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Continuous innovation harnessed via VPX ecosystem

I am often approached by individuals and companies that are new to the world of VPX. One of the first questions they ask is, “What does the business ecosystem look like for VPX technology?” My first response is that it is a collection of suppliers and users with VPX as a common interest. But usually the question begs more detail; who the players are and what role they fulfill are foremost among the critical points.…

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Intel Embedded Innovator

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Elma Electronic

3U OpenVPX Backplanes – start with the innovation leader

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Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc.

High Performance FPGA OpenVPX Boards

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Designing with VPX: Ensuring efficient speed, cooling, and interoperability

Serge Tissot Kontron

Of the two VPX mechanical form factors, 3U is very popular in certain applications, and 6U is sometimes necessary to build highly parallel systems with optimal computing density. While air and conduction cooling are often implemented to address cooling challenges, liquid cooling solutions can be effective for designs at the chassis, board, and chip levels. Today’s designs must be standardized for VPX to maintain interoperability and availability of common building blocks, and to ensure the…

Solve VPX backplane problems before you deploy

Brian Roberts Dawn VME Products

The backplane is the backbone of a VPX system, contoured to the final system configuration. It would be extremely valuable for designers to have a way to evaluate the top options in a working configuration before the final backplane was developed. The following discussion presents an interesting case for using backplane overlays to effectively evaluate the best options.

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Behlman

Behlman announces another Reconfiguration Program success that solves the VPX AC-to-DC Power Supply, 3-phase versus 1-phase, input power problem.

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TEWS Technologies

16 Channel Thermocouple/RTD/Strain-Measurement XMC

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Innovative Integration

PXIe XMC + XU TX for >3GHz Bandwidth for 5G Design & Testing!

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Managing COTS obsolescence for military systems

Sally Cole Senior Editor

The short life cycles of commercial components create many obsolescence headaches for military electronic-system designers as they try to integrate these high-performance devices into air, ground, sea platforms that must last for decades, that have long system development cycles, and time-consuming testing procedures. As the military looks to leverage more open architectures and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology, the challenge of managing the obsolescence that comes with COTS will only become more difficult.

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Business barometer: 2017 trend predictions

Jerry Gipper Editorial Director

Trend predictions during an election year are extremely challenging, especially in the circus election that is going on in the United States right now. By the time you read this, it will all be over, and there is a good chance that I may be headed to Australia for a few years! Here goes my attempt to share a few highlights for what developments I expect to unfold in the market next year.

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Technology insertion: Balancing performance and stability

Charlotte Adams Abaco Systems

Embedded computing systems have benefited enormously from the flood of innovation in the electronics industry: Military programs over the years have enjoyed ever faster processors, smaller form factors, and steadily declining prices per unit of performance.