module standard with a compelling size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) proposition that is ideal for many military and aerospace applications.

Dean Holman, VITA Executive Director

“Open Standards, Open Markets.” As the premier standards-development organization in the critical embedded computing space, this tag line could not be more accurate!

John McHale, Editorial Director

FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz. VITA, the trade association for standard computing architectures serving critical embedded-systems industries, announced that Dean Holman is VITA's President and Executive Director, effective February 1, 2022. Jerry Gipper, the previous Executive Director, will continue as VITA’s Marketing Director.

Jerry Gipper Editorial Director

Today’s processing capability is far outpacing the ability to collect and bring data into the processing stream. System architects continuously struggle to optimize schemes for the best system performance. VPX is designed to give architects the best options possible, while bringing the maximum amount of I/O into a slot and then getting it into the [...]

Jerry Gipper Editorial Director

By Brian Arbuckle Reliable market data for critical and embedded computing technology is hard to come by, and even more so when zeroing in on VITA technologies. To better understand the size of the ecosystem for VME, VPX, PMC, and FMC technologies, VITA joined with Brian Arbuckle, analyst with Embedded Market Research, during summer 2021 to conduct research on technologies based on key VITA standards.

Jerry Gipper Editorial Director

Very few computer-related technologies exist in the industry for more than a few years. This past October 21st marked the 40th anniversary of the announcement of VMEbus. This event is especially significant given the fact that VMEbus is still an extremely practical solution for critical embedded computing. VMEbus has had a profound impact on the open standards community, playing a key role as an influencer in modular open system architecture (MOSA) initiatives.