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VME Technology continues to be a favorable choice as an industrial embedded computing architecture. Many current users have taken advantage of the long life cycle of VME products and have refreshed their product lines with the vast selection of VME products on the market. New projects are leveraging the advancements in VME Technology with an eye on performance and the life cycle advantages of VME.
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The VME Technology family of specifications has grown significantly since its inception. VMEbus has expanded from the original family of a core VME32 parallel bus specification, a VME Subsystem bus, and a VME serial interconnect to today's broad family of complementary state-of-the art specifications.
Core specifications
The core specifications have continued to evolve in performance and capability from the original 32-bit bus to a 64-bit bus and from 40MBytes/sec maximum to 320+MBytes/sec with more bandwidth performance on the near horizon.
Interconnect and fabric specifications
As the serial switch fabric solutions that include Gigabit Ethernet, PCI Express, RapidIO, StarFabric, Infiniband and other alternatives gain popularity and additional usage to form critical mass in the industry, specific purpose parallel and serial subsystem buses will start sharing market space by solving different problems within tomorrow's embedded systems. VME will evolve to incorporate the appropriate alternatives.
Mezzanine specifications
VME technology includes several mezzanine specifications that have been optimized for use in VME environments. Low profile, small form factor mezzanine solutions of various types have been developed with several obtaining ANSI approval. IP modules, M-modules, PC.MIP, and the very popular PMC modules all work effectively in VME applications. These continue to evolve as technology and application needs change.
Support and management specifications
Several system management specifications have also been ratified that make the development of VME systems easier with more robust system management. Proposals continue to be submitted and considered for addition to the VME Technology family to improve VME's utilization in complex systems.
