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Avenue of the Fountains, Ste. 201 • Fountain Hills, AZ 85268 • Tel: (480) 967-5581 XPONENTIAL 2016 SALES AND MARKETING OFFICE 30233 Jefferson • St. Clair Shores, MI 48082 May 2-5 New Orleans, Louisiana REPRINTS www.xponential.org WRIGHT’S MEDIA REPRINT COORDINATOR Wyndell Hamilton [email protected] (281) 419-5725 www.vita-technologies.com VITA Technologies Resource Guide Spring/Summer 2016 | 5 Editor’s Foreword By Jerry Gipper, Editorial Director @VitaTechnology [email protected] Celebrating VME’s strength and endurance Embedded Tech Trends 2016 is now in to do so; IOxOS also has an FPGA-based bridge chip that is sold as a stand-alone the books. We had a record number of component and is being used by other VMEbus board suppliers. sponsors and media representatives at the event, which is a business and tech- In 2014 the industry was in a panic that VMEbus as we knew it would end when IBM nology forum focused on the critical and informed IDT that they would no longer build the Tsi148 VMEbus to PCI-X bridge for intelligent embedded systems industry. them, forcing IDT to announce the end-of-life of that popular part. Strong demand for The theme this year was “Houston – We VME incentivized suppliers to look for alternate solutions, from lifetime purchases to have a problem!” All of the presentations custom FPGA implementations. Many are taking the opportunity to make it a VMEbus and associated videos have been posted to PCI Express bus bridge, which is more popular with today’s designs. to the Embedded Tech Trends website at www.embeddedtechtrends.com. The industry lost a giant in January with the passing of Lym Hevle, the founder of the VMEbus International Trade Association (VITA). I was saddened to hear the news. I had Last year was a very busy time at VITA. the fortune of knowing Lym in the early days of VITA and VMEbus. My last contact with Twenty-two new members joined from him was while I was doing research for the 25th anniversary of VMEbus. Read more companies around the world, truly about Lym’s contributions in the Hall of Fame feature. reflecting the international significance of the organization. These memberships I was excited when I got a call from NAVAIR late last year asking if they could attend were driven primarily by the growing a VITA Standards Organization (VSO) meeting to discuss some ideas they had on popularity of VPX and FMC. The activity open architecture platforms. They have been following the work of the U.S. Army’s level is high for standards develop- VICTORY program and have been struggling with many of the same development ment and design-wins for both of these issues. A NAVAIR representative presented the Hardware Open System Technology technologies. (HOST) strategy to VSO meeting attendees. NAVAIR has a vision of creating a hard- ware technical reference framework for developing embedded computing systems At the same time, we are preparing to through successful development of the HOST strategy to maximize platform and celebrate the 35th anniversary of the system “openness,” modularity, interoperability, scalability, sustainability, and reuse. announcement of VMEbus. Looking The VSO decided to form a study group to continue working on this proposal.