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Welcome to the Engineers’ Guide to VME, VPX & VXS 2013 The trends in VME are clear: systems are migrating to high-speed fabric interconnects using PCI Express, Serial RapidIO, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet on platforms such as VPX (VITA 46) and OpenVPX (VITA 65). While copper is still the preferred data plane material, lots of work is going into optical interconnects of spaghetti fiber on the backplane. As well, VME vendors are offering all manner of pre-packaged rugged boxes—the term I coined is “shoeboxes”—which may or may not contain 6U, 3U VME or VPX. In fact, they might contain anything, including one of the several Working Group VITA standards: 73, 74, or 75. The challenge, of course, is dealing with the requisite I/O, heat, and environmentals. I love VME, and have been associated with the ecosystem for nearly 25 years. That’s why when colleague Michael Munroe from Elma Bustronic offered up “VPX Backplanes Go Optical” I jumped on the chance to include it here. Michael’s an expert on all manner of PHY and signaling on VME and VPX. Curtiss-Wright describes how VPX is “Bringing HPC Technology to Mil-Aero Embedded Deployment”, and since power is what drives everything, Dawn VME gives us an overview of “VITA 62 Power Supplies: Filling a Standards Gap for 3U VPX Systems”. As mentioned, heat is a killer in all of these systems so Mentor Graphics, the recent acquirer of FloTHERM and other CFD-related tools, presents an excellent overview of “Tackling the Challenge of Building...Avionics with CFD”. This one’s a must-read. Yet hardware’s not the only game in VME and VPX. I ran into MultiCoreWare at an AMD conference and twisted a few arms to get them to talk about programming in OpenCL in their article “Performance-Portable Programming”. And we give an “attaboy” (and “attagirl”) to the VME community for being “Agile” before it was popular, as evidenced by the article “The Softer Side of Agile” penned by ESI International. Last, but not least: be sure to read our insightful Round table Q&A featuring commentary by friends from Aitech and Curtiss-Wright in my article “VME’s Long From Dead; Destined to Co-Exist with VPX and Serial Fabrics”. Of course, that’s not all—this issue is full of product news, datasheets, events and other resources to keep you up to date with the latest in programmable logic. As always, we’d love to hear your feedback, thoughts and comments. Send them to info@extensionmedia.com. Thanks for joining us by reading. Chris A. C iufo, Editor cciufo@extensionmedia.com PS: Watch for InfiniBand on VPX; it’s a trend I’m following closely in the blog www.eecatalog.com/caciufo. Engineers’ Guide to VME, VPX & VXS 2013 www.eecatalog.com/vme Vice President & Publisher Clair Bright cbright@extensionmedia.com (415) 255-0390 ext. 15 Editorial Editorial Director John Blyler jblyler@extensionmedia.com (503) 614-1082 Senior Editor Chris A. Ciufo cciufo@extensionmedia.com Editor Cheryl Berglund Coupé ccoupe@extensionmedia.com Creative/Production Production Manager Spryte Heithecker Media Coordinator Jenn Burkhardt Graphic Designers Nicky Jacobson Jacob Ewing Senior Web Developer Mariam Moattari Advertising/Reprint Sales Vice President & Publisher Embedded Electronics Media Group Clair Bright cbright@extensionmedia.com (415) 255-0390 ext. 15 Sales Manager Michael Cloward mcloward@extensionmedia.com (415) 255-0390 ext. 17 Marketing/Circulation Jenna Johnson To Subscribe www.eecatalog.com/subscribe Extension Media, LLC Corporate Office (415)255-0390 President and Group Publisher Vince Ridley vridley@extensionmedia.com Vice President, Sales Embedded Electronics Media Group Clair Bright cbright@extensionmedia.com Vice President, Business Development Melissa Sterling msterling@extensionmedia.com (415)-970-19100 Special Thanks to Our Sponsors The Engineers’ Guide to VME is published by Extension Media LLC. Extension Media makes no warranty for the use of its products and assumes no responsibility for any errors which may appear in this Catalog nor does it make a commitment to update the information contained herein. The Engineers’ Guide to VME is Copyright ® 2012 Extension Media LLC. No information in this Catalog may be reproduced without expressed written permission from Extension Media @ 1786 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107-2343. All registered trademarks and trademarks included in this Catalog are held by their respective companies. Every attempt was made to include all trademarks and registered trademarks where indicated by their companies. 2 Engineers’ Guide to VME, VPX & VXS 2013
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