Jerry Gipper, Editorial Director
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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?
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The evolution of VPX I/O
Today’s processing capability is far outpacing the ability to collect and bring data into the processing stream. System architects continuously struggle to optimize schemes for the best system performance. VPX is designed to give architects the best options possible, while bringing the maximum amount of I/O into a slot and then getting it into the [...]
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Today’s market trends for VITA standards and related technologies
By Brian Arbuckle Reliable market data for critical and embedded computing technology is hard to come by, and even more so when zeroing in on VITA technologies. To better understand the size of the ecosystem for VME, VPX, PMC, and FMC technologies, VITA joined with Brian Arbuckle, analyst with Embedded Market Research, during summer 2021 to conduct research on technologies based on key VITA standards.
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VMEbus: Forty and Fit!
Very few computer-related technologies exist in the industry for more than a few years. This past October 21st marked the 40th anniversary of the announcement of VMEbus. This event is especially significant given the fact that VMEbus is still an extremely practical solution for critical embedded computing. VMEbus has had a profound impact on the open standards community, playing a key role as an influencer in modular open system architecture (MOSA) initiatives.
