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VPX and VITA 46 - Military Embedded Systems and Beyond! ... |
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Does the military lead, or follow, commercial embedded systems? It can be hard to tell - especially in these days when network centric warfare can just as easily describe the 21st century battlefield as it does the struggle to hack into, and prevent hacking, of our international cell phone networks. VITA and its members have been working hard to bring VME into the 21st century, so this month we take a look at VPX / VITA 46 and how this standard is emerging in the marketplace.
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- VPX / VITA 46 - What is it?
- OpenVPX - Broadening VPX with an Open Organization
- Military Embedded Systems and VPX: a Case Study
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Pentek's New Software Radio Handbook: The Need to Know Tutorial every Engineer should have!
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The folks at Pentek, who wrote the book on software radio, are pleased to announce their recently released and expanded Software Radio Handbook.
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VPX / VITA 46 - What is it?
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OpenVPX attempts to catalyze the growth of VPX beyond the narrow community by embracing the standards organizations, military embedded vendors, and other involved in the creation of next-generation military embedded systems. Its headquarters, as it were, is at the Mercury Computer Website, or http://www.mc.com/OpenVPX/. The goal is to promote interoperability among vendors, both VPX and COTS military, and thereby promote a healthy ecosystem.
An email reflector exists, if you are interested in following this new technology. Plus Mercury has lead the industry with its OpenVPX Reference Design Kits provides an engineering blueprint for developing OpenVPX-compliant 6U and 3U payload and switch modules. The OpenVPX V1.0 System Specification is the first system VPX specification dedicated to interoperability of multi-vendor system and sub-system building blocks. You can find information on those, here.
If you are interested in the military embedded systems area, or perhaps the convergence of military and civilian technologies in terms of high speed serial fabrics, don't miss the Webinar series at Mercury on many of these topics.
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OpenVPX - Broadening VPX with an Open Organization
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OpenVPX attempts to catalyze the growth of VPX beyond the narrow community by embracing the standards organizations, military embedded vendors, and other involved in the creation of next-generation military embedded systems. Its headquarters, as it were, is at the Mercury Computer Website, or http://www.mc.com/OpenVPX/. The goal is to promote interoperability among vendors, both VPX and COTS military, and thereby promote a healthy ecosystem.
An email reflector exists, if you are interested in following this new technology. Plus Mercury has lead the industry with its OpenVPX Reference Design Kits provides an engineering blueprint for developing OpenVPX-compliant 6U and 3U payload and switch modules. The OpenVPX V1.0 System Specification is the first system VPX specification dedicated to interoperability of multi-vendor system and sub-system building blocks. You can find information on those, here.
If you are interested in the military embedded systems area, or perhaps the convergence of military and civilian technologies in terms of high speed serial fabrics, don't miss the Webinar series at Mercury on many of these topics.
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Military Embedded Systems and VPX: a Case Study
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One vendor leading the way towards VPX has been Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc. (X-ES). The company designs and builds chassis, single-board computers, I/O, power, backplane, and system-level products within the
embedded computer industry.The company has released some of the better news in the VPX and military embedded systems area. For example:
- XCalibur1541: A 6U VPX SBC Featuring
Freescale MPC 8572E Processor - This is a MPC8572E based 6U VPX board that ranges from commercial to full blown military (conduction-
cooled) applications. With Freescale Semiconductor’s dual-core MPC8572E PowerQUICC™ III processor, XCalibur1541 delivers enhanced performance and efficiency
for today’s commercial, industrial and military embedded computing applications. XCalibur1541 is a powerful solution structured for…
- Seven Embedded Products Based on the Latest Intel® Core™i7 Processor - seven embedded computing products based on the new Intel Core i7 processor. X-ES
is committed to supporting the Intel Core i7 embedded processor across Extreme Engineering’s entire line of form factors with support for the Intel Core i7-
610E, i7-620LE, and i7-620UE processors. All products from X-ES based on the Intel Core i7 embedded processor are available in commercial, air-cooled to
rugged, conduction-cooled versions suitable for a wide variety of commercial, industrial and military applications….
You can follow all the VPX news via eg3.com's e-clips service, here.
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