the technology behind Critical Embedded Systems
innovation
VME Technology is a favorite choice of embedded systems architecture. Many current users have taken advantage of the long life cycle of VME products and refreshed their product lines with the vast selection of VME products on the market. VME Technology has grown significantly since its inception, expanding from the original family of a core VME32 parallel bus specification, a VME Subsystem Bus specification, and a VME serial interconnect specification to today's broad family of complementary state-of-the art specifications.
New projects are leveraging these advancements in VME Technology, capturing the benefits of performance and life cycle advantages. Today's VME Technology includes:
- serial switch fabric solutions in XMC, VXS, VPX and other new standards that include Gigabit Ethernet, PCI Express, RapidIO, and InfiniBand interconnects.
- parallel bus performance of over 300 MB/sec using VME 2eSST, with more bandwidth performance on the near horizon.
- specifications to help standardize environmental criteria, digitization of radio frequency data, reliability prediction, and other topics important to electronic systems design.
interoperability
Development of standards for the VME Technology family continues to improve VME's utilization in complex systems. The VITA Standards Organization is partnering with the Software Defined Radio Forum, RapidIO Trade Association, and other consortia to advance common technology, improve interoperability, and create new and exciting possibilities for the future.
Some of the technology opportunities for Critical Embedded Systems include:
- Increasing demands for high bandwidth digital data
- Addressing shorter and shorter design cycles
- Fostering coexistance of Linux and Windows for usability
- Improving SoC, DSP, and FPGA capability
- Advancing serial fabric technology
- Customizing systems while retaining interoperability
- Facilitating certification of system and system-of-system platforms
insight
VITA-sponsored conferences address numerous topics within the areas of Critical Embedded Systems.
