One area clearly supported by OpenVPX is a DoD-specific Quick Reaction Capability (QRC), where the development and deployment cycles demanded by the market are significantly reduced to achieve critical program needs.

OpenVPX expands on the VPX[] Base and Dot Specifications and provides a System Specification to address interoperability issues between VPX modules and Chassis. OpenVPX is an extensible specification that addresses the current and future needs for computing in harsh environments.

Find out the company’s perspective on OpenVPX.

The inner workings of the digital receiver are explored and actual digital receiver systems and commercially available products are described.

This whitepaper provides the reader with a strategic update on the state of the VME Technology industry, in particular, and a view of the board industry in general, from the perspective of Ray Alderman, the executive director of VITA. VITA is the trade association dedicated to fostering American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited, open system architectures in critical embedded system applications. The whitepaper reviews application markets, technology, mergers and acquisitions, forecasts and legal issues impacting VITA and its members in 2008.

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.