Jerry Gipper, Editorial Director
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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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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.
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VITA standards activity updates
Note: Since March, the VITA standards meetings have all been virtual-only via WebEx. This update is based on the results of the September 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. ANSI accreditation Accredited as an American National Standards [...]
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VPX Performance Boost
VITA members have been working on performance improvements to the VPX roadmap for the past several years. The trends: New applications demand ever-increasing amounts of bandwidth. At the same time, the community seeks a migration path that preserves the work done over the past 15 years. Higher data-rate protocols are being designed into OpenVPX [...]
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Kovid Krazy
Last spring, I wrote about our entry into the first phase of COVID-19 pandemic with sheltering in place to slow the spread. That went reasonably well for a couple of months, but the natives got restless and now we are breaking new case and death numbers every day, in every corner of the U.S. In [...]
