After 23 years as the industry’s leading publication dedicated to “all things VME,” VMEbus Systems magazine has found a new name – and an expanded focus. VME and Critical Systems – OpenSystems Publishing’s newly reinvented VME publication – continues to provide extensive coverage of industry-driving VME technologies, but with an increased focus on mission-, safety-, and life-critical embedded systems.

VME and Critical Systems is distributed to more than 21,000 engineers, managers, and decision makers in the US and abroad, providing new insight on systems-level developments, the latest VITA standards, and VSO status updates. The publication also includes in-depth technical articles and information on embedded VME-related products and strategies such as RTOS, COTS, mass storage, data acquisition, cooling, and simulation in applications such as avionics, radar, sonar, sensors, targeting systems, and test systems. Through its print magazines, website (www.vmecritical.com), annual product resource guide, e-letters, and e-site (www.VMEnow.com), VME and Critical Systems readers stay in-the-know about VME’s defining trends in the medical, industrial control, process control, military, and defense markets.

VME and Critical Systems’ industry-savvy team of editorial experts and columnists includes:

• Chris A. Ciufo, Group Editorial Director, OpenSystems Publishing
• Hermann Strass, European Representative, OpenSystems Publishing
• Ray Alderman, Executive Director, VITA
• John Rynearson, Technical Director, VITA
• John Wemekamp, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing

Topics covered include:

• Avionics: ARINC, bus monitors, data recorders, MIL-STD-1553, power supply, unmanned vehicles
• Commercial products: Analyzers, COTS, electronics packaging, interface cards, multiprocessing, power supplies (slot-card), test systems (including VXI)
• Communications: Network, shipboard, Software-Defined Radio, wireless
• Imaging systems: Frame grabber, graphics, night vision, target locator, video, medical
• New VITA standards: VITA 41 (VXS), VITA 46 (VPX), VITA 48 (REDI), and others
• Radar/Sonar: Radio scan converter, radar tracking, sonar data acquisition
• Rugged computer systems: Conduction-cooled, electronics packaging, flat panel combat display, mass storage, military I/O, mission-critical, safety-critical, life-critical, rugged chassis, spray cooled-ready (board)
• Surveillance systems: Data acquisition, DSP-based, FPGA-based, homeland defense, satellite, and telemetry
• Vehicle transportation systems: Embedded control, navigation and location, railway