Articles
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While hard numbers are difficult to get, COM Express vendors who exhibited last year at Embedded World, the largest embedded board and system show on Earth, generally agreed that the market at that time, about 18 months ago, was in excess of 2 million units annually representing about $400 million in revenue. With the intense interest in the Internet of Things (IoT) and the push to make everything from appliances to automobiles to municipal transportation and power systems “smart” and connected to each other and the Internet, that number will surely increase dramatically.
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The rule of four
A while back I used an interview with Chuck Byers of Cisco Systems as the basis for a series of columns on the future of optical backplanes (you can find the summer, fall, and winter 2013 articles online at http://bit.ly/1h5cRw9, http://bit.ly/1bP3JY5,...
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Standardized COMs provide real reliability: Rugged COM Express
Embedded systems continue to pack more performance into less space. This increases the degree and intensity of computing pressure that each element in a system endures.
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Further developments in CompactPCI Serial
When revamping one of the most popular industry specifications, many factors need to be considered to meet the diverse needs of existing users and those of a new set of developers ready to take advantage of an upgraded technology platform.
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Pentair and Pigeon Point - A match made in modular standards heaven?
In a July 31st press release, Pentair announced that it had acquired Pigeon Point Systems (PPS), a leading vendor of management solutions for standards-based platforms such as AdvancedTCA (ATCA), MicroTCA (mTCA), and VPX. In this Q&A with Volker Haag, Vice President of Product Management, Pentair Electronics Protection, and Mark Overgaard, Founder and CTO of Pigeon Point Systems, the two provide background on the deal, explain how the PPS portfolio helps augment Pentair’s existing offerings, and shed light on the implications of the union for the standards-based development community.
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Lower cost MicroTCA for special applications
A common criticism of MicroTCA is that the specifications' extensive management provisions add excess cost that price the platforms out of many applications. Here, Michael Thompson of Pentair Equipment Protection explains how you can bend the rules of MicroTCA to develop compliant systems without breaking the bank.
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Edge-based analytics using general-purpose processors
Increasing demand for bandwidth at the network edge is driving the need for easily programmable, low-cost signal processing systems that can scale as data volumes grow. This is leading to the deployment of general-purpose processors in domains traditio...
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MicroTCA.4 continues culture of COTS signal processing at DESY
In this interview with engineers in the Machine Beam Controls Group at DESY, Holger Schlarb and Michael Fenner discuss the data acquisition requirements of the accelerator community, as well as how a tradition of using COTS signal processing solutions ...
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Ethernet - 40G to 400G: Interview with John D'Ambrosia
With Ethernet speeds advancing past 40G to 100G and higher, designers of systems such as AdvancedTCA (ATCA) meticulously follow activities in the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet subcommittee for any indicators on the future of backplane-based systems. In this interview with John D’Ambrosia, IEEE P802.3bs Chair, Chairman of the Ethernet Alliance, and Dell’s Chief Ethernet Evangelist, he discusses the development and deployment of the recently released 100GBASE-KR4 and -KP4 specifications, as well as the beginnings of IEEE work on 400G Ethernet and beyond.
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Upgrading MicroTCA.0 and AMC.2 to 40 GbE speed levels
The Higher Speed Ethernet Fabrics for MicroTCA.0 and AMC.2 committee is working to bring 40 GbE to these specifications. The specification currently runs at up to 10 GbE levels per 10GBASE-KX and 10GBASE-KR. There are several pieces involved in this effort, and careful attention has been made to its effect on related specifications.
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Proprietary implementations of open†source in SDN?
Cisco's open source based software-defined networking strategy is shifting to a more proprietary Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) approach.
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CompactPCI Serial ascends to Revision 2, AdvancedTCA primed for Ethernet and IPv6 enhancements
CompactPCI Serial Revision 2 adds incremental features and capabilities to the standard, and AdvancedTCA 100G Ethernet improves capacity for the ATCA specification.
Brandon Lewis, Technology Editor
