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Reliability is a key requirement for military and aerospace systems and assemblies. Curtiss-Wright has been highly focused on ruggedness and reliability as a leading supplier of COTS [commercial off-the-shelf] electronics for more than 30 years. Over a decade ago, as lead-free (LF) components started to become mainstream, we developed strategies and a vast amount of technical expertise for dealing with this huge change. The result of these extensive efforts is that we are able to offer customers the choice, based on their requirements and preferences, of both tin-lead solder and LF solder-based designs, with both exhibiting the high reliability that customers need and expect from Curtiss-Wright. We now have over ten years of LF product reliability data to back up our claim of being the trusted, proven leader in rugged electronics reliability.
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VITA standards activity updates
Note: This update is based on the results of the March 2021 standards meeting. Contact VITA if you are interested in participating in any of these working groups. Visit the VITA website (http://www.vita.com) for details on upcoming VITA meetings.
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VITA Hall of Fame
Since the announcement of VMEbus in 1981, there have been a great number of people and ideas that have had an impact on the development and advancement of open standards used in critical embedded computing systems. The intention of the VITA Technologies Hall of Fame is to honor and preserve the remembrance of those people and technologies that have had the greatest influence on the VITA open standards industry. Many others are to come – innovators and influencers, who have made a significant impact on developing, designing, and creating the technology and then ferrying the technical specifications into open standards. These are the people who have overcome the technical and procedural problems to help bring forth the products that set new expectations. It is our pleasure to honor these primary contributors to this industry.
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Embedded Tech Trends 2021 Wrap-up
In January, Embedded Tech Trends 2021 was held virtually using Zoom video webinars and the Kahoot! game-based quiz platform. The one-day session – traditionally held over several days of in-person meetings – was attended by 21 members of the media as special-panelist guests and by 123 attendees in the audience.
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VITA TECHNOLOGIES 2021 RESOURCE GUIDE
THE VITA TECHNOLOGIES 2021 RESOURCE GUIDE showcases technologies and products based on VITA standards. The product categories are hardware/embedded hardware, EMC, OpenVPX, VME, VPX, OpenVPX, and XMC. Also in this issue: A wrap-up of the virtual Embedded Tech Trends 2021, updates on the activity of the VITA Standards Organization, data transport using sFPDP, and more. [...]
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VITA 49: VITA Radio Transport (VRT) Standard in Action
VITA is probably best known for hardware standards used for backplane-based computers. Occasionally, however, a software standard emerges out of a VITA working group. One of the most successful and widely used VITA standards is the VITA 49 family. Simply stated, VITA 49 defines a protocol standard that enables message interoperability between equipment from multiple vendors.
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Pfizer Fit
What a difference a year makes!
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Versatility is key as OpenVPX enclosure requirements continue to evolve
Despite the fact that OpenVPX is an open standard architecture, there is a significant amount of variation of system platforms. The application needs for OpenVPX systems continue to evolve rapidly. New challenges brought by the SOSA [Sensor Open Systems Architecture] Consortium’s efforts; new complementary VITA [VMEbus International Trade Association] standards; size, weight, and power (SWaP) concerns; the expanding number of backplane profiles; and SpaceVPX implementations are requiring a versatile approach by the backplane/enclosure developers.
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Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA): Enabling the next generation of flexible and adaptable radar systems
In order to keep up with the continued acceleration of new technology and to be able to protect the warfighter from the latest threats, it is essential that we can turn our deployed platforms into adaptable entities that can evolve over time and are not static. The SOSA [Sensor Open Systems Architecture] Technical Standard is the next major step in realizing this goal.
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VITA Technologies Winter 2021 Application Guide
THE VITA TECHNOLOGIES 2021 APPLICATION GUIDE features articles on Level Four packaging using optics, VPX/OpenVPX enclosure design, and the vagaries of simulating an FPGA when dealing with FACE and SOSA compliance.
Ivan Straznicky, Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions
