Technology Focus

• COM-HPC: Limitless high-speed scalability

  

  COM-HPC is the new, soon-to-be released PICMG standard for high-performance Computer-on-Modules (COMs). The pinout and therefore also the functionality were recently officially approved. Final PICMG ratification of the COM-HPC specification is scheduled for the first half of 2020; in the meantime, the PICMG subcommittee already approved two key aspects in November 2019: the physical footprints [...]

  Christian Eder congatec AG and Jessica Isquith President of PICMG

• CompactPCI Serial goes full steam ahead

  Valerie Andrew, Elma Electronic

  The popular and very successful parallel CompactPCI specification (PICMG 2.0) has enjoyed a long life and is in fact still in use today across multiple industries. Its progeny is the CompactPCI Serial standard (CPCI Serial), PICMG CPCI-S.0. It’s a serial architecture that significantly extends and enhances the best features of the earlier standard, by combining [...]

• Embedded legacy obsolescence: Obscuring the truth and the bottom line

  

  Starting in the late 1980s, the embedded industry started to see a change in electronic product life cycles. Before that time, computing technology was primarily commercial and capital equipment had long introduction phases. Today, however, consumer demand for electronic products drives component manufacturers toward a quick-to-market life cycle. Balancing new product introduction and legacy product [...]

  Tania Scroggie, GDCA and Siku Thompson, GDCA

• Simplifying sensors – an update on PICMG Industrial IoT standards

  

  “Simple is hard,” goes that old axiom. Reducing the essence of a complex idea or system into something that is readily understood and easy to use takes time, effort, and creativity. Never has this been more true than in today’s push toward the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and by extension its use of sensors. [...]

  Doug Sandy Vice President of Technology for PICMG

• PICMG standards adoption growing in Asia, Europe with COM Express leading the way

  

  Leaders of PICMG say that their standards continue to grow in adoption across the globe, with COM Express making huge inroads in Asia and Internet of Things (IoT) markets while CompactPCI Serial grows in acceptance in Europe.

  John McHale, Editorial Director