Subject

Presenter

Comments

Call VSO meeting to order

Introductions, Agenda Review

Announcements, Minutes Approval

Elwood Parsons, VSO Chair

Elwood called the meeting to order and asked members to introduce themselves.  After introductions the agenda was review and several changes were made. Minutes from the previous meeting were approved.

 

VSO Presentations, VITA Patent Policy, ITAR Issues, and other stuff

John Rynearson, VITA

See presentation.  John discussed meeting conduct, VITA’s patent policy, a call for patents (none were revealed), available patent declarations, export control issues, and VITA’s policy on defense services.

Standards Report

John Rynearson, Tech Dir, VITA

See presentation.  John explained the revisions requested by ANSI to its new procedures.  The revised procedures were approved.  John discussed stabilized maintenance of standards  recently added to ANSI’s Essential Requirements and recommended to members that stabilized maintenance be added to the VSO procedures.  Upon a motion made, seconded, and approved by all, stabilized maintenance was added to the VSO’s procedures.  John will submit these procedures to ANSI.

 

John presented a list of current standards recommended for stabilized maintenance.  John will publish this list to the VITA members reflector and the VSO will vote on the disposition of these standards at the September meeting.

 

John recommended that VITA 38 be reaffirmed.  It was moved with no objection to reaffirm VITA 38.  John will submit VITA 38 to the ANSI reaffirmation process.

 

John reviewed completed ANSI ballots.

 

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Working Group Reports

(10 Minutes Each)

 

VITA 17.2, 10 Gbit Serial FPDP Report

Ralph Barrera, Curtiss-Wright

See presentation. The goal of 17.2 is to increase link speed.  Bi-weekly conference calls are being held.  The group needs help completing the optical link specification tables.

VITA 41.6, VXS Control Plane

Michael Bonato, DRS-SS

See presentation.  41.6 provides a high speed control channel separate from the data fabric channel in VXS systems.  41.6 passed a working group ballot with 75% approval.  Working group voted to move draft to ANSI.

 

VITA 41.7, Processor Mesh

Michael Munroe, Elma Bustronic

See presentation. 41.7 defines 5 fully mesh 24 channel x4 processor slots for VXS.  Draft 0.5a of 41.7 is awaiting the completion of 41.6.

 

VITA 41.8, "VXS 10 Gigabit Ethernet Protocol Layer Standard"

Andy Reddig, TEK Micro

Mike Bonato for Andy Reddig, see presentation.  41.8 adds a 10 GbE capability to VXS switch and payload cards.  It provides an alternative data plane to IB, sRIO, GigE, PCIe, and Aurora.  Work has begun on the initial draft.  

VITA 42 Status

Andy Reddig, TEK Micro

Chris Eckert for Andy Reddig, see presentation.  42.0 has undergone a period as a trial use standard.  It failed a recent ANSI ballot due to lack of participation and several negative ballots.  Although not yet a standard there are numerous implementations in the market.

 

VITA 46, VPX Status Report

Jing Kwok, Curtiss-Wright

See presentation.  46.0, VPX utilizes a high performance connector to accommodate serial fabrics and traditional VMEbus signals.  46.0 passed its ANSI ballot.  The working group will conduct a ballot review.

 

VITA 48, REDI

Mike Gust, Mercury Computer

See presentation. VITA 48.1 and 48.2 have finished working group ballots. VITA 48.3 draft is in process. Working will start on either 48.4 or 48.5 once the working ballots for 48.1 and 48.2 are resolved.

VITA 49, Digital IF

Bob Normoyle, DRS-SS

No report.

VITA 50, Cooling

Rex Harvey, Parker Hannifin

The goal of VITA 50 is to highlight cooling techniques appropriate for critical embedded modules.  Rex reported that there has been little progress on VITA 50.  Numerous ideas have been put forth as to how to implement VITA 50 such as an online wiki and Rex has developed an outline for VITA 50 subjects.  However, the technology is changing quickly and a one time snapshot would quickly become obsolete.  John suggested the effort be “tabled” or labeled as inactive.  The project can be reactivated in the future if appropriate.  There being no objection, VITA 50 was moved to an “inactive” status.  

 

VITA 51, Reliability Prediction

Lori Bechtold, Boeing

Elwood Parsons reported for Lori.  See report.  VITA 51 is working on reliability prediction.  A working group ballot is in progress.  The group has discussed developing a website as a community of practice for reliability.

 

VITA 53, Market Surveillance

Stephen Cecil, CRANE

See presentation.  VITA 53 is working on a standard way for manufacturers to provide information on product life cycles.  A working group ballot was recently completed.

 

VITA 55 Aurora on VME Report

Andy Reddig, Tek Microsystems, Inc.

No report.

LUNCH ****

VITA 56, EMC

David Slaton, GE

Chris Eckert for David Slaton.  GE has withdrawn its sponsorship from VITA 56.  VITA 56 is currently a study group.   Given that there is no current interest in pursuing VITA 56, a motion was made, seconded, and approved all in favor to table VITA 56.

 

VITA 57 Status

Malachy Devlin, Nallatech

No report.

VITA 58, Electronic Module Integration

Michael Humphrey, AP Labs

Dan Golden, Boeing, for Mike Humphrey.  The goal of VITA 58 is to develop an electronic modular standard that allows for quick replacement.  Dan has been holding telecons, but is looking for more participation.

 

Adjourn VSO Meeting

Elwood Parsons

There being no further business, the VSO meeting was adjourned until tomorrow.

Working Group Meetings

VITA 42 Working Group Meeting

See VITA 42 webpage for minutes.

VITA 48 Working Group Meeting

See VITA 48 web page for minutes.

VITA 58 Working Group Meeting

See VITA 58 web page for minutes.

VITA 46 Ballot Review Meeting

See VITA 46 web page for minutes.

Adjourn Meetings

Subject

Presenter

Call Meeting to Order

Announcements, etc.

Elwood Parsons, VSO Chair

Elwood called the meeting to order.

Future Meeting Schedule

John Rynearson, VITA

John Rynearson discussed future VSO meetings.  The September VSO meeting has been moved to September 26-27, 2007 so it won’t conflict with other meetings.  Members were asked to suggest 2008 venues and note possible conflicts with other events.

VSO Meeting Adjournment

There being no further business the VSO meeting was adjourned.

Main Meeting Room

VITA 46, Ballot review

Ballot Review Session

See VITA 46 web page for minutes.