John Rynearson —

A roundup of the latest news on evolving VITA standards.

John Rynearson —

John Rynearson provides the latest status on VITA standards currently in the works.

David Compston —

As the market has evolved, so has the role of VITA. Is that a good thing – or bad thing?

Hermann Strass —

This article tells you what’s happening in Europe.... (continues)

Ray Alderman —

This discusses the changes taking place in VME and the need for customers and manufacturers to have one foot in the past and the other in the fu... (continues)

Hermann Strass —

This article discusses the involvement of the European market in VITA.... (continues)

John Rynearson —

VSO stands for VITA Standards Organization and they meet to work on standards issues of importance to the bus and board industry. This article ... (continues)

Ray Alderman —

In this article Ray discusses what VME technologies are doing and where they are going.... (continues)

Hermann Strass —

Railway systems in Europe and Asia, logging billions of passenger miles and meeting stringent reliability and robustness requirements, are utilizing VME.

Chris A. Ciufo —

We’ve gone a while since the last notable COTS acquisition, but Curtiss-Wright is hot on the trail of VME provider VMETRO.

Ray Alderman —

Some think multicore and multiprocessing are the same, but not so, according to VITA's exec director Ray Alderman. Multiprocessing architectures such as Tightly Coupled/Shared-Everything (TCSE), Snugly Coupled/Shared-Something (SCSS), and Loosely Coupled/Shared-Nothing (LCSN) are explained, along with how heterogenous and homogenous multicore fit into the picture.

John Rynearson —

A roundup of the latest VITA standards happenings.

Doug Sandy —

Is multicore a viable choice for VME systems? Maybe, but elements such as migration type, AMP vs. SMP configurations, and performance must all be factored into the equation.

Ray Alderman —

The embedded market is proliferated with dozens of different form factors falling into three distinct categories: rack mounted; canned; and snap-on. But how has this segmentation affected high tech, and what are the motives behind it?

Hermann Strass —

RapidIO provides the increased bandwidth, reliability, and faster bus speeds demanded by the high-performance embedded industry. Accordingly, RapidIO Trade Association (RTA) executive director Tom Cox recently shared the RapidIO roadmap at the RTA's European Design Summit in Munich.

Larry M. Kinnan —

While IMA systems solve a number of operational and environmental problems for aircraft manufacturers, they present a number of issues that span the entire development cycle: the ability to transition the environment during development, integrate multiple vendors, support multiple connection methods, and ensure a partition-safe environment. However, using both software- and hardware-based tools utilizing a common Eclipse-based IDE is proving a viable remedy.

Troy Troshynski and Gabe Cook —

A next-gen C++ API is eliminating several avionics data bus engineering challenges. No longer must avionics application programmers become very familiar with the interface module's hardware implementation. Additionally, Object Oriented (OO) programming and design methods are supported, as are multiprocess, distributed applications,

Thomas Nygaard —

VPX has returned to defining both a 3U and 6U format, allowing designers to choose the best for their application. But the choice is not as simple as it seems on the surface. We learned in grade school that 3 is half of 6, but is 3U half of 6U?

Stephen Cunha —

COMs were designed to provide a streamlined method of implementing embedded computing with minimal developer effort. However, with many COM variations yet no standardization, embedded designers couldn't fully realize COMs' flexibility. Now VITA 59 is overcoming these difficulties and more by incorporating advanced cooling techniques, addressing shock and vibration, and keeping in mind both legacy and future technologies.

Michelle Lange —

FPGA and ASIC design complexity is becoming an issue for many safety-critical industries. What was once a discrete component is now merely a block in a bigger system, but all within a single chip. Each block has its own function and likely its own clocking requirements. Because the number of independent (and asynchronous) clock domains is on the rise, the probability of bugs due to CDC issues is also growing. Metastability is a resulting problem, but automated tools for CDC verification can overcome the shortcomings of manual approaches and ensure complete resolution.

Chris A. Ciufo —

Since Apple's purchase of PowerPC processor vendor P.A. Semi, Apple has apparently worked out a deal that will make an adequate supply of processors available for “at least three years.” But will that be enough for VME-based military programs?

Ray Alderman —

VME Technology has an indispensable place in the design of critical embedded systems. These are the systems that must be “able” in many dimensions, including: dependable, supportable, configurable, reliable, and serviceable. VME Technology is a favorite choice for critical embedded systems architectures around the world in countless applications.

Rodger H. Hosking —

The inner workings of the digital receiver are explored and actual digital receiver systems and commercially available products are described.