As I was contemplating this column and basking in the glow of two fabulous tech trade shows – National Instruments' NIWeek 2008 and the Int...
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With Moore's Law forging a shift toward multicore, VME system designers will face migration challenges as they consider which type of migration i...
A new breed of static analysis tools has recently become available for finding serious programming flaws in software, and its use is rapidly beco...
VITA technical director John Rynearson gives an update on the latest VITA standards, including VITA 41.6, 41.8, 42.0, 46.3, 46.10, 46.12, 49.0, a...
Find status reports on the latest VITA standards such as VITA 41.6, 42, 46, 48, 49, and more. (more…)
Avionics applications that require I/O access to aircraft data buses typically access these buses via the low-level C style API libraries supplie...
Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) platforms enable developers to integrate multiple discrete applications of different safety-criticality levels ...
After Apple announced its intention to buy PowerPC processor vendor P.A. Semi back in April, rumors began swirling that the big guns at the DoD w...
3U VME, once a staple of the architecture, faded from the mainstream many years ago. However, the overall benefits of a 3U format have led archit...
It should come as no surprise to you that we are awash in new form factors in the embedded space. Form factors are essentially the size (length, ...