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Tempe tapes out
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European business
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VITA Standards : New market segments for VME
The decline in technology markets has abated and new market segments are developing based on the application of new technologies on legacy products. There are several new VME market segments developing now and the VITA Standards Organization (VSO) has ...
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Making long distance recording possible with Serial FPDP
The VITA 17.1 standard defines Serial FPDP, a high-speed serial communications protocol for use in high-speed data transfer applications. It is directly related to the standard Front Panel Data Port (FPDP), deriving its serial protocol from the defined...
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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...
Jeffrey M. Harris,
Thomas Skrobacz,
