For decades, open systems architectures and open standards have helped accelerate innovation to end users in aerospace and defense applications through the development of interfaces that are open, key ...

Paradigm shifts in technology initiatives don’t come without their skeptics, as is the case with the DoD’s Hardware/Software Convergence Initiative. Aimed at developing a common, modular hardware ...

The Defense Department has a new tool in its arsenal to lower technology costs and improve ease of upgrades, OpenVPX technology. Demonstrated at the Milcom 2009 Conference, the first live OpenVPX ...

For decades, the VME standard has defined an embedded computing architecture that was effectively deployed in mission-critical systems. But, as both processor technology and interprocessor ...

Elma Bustronic's new 3U 6-slot backplane (Fig. 1) targets OpenVPX applications. It is VITA 65 compliant. It has a configurable thin pipe links for distributed Gigabit Ethernet to slot 1 through 5.

How OpenVPX is bringing better interoperability to a range of applications. Like any another technology, VME has continued to evolve since its introduction in the early 1980s. Originally featuring a ...

TE Connectivity (TE) announced the MULTIGIG RT 3, its fastest rugged backplane connector to date. At speeds of 25+ Gbits/s, the company claims that it is among the fastest rugged backplane connectors ...

Standards-based aviation computing took off with VME (Versa Module Eurocard) when the military switched from mil-spec to commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) processors. But this ubiquitous parallel bus ...

TE Connectivity’s MultiGig HD connector has been selected by the VITA Standards Organization as the next-generation VPX plug-in module connector. Senior project manager, Mark Walmsley, revealed the ...

PanaTeQ has introduced a 3U (100 x 160mm) OpenVPX-compatible board with Xilinx 16nm Zynq UltraScale+ SoCs. In a single device, the Zynq UltraScale+ integrates a quad-core 1.5GHz 32/64bit ARM ...

TE Connectivity has launched its fastest rugged backplane connector, the MULTIGIG RT 3, which can support speeds of 25+Gb/s, making them among the fastest rugged backplane connectors for embedded ...