Jerry Gipper, Editorial Director
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VITA TECHNOLOGIES 2021 RESOURCE GUIDE
THE VITA TECHNOLOGIES 2021 RESOURCE GUIDE showcases technologies and products based on VITA standards. The product categories are hardware/embedded hardware, EMC, OpenVPX, VME, VPX, OpenVPX, and XMC. Also in this issue: A wrap-up of the virtual Embedded Tech Trends 2021, updates on the activity of the VITA Standards Organization, data transport using sFPDP, and more. [...]
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VITA 49: VITA Radio Transport (VRT) Standard in Action
VITA is probably best known for hardware standards used for backplane-based computers. Occasionally, however, a software standard emerges out of a VITA working group. One of the most successful and widely used VITA standards is the VITA 49 family. Simply stated, VITA 49 defines a protocol standard that enables message interoperability between equipment from multiple vendors.
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Pfizer Fit
What a difference a year makes!
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VITA Announces Dean Holman as VP and Assistant Executive Director
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK. March 17, 2021 -- VITA, the trade association for standard computing architectures serving critical embedded systems industries, announced that Dean Holman has accepted a position as VITA VP and Assistant Executive Director, effective March 1, 2021.
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VITA Technologies Winter 2021 Application Guide
THE VITA TECHNOLOGIES 2021 APPLICATION GUIDE features articles on Level Four packaging using optics, VPX/OpenVPX enclosure design, and the vagaries of simulating an FPGA when dealing with FACE and SOSA compliance.
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VITA standards activity updates
Note: Since March, the VITA standards meetings have all been virtual-only via WebEx. This update is based on the results of the September 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. ANSI accreditation Accredited as an American National Standards [...]
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VPX Performance Boost
VITA members have been working on performance improvements to the VPX roadmap for the past several years. The trends: New applications demand ever-increasing amounts of bandwidth. At the same time, the community seeks a migration path that preserves the work done over the past 15 years. Higher data-rate protocols are being designed into OpenVPX [...]
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Kovid Krazy
Last spring, I wrote about our entry into the first phase of COVID-19 pandemic with sheltering in place to slow the spread. That went reasonably well for a couple of months, but the natives got restless and now we are breaking new case and death numbers every day, in every corner of the U.S. In [...]
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VITA Hall of Fame
Since the announcement of VMEbus in 1981, there have been a great number of people and ideas that have had an impact on the development and advancement of open standards used in critical embedded computing systems. The intention of the VITA Technologies Hall of Fame is to honor and preserve the remembrance of those people [...]
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Embedded Tech Trends 2020 Wrapup
In January, Embedded Tech Trends 2020 was held in Atlanta, Georgia at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center in midtown Atlanta, home of Georgia Tech University. The theme for 2020 was “Inventing! Connecting! Inspiring! Thriving!” The presenters were encouraged to weave this theme into their presentations. Embedded Tech Trends is a small but extremely [...]
