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Subject |
Presenter |
Comments |
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Call VSO meeting to order Introductions, Agenda Review Announcements, Minutes Approval |
Elwood Parsons, VSO Chair |
Elwood called the meeting to order at 8:05 AM and asked
members to introduce themselves.
The agenda for the meeting was reviewed and several items were
added. The minutes from the
previous meeting were approved as written. There were no announcements. |
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IP Issues -
Patent
Policy Review -
Call
for Patent Disclosures |
Elwood Parsons, Chair |
Elwood reviewed the patent policy for the VSO and
ANSI. Elwood asked for any
patent disclosures. None were
made. |
|
VITA Report |
Ray Alderman, Exec Dir VITA |
Ray introduced a new project which was to be presented on
Thursday. See ThursdayÕs
minutes. |
|
Standards Report |
John Rynearson, Tech Dir VITA |
John reviewed the status of standards in the ANSI
process. See presentation. |
|
European Report |
Hermann Strass, VITA Europe |
See HermanÕs presentation on European activities. |
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VITA 17.2, 10 Gbit Serial FPDP Report |
Ralph Barrera, Curtiss-Wright |
See report. |
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VITA 41, VXS Report |
Bob Tufford, Motorola |
See report. |
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John Rynearson, VITA |
Mr. Rynearson discussed the results of the recent ANSI
VITA ballots for VITA 41.0, 41.1, and 41.2. All ballots were approved, but the ballots cast by Elwood
Parsons contained a comment which necessitated considering those ballots to
be ÒdisapproveÓ ballots. Mr.
Parsons, in his comments, raised concerns regarding the terms his company had
been offered for certain patented technology required by the standard. As advised by legal counsel, Mr.
Rynearson indicated that discussions of the reasonableness of terms in the
working group or as part of an appeals process would be inappropriate and
outside the scope of the trade association. Hearing no objections, Mr. Rynearson indicated that a
letter outlining VITAÕs position would will be sent to Mr. Parsons and
included in the ballot summary sent to ANSI. |
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|
Bob Patterson, Tyco |
Proposal to make guide pins for VITA
41. There were no objections to
making the guide pins as outlined in BobÕs proposal. |
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Jerry Palmer, DRS-SS |
Proposal to start working group to define
a control plane for VITA 41. See
working group sign-up list. |
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Michael Munroe, Bustronic |
Proposal to strart working group to
define a processor mesh for VXS.
See working group sign-up list. |
|
VITA 42, XMC Update |
Andy Reddig, Tek Microsystems, Inc. |
See report. |
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Dean Holman, Mercury |
Report on frequency tests on XMC
connector. |
|
VITA 46, VPX Status Report |
Stewart Dewar, Curtiss-Wright |
See report. |
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*** BREAK *** |
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VITA 47, Environmentals |
Lori Bechtold, Boeing |
Proposal to revise ANSI/VITA 47. See working group sign-up
list. |
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VITA 48, ERDI |
Mike Gust, Mercury Randy Banton, Mercury Computer |
See report. Randy Banton asked anyone considering the manufacturer of
VITA 48 products to contact Mercury regarding RAND licensing terms for
certain VITA 48 related IP.
Randy promises that this will be a pain free process. |
|
VITA 49, Digital IF |
Stephen Pereira, Mercury Computer |
Dean Holman presented for Stephen Pereira. See report. |
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VITA 50, Cooling |
Rex Harvey, Parker Hannifin |
See report. Rex discussed using the wiki approach to developing the
draft so that development could take place in parallel. |
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VITA 51, Reliability Prediction |
Charles Falardeau, Curtiss-Wright |
Lori Bechtold presented for Charles Falardeau. See report. |
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VITA 52, Lead Free |
Lori Bechtold, Boeing |
See report. |
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VITA 53, Market Surveillance |
Steven Cecil, CRANE |
No report. |
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VITA 54, EPMA |
Ken Boyette, Critia |
No report. |
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*** LUNCH *** |
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VITA 55 Aurora on VME Report |
Andy Reddig, Tek Microsystems, Inc. |
See report. |
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VITA 56, EMC |
David Pepper, GE |
See report. |
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VITA 57, FPGA I/O Mezzanine Pin Assignments |
Craig Lund, Mercury |
No report.
The group has been having telecoms and will report at the March VSO
meeting. |
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VITA 46 Working Group Meeting |
|
See working group minutes. |
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VITA 48 Working Group Meeting |
|
See working group minutes. |
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VITA 52 Lead Free |
|
See working group minutes. |
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Adjourn Meetings |
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Breakfast – 7:00 to
8:00 AM - Thursday, January 19,
2006
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Subject |
Presenter |
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Call Meeting to Order Announcements, etc. |
Elwood Parsons |
Elwood called the meeting to order at 8:00 AM. Members introduced themselves. |
|
Electronic Integration Working Group Proposal |
Dennis Carlson, Pit Stop Engineering David Grisiaffi, General Dynamics |
Dennis presented the work that he had done to redesign
products to make them better meet requirements, such as ease of use and
replacement. In one example he
showed how techniques from racing could be used to make it possible to change
out a Humvee engine in under 2 minutes instead of requiring a garage with a
full set of tools and a day and a half of time. Using this kind of thinking, he is currently applying
these techniques to electronic packaging so that maintenance replacement can
take place in the field in a matter of minutes. A working group was started to investigate these
techniques and to determine how to integrate them into a standards
framework. See sign-up list. Ray Alderman named Eran Strod, Frank
Hom, Mike Munroe, Ivan Straznicky, and Mike Humphrey to draft a requirements
document for the working group. |
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Adjourn VSO Meeting |
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