System Requirements Drive OpenVPX and VME Choices
Military system designers have the tough task of continually developing the most technologically superior applications. All are looking to win in this highly competitive market, andRead More...
OpenVPX and VME Contend with Overlaps and Differences
Since its beginning in the early 1980s, VME has evolved and even mutated in later years. The evolution was driven by the desire to support faster and newer technologies such asRead More...
CompactPCI Holds its Ground in SWaP-critical Systems
The CompactPCI embedded form factor has achieved the maturity and broad product range that military system designers so crave. Now well into its second decade of existence, the 3URead More...
VPX Meets Needs of High-Performance Avionics Systems
Traditional high-performance computing platforms are limited by the connection bandwidth and latency between the multiple computing elements needed to achieve the performanceRead More...
VPX Stakes Its Territory as High Data Bandwidth Solution
Work began on the VPX family of specifications in early 2004 to offer new levels of performance for embedded computing systems, as high-speed processing and growing dataRead More...
VME and VPX Solutions Feed Growing Appetite for ISR Data Processing
In recent years demand for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities has driven a huge ramp-up in data collection capacity. While that shows no signs ofRead More...
Where SWaP Meets Stronger and Faster in OpenVPX Systems
There’s no doubt that today’s military electronics design requirements are headed in a particular direction—and it’s all the more vivid when it comes to the design of ruggedizedRead More...
PXI and PXI Express Dominate Test and Instrumentation Trends
No longer the new kid on the block, the PXI bus form factor has become entrenched as the mainstay architecture for military test and instrumentation. Its older cousin VXI and theRead More...
COM Express Continues its Quick Ascent toward Military Acceptance
In the past 12 months, COM Express has emerged as one of the common formats among new small form factor product rollouts. The Computer-on-Module (COM) concept has found a solid andRead More...
VME, cPCI and VPX Fuel Technology Upgrade Efforts
While tech upgrades and tech insertion have long been a mainstay for standards-based embedded computing, those activities are quickly moving to center stage these days. In this eraRead More...
