Blog Posts (older)
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"Coopetition" yields VME's success: Q&A with Lyman Hevle
Lyman (Lym) Hevle was in marketing at Motorola Microsystems when VMEbus was introduced. He was also the founder of the VMEbus International Trade Association (VITA). Contributing editor Jerry Gipper, an old friend from the early VME days, recently reminisced with Lym. Edited and excerpted comments follow.
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Mostek's perspective on VME
Craig MacKenna was chief technical representative from Mostek in the discussions with Motorola and Signetics that led to the VMEbus. He was later the designer of Mostek’s first VME processor board. After that, he “hung in” through several years of tedious standardization efforts that led to IEEE 1014 and IEC 821, which are official specs describing the VMEbus. Craig points readers to Wikipedia’s description of VME’s history.
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Forecasting the Future
I have seen and heard about serial connections running at 10G, 12G, 16G, 20G, and 40G in the past year or so, some over copper. It is clear that this march up the frequency curve will be with us for the foreseeable future, and harbors some difficult engineering problems.
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Defense Spending
We have all read and heard tales about a slowdown in military/COTS spending in the first part of 2006. According to new information, we turned the corner in Q-2 of this year, and MIL/COTS spending is increasing.
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VITA speaks on ex ante IP procedures
VITA recently revealed that the organization is formalizing procedures for ex ante Intellectual Property (IP). According to VITA, ex ante means “anticipating changes in the business environment” and, when established, should “minimize and eliminate many patent issues that could affect our VSO standards, our members, compliant products, and our customers in the future,” says VITA Executive Director Ray Alderman.
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Market Numbers on New Cooling Technologies
Business Communications Company has released preliminary information on the markets for cooling technologies on chips, boards, and chassis for 2003 to 2008 (forecasted). I have included the numbers in a chart below.
Craig MacKenna, Mostek
