November 2009 - Mil Aero Insider Newsletter
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| VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4 |
NOVEMBER 2009 | ARCHIVES |
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| BY JIM BERLIN, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
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level of capability that was unthinkable with either VMEbus or CompactPCI, especially in their 3U forms.
Major military prime contractors were quick to embrace the new technology as companies like GE Fanuc introduced broad ranges of VPX plug-in modules. Today, GE Fanucs VPX family comprises no fewer than sixteen products, including rugged 3U and 6U single board computers based on both Intel and PowerPC processors; rugged graphics processors and subsystems; rugged quad processor boards for sophisticated DSP applications; and rugged utility boards such as PCI Express and Ethernet switches and SATA disk drive modules. Our goal has always been to provide the broadest possible range of functionality to enable our customers to build complete systems.
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 When the VPX/VITA 46.0 base standard and VPX/VITA 46.1 VMEbus Signal Mapping standards were ratified in October 2007, it seemed as if we were about to enter a brave new world of military embedded computing – a brave new world that offered not only significantly higher levels of performance, but also one which provided a relatively straightforward migration path for VMEbus-based systems. With its fabric-centric architecture and high speed connectors, VPX offered a
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A couple of months ago, GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms announced that we had initiated a collaborative effort with Cavium Networks in which the two companies will facilitate high-performance compute technology using low power multicore processor architectures in military/aerospace applications. Here, Rubin Dhillon, Communications Product Manager, provides insight into the background behind the announcement.
