Status updates on the latest VITA standards such as 48.0, 48.1, and 48.2 are provided, among others. (more…)
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The military’s venerable MIL-HDBK-217 has been around for more than 40 years; it’s time to add some quantitative and practical recomm...
While x86 processors continue to creep into VME backplanes for command and control applications, PowerPCs still do most of the heavy lifting in a...
Initially, in the board business, there were only three variations in business models: representative sales teams vs. direct sales teams, nationa...
Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) electronics developers face a host of challenges when designing for mission-critical systems. However, the advent...
Tom Cox, head of the RapidIO Trade Association, knows a thing or two about VME backplanes due to his decades in the embedded and VME industries. ...
FPGAs are increasingly utilized in embedded system designs, especially in the I/O portion of embedded systems to implement complex I/O interfaces...
Now responsible for the company’s system integration efforts, the Santa Clarita, California location of CWCEC is the former home of VISTA C...
As embedded system components steadily advance in clock rates and I/O speeds, designers struggle to keep ahead of increasing interboard data tran...