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CONTENTS
VME’s Long From Dead; Destined To Co-Exist With VPX And Serial Fabrics
By Chris A. Ciufo, Editor ..............................................................................................................................................................................................6
OpenATR - SigPro1 Platform OpenVPXBased Signal Acquisition System
By ELMA .............................................................................................................................................................................................10
3U VPX Solutions from Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES)
By Embedded Engineering Solutions (X-ES) .........................................................................................................................................12
VPX Backplanes Go Optical
By Michael Munroe, Technical Specialist, Elma Bustronic ...................................................................................................................14
VITA 62 Power Supplies: Filling a Standards Gap for 3U VPX Systems
By Brian Roberts, Dawn VME ..............................................................................................................................................................................................18
Tackling the Challenge of Building Smaller, Lighter, and More Efficient
Component-based Avionics with CFD
By Boris Marovic, Product Marketing Manager, Mentor Graphics ............................................................................................................................. 21
Bringing HPC Technology to Mil-Aero, Embedded Deployment
By Eran Strod, System Architect, Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions .......................................................................................24
The Softer Side of Agile: Leading Collaborative Teams to Success
By Nancy Y. Nee, PMP, CBAP, CSM Executive Director, Project Management & Business Analysis Programs ESI International ............28
The Protocol Wedge
By Ray Alderman, Executive Director, VITA ..........................................................................................................................................40
Products and Services
Chips and Cores
Test and Analysis
Teledyne LeCroy
Teledyne LeCroy’s PCI Express® Protocol
Analysis and Test Tools ...................................................................31
Hardware
Backplanes
SIE Computing Solutions
VPX Backplanes ...............................................................................32
CPU or Single Board Computers
CES - Creative Electronic Systems SA
QorlQ T4240 3U OpenVPX SBC (RIOV-2440) ...................................33
CSP Inc.
3220Q OpenVPX Intel Blade ............................................................34
3300GTX OpenVPX NVIDIA GPGPU Blade .......................................35
Emerson Network Power
MVME8100 Freescale P5020 QorlQ processor VME Board ............36
MVME2500 ......................................................................................36
Data Aquisition
PENTEK
Model 53720 3-Channel 200 MHz A/D and 2-Channel 800 MHz
D/A with Virtex-7 FPGA - 3U VPX Board .........................................37
Enclosures
SIE Computing Solutions
717 Series Air-Over Conduction Cooled ATR Enclosures ................38
“Mupac” 760 Small Form Factor Series ..........................................39
Engineers’ Guide to
VME, VPX & VXS
UAVs Drive Call for
Small Form Factor
Standard
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Vetronics Architectures Emerge
to Facilitate NEOs
Critical Embedded Systems
Design Challenges
Annual Industry Guide
Solutions for VME, VPX & VXS
system engineers
COVER CREDIT: A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster
III aircraft sits on a runway on Fort
Polk, La., before picking up soldiers for an
airdrop mission during the Large formation
exercise, Dec. 15, 2010. The large formation
exercise demonstrated the global projection
of U.S. airpower and the mission to perform
aerial refueling training. The soldiers are assigned
to Task Force 1, Operations Group at
the Joint Readiness Training Center. U.S. Air
Force photo by Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock.
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