Jerry Gipper, Editorial Director
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VITA standards development leads the way
VITA Standards Organization Background and History
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VITA standards activity updates
Note: This update is based on the results of the September 2022 VITA Standards Organization (VSO) meeting, held in San Diego and hosted by Cubic Corp. Contact VITA if you are interested in participating in any of these working groups. The full reports can be accessed at www.vita.com/StandardsUpdates. Visit the VITA web-site (http://www.vita.com) for details on upcoming VITA meetings.
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Masks off!
Life is back to normal! I’m starting to sweat vaccine! Flu, shingles, and five COVID-19 vaccinations in the past couple of years. Mask wearing is only as needed or required. Traveling is definitely feeling normal. We have held four VITA Standards Organization in-person meetings this year and the in-person participation has increased each time. We are finally back to the level of attendance we had pre-pandemic. It is great to have meetings in person once again!
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VITA standards activity updates
Note: This update is based on the results of the March 2022 VITA Standards Organization (VSO) meeting. Contact VITA if you are interested in participating in any of these working groups. The full reports is at www.vita.com/StandardsUpdates. Visit the VITA website (http://www.vita.com) for details on upcoming VITA meetings.
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Masks off!
Wow! That was quick! It didn’t take but a few minutes for the airlines and other public transportation to throw out the mask mandates! Within minutes of a federal judge ruling that the CDC had exceeded its authority on the in-flight mask mandate, the masks came off midflight. If you are like me, I’m sure that you are ready to move on to the next stage of the pandemic. I just became eligible for my fourth vaccination, so I need to get that on my calendar soon.
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VPX: The state of the ecosystem 2022
Paramount to the success of an industry is the strength of its encompassing business ecosystem. A thriving, stable ecosystem where every element works together forms a profitable market for everyone involved. As Investopedia puts it, “A business ecosystem consists of the network of organizations – including suppliers, distributors, customers, competitors, government agencies, and so on – involved in the delivery of a specific product or service through both competition and cooperation. Each entity in the ecosystem affects and is affected by the others, creating a constantly evolving relationship in which each entity must be flexible and adaptable in order to survive just as in a biological ecosystem.”
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SOSA Reaches a Key Milestone
The Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Consortium was formed under The Open Group in 2017 to enable government and industry to collaboratively develop open standards and best practices to enable, enhance and accelerate the deployment of affordable, capable, interoperable sensor systems. Since then, SOSA has been working diligently on getting their first standard released. This [...]
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Defining Standards--VITA 42: Switched Mezzanine Card (XMC) Picks Up Speed
Low-profile mezzanine cards are an important accessory for embedded computing systems. XMC (VITA 42) is a popular mezzanine based on switched protocol technologies. The standard recently went through a revision update. This article reviews the changes made to the standard.
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VITA standards activity updates
Note: This update is based on the results of the September 2021 VITA Standards Organization (VSO) 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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Salute to VMEbus!
This October we celebrated the 40th anniversary of the introduction of VMEbus! Who would have thought with the announcement on October 21, 1981, of VMEbus that we would see it have such an impact on the industry forty years later?
