By: William G. Wong, Senior Content Director - Electronic Design and Microwaves RF

VITA’s latest standard push is VITA 100. It’s designed to take military, avionics, and rugged applications into the next decade, providing more power and delivering high bandwidth. VITA 100 builds on the existing OpenVPX standards. These are used by The Open Group and the SOSA Consortium, which have built the SOSA standard for military applications

I was introduced to VITA 100 at VITA’s Embedded Tech Trends. Mike Walmseley, Product Management/Industry Standards at TE Connectivity, gave a presentation on the connectors to be utilized by VITA 100 (watch the video).

VITA 100 requires a new set of connectors to handle the higher bandwidth and higher power requirements. It delivers 4X the data rate when compared to VITA 46.30 VPX connections. The new standard continues to use the stripline, wafer connector approach (Fig. 1). It allows for high-speed differential signals to be handled by the plug and socket, with the ability to handle four 11G differential pairs on a wafer.

See article.