IEEE 1394 FireWire
According to In-Stat, the peak year for IEEE 1394 devices is expected to be 2008, and a slow decline will set in beginning in 2009. IEEE 1394 is the second-choice technology in many product segments and it’s one-third penetration of the PC market is small compared to high-speed USB’s 100% penetration. IEEE 1394 (1394), also [...]
8GT/s PCI Express 3.0
PCI-SIG(R), the Special Interest Group responsible for the PCI Express(R) industry-standard I/O interconnect technology, approved 8GT/s as the bit rate for the next generation of PCIe(R) architecture, PCIe 3.0. This represents the second speed increase since the initial launch of this I/O interconnect standard in 2003.
Following a six-month technical analysis of the feasibility of scaling [...]
Kontron nanoETXexpress COM Standard
nanoETXexpress, which was defined by Kontron, is a new footprint variant of the Computer-On-Module (COM) standard. The nanoETXexpress specification is targeted to deliver extremely power-saving COMs with mid to high performance x86 technology on a footprint that is a mere 55 mm x 84 mm. This is 39% of the original COM Express module Basic [...]
Merchant AdvancedTCA Integrated Platforms
According to Venture Development Corporation (VDC), deployment of merchant AdvancedTCA (ATCA) integrated platforms, configured as full systems, is beginning to increase its growth and momentum. The deployment of ATCA platforms and associated growth of the market were constrained by major obstacles during 2004-2006. There were three important hurdles to overcome in order to accelerate deployment. [...]
PC/104-Plus CPU Modules
The PC/104-Plus architecture has seen steady growth in CPU module boards since its introduction. After periods of incremental gains on share of the PC/104 family CPU module market, PC/104-Plus is projected to rapidly acquire share as it challenges standard PC/104 for the leadership position. PC/104-Plus incorporates a faster stackable PCI connector in addition to the [...]
Embedded Computer Systems
Merchant suppliers are grabbing incremental market share in the embedded computer systems market. According to VDC, the merchant systems market will increase by 64% in terms of dollar volume from 2005 to 2010, with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) over the same period equal to 10.4%. The source of this healthy growth rate is [...]
Mezzanine Card Market
According to VDC, the global market for merchant mezzanine/daughter cards will grow 13.3% annually through 2010. The driving factor is the strength of several new form factors. VDC reports that the global 2005 sales of mezzanine cards and carriers were US$ 355.7 million and projected to grow over 87% by 2010 reaching US$ 667 million.
VDC [...]
Major Open Standard Architectures COM Modules
According to VDC, the major open standard architectures are dominating the Computer-On-Modules (COMs) market. Based on the data from their latest edition of the study (Global Market Analysis of Merchant Computer Boards for Embedded & Real-Time Applications), the major open standard architectures – which include ETX, COM Express, DIMM-PC, and SOM-144 – were responsible for [...]
GE Fanuc Embedded Systems Targets Military Embedded Market
GE Fanuc Embedded Systems will acquire Radstone Technology, the high-end conduction cooled VME boards specialist, for about £130.4 million pounds (approx. US$ 247.8 million). Venture Development Corporation (VDC) published a bulletin about the acquisition. In their bulletin, VDC answered three questions:
NI Debuts PXI Express Modules and High-Bandwidth Controllers
National Instruments launched the industry’s first data acquisition (DAQ) modules for PXI Express, the NI PXIe-6259 and NI PXIe-6251 M Series modules, which deliver fast analog and digital I/O with up to 250 MB/s dedicated per-slot bandwidth. In addition to the new PXI Express DAQ modules, NI announced four PXI Express controllers. The remote, embedded [...]
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