Articles
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Unmanned Vehicles - An Essential Component of Homeland Security
With the buildup toward a possible conflict in the Middle East and the continued concerns about homeland security, one of the key technologies to be deployed will be unmanned vehicles. Deployed on land and in the air, these unmanned vehicles will be us...
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VITA Update: August 2003
European business The Embedded Systems Show (ESS) in London draws about 3000 visitors each year. The two-day event, held May 14-15, is the UK's largest event for system design and embedded software development. The technical conference program pres...
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Lifecycle management and the impact of obsolescence on military systems
COTS is not the cause of many of the issues related to obsolescence today, though some early experiences with COTS quickly highlighted serious concerns over product availability and board vendors' unwillingness to extend the life of their products or even to offer compatibility through successive generations for technology insertion. Many programs did not appreciate the impact of obsolescence and the consequent need to adopt very rigorous vendor screening procedures to mitigate its effects. Now that the use of COTS has matured, the models have been developed to make the right choices for the management of obsolete parts, boards, and subsystems and the need to sustain their operational mission effectiveness for the platform life.
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VITA Europe News
VMEbus technology products and projects Several unique products were released at CAEN (Italy) including low cost serial interface boards for USB 2.0 (VMEbus card V1718), and two versions of an optical link board (V2718 and V2818) that act as a PCI ...
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VITA Standards : Tough Work on the Horizon
VITA has been working on numerous specifications that implement some of the new fabric technologies coming to market (InfiniBand, RapidIO, StarFabric, etc.), both on traditional VME boards (VITA 41) and on pure fabric architectures (VITA 34). Primarily...
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Fitting VME to the Needs of Defense and Aerospace
There has been a lot of speculation of late that VME has reached its natural limits as a fresh enough architecture to continue to capture the large number of new design wins necessary to sustain its market momentum. Certainly CompactPCI is an alternati...
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VITA Standards : Bus & Boards Conference Roundup
The third annual Bus & Board (& Fabrics) conference held January 20-21 in Long Beach, CA was again a standing-room-only event, as the open-architecture bus board industry came together for an update on the latest technical developments and mark...
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Defense and Aerospace: VMEbus Moves Even Faster
With the buildup toward a possible conflict in the Middle East and the continued concerns about homeland security, one of the key technologies to be deployed will be unmanned vehicles. Deployed on land and in the air, these unmanned vehicles will be us...
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Adding Security Features to VME Just Got Easier
Global events continue to increase the requirement for security in applications ranging from defense and aerospace to communications and electronic storage. Security solutions have been refined over the past half- century and are just now appearing on ...
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VITA Standards: VME Goes Liquid
There are two prevailing doctrines for cooling electronics today: 1) pack your electronic components sparsely so you can cool them economically with air (convection), or 2) pack your electronics densely so you can use a more efficient coolant like liqu...
Ray Alderman, VITA Standards Organization
Greg Novak,