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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...
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Is VMEbus Stuck in a Time Warp?
More than 20 years old and still going strong, VMEbus is seeing a very definite revival in interest and not just in defense and aerospace, one of its strongest markets. Defense and aerospace applications have a number of special requirements, which the...
Ray Alderman, VITA Standards Organization
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