Special Feature
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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 and technologies that have had the greatest influence on the VITA open standards industry. Many others are to come – innovators and influencers, who have made a significant impact on developing, designing, and creating the technology and then ferrying the technical specifications into open standards. These are the people who have overcome the technical and procedural problems to help bring forth the products that set new expectations. It is our pleasure to honor these primary contributors to this industry.
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Embedded Tech Trends 2021 Wrap-up
In January, Embedded Tech Trends 2021 was held virtually using Zoom video webinars and the Kahoot! game-based quiz platform. The one-day session – traditionally held over several days of in-person meetings – was attended by 21 members of the media as special-panelist guests and by 123 attendees in the audience.
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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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Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA): Enabling the next generation of flexible and adaptable radar systems
In order to keep up with the continued acceleration of new technology and to be able to protect the warfighter from the latest threats, it is essential that we can turn our deployed platforms into adaptable entities that can evolve over time and are not static. The SOSA [Sensor Open Systems Architecture] Technical Standard is the next major step in realizing this goal.
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2020 State of the VITA Technology Industry - Spring Edition
My report covers the state of the VITA technology industry in particular and of the board and system industry in general, in markets such as aerospace, defense, space, industrial, and more.
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SOSA and VITA: Working together for next-gen defense systems
The SOSA (Sensor Open Systems Architecture) Consortium is developing common open standards for designing, building, and deploying hardware, software, and firmware components of new military electronic systems. Contributing members to SOSA include the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) – including the Army, Navy, and Air Force – along with key representatives from industry and universities. The Sensor Open Systems Architecture [...]
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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 [...]
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Business Barometer
One of my favorite activities each year is to take a look at trends for the upcoming year, making predictions on where technology is headed. I have taken a swing at 2015 with some commentary on what happened in 2014 to support or disprove my predictions from last year.
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OpenVPX solves VPX interoperability challenges; plans for future features
Says OpenVPX’s founder Mercury Computer Systems: “interoperability – as planned.”
