When VXS, a proposal for standardizing gigabit serial switched fabrics shook the embedded community in 2002 as part of the VMEbus renaissance, XMC, a natural extension of that technology to PMC modules was inevitable. VXS is the popular name for a switched serial backplane fabric implementation for VMEbus. The VXS specification is fabric-transparent, in that there are subspecifications, one for each of fabrics: Infiniband, Serial RapidIO, Gigabit Ethernet, PCI Express.

FPGAs are becoming an increasingly important resource for software radio systems.

FPGAs Replace Legacy VME

This article describes the implementation of a common DSP[] application, Spectrum Analysis, on the COTS WILDSTAR II for VME FPGA[]-based processing board with a 1.5 GHz A/D I/O card, using the CoreFire FPGA Design Suite.