Christine Van De Graaf, Kontron America

• COMs help assure air safety is in the bag

  

  COM Express, a PICMG open specification, is streamlining the transition from PCI, ISA, and IDE (legacy technology) to PCI Express, SATA, and other future-focused technologies, playing a role in such applications as Electronic Flight Bags (EFBs).

  Christine Van De Graaf Kontron

• Why the Rx calls for COMs and CompactPCI

  David Pursley Kontron and Christine Van De Graaf Kontron

  Higher-performance PCI Express computing blades are making CompactPCI an even healthier choice for medical apps, and the prognosis looks good for designers gaining from access to UGMs as a standardized COMs graphics solution.