Network system manufacturers' demand for speed has made the backplane transceiver one of the central strategic components in communication system designs. Yet there are no solutions architected for ...

The rate of adoption of serial technology in high-end system design has reached critical mass. As shown in Fig 1, this point is supported by the fact that 92% of respondents in a recent EE Times ...

Since the days when classic open platform technologies, such as VME and CompactPCI, were established in the 1980s and 1990s, the processing power available to system designers has continued to ...

Los Altos,CA - June 23, 2003 - Teradyne, Inc. (NYS: TER), Connection Systems Division, a leading supplier of high-performance interconnect systems and Rambus, a leading provider of chip-to-chip ...

The U.S. Navy, always seeking paths to reduce the size, weight, and power (SWaP) of systems, took another step in that direction with the FlexVPX concept, which was developed at its U.S. Naval ...

Typically, the system designer breaks an application down into functional elements, and identifies functional blocks such as SBC, Switch and I/O boards. These boards or modules will then be uniquely ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa.- February 3, 2003 - Agere Systems (NYSE: AGR.A, AGR.B) and Accelerant Networks, the leading developer of backplane communication solutions, today announced a multi-faceted alliance to ...

I was recently at VITA's Embedded Tech Trends where I had a chance to chat again with Ray Alderman, the chairman of VITA's board. Ray has been working on computers for a long time. We were reminiscing ...

High performance computing systems by necessity pack as many boards in an enclosure as possible. But the fact they are high performance means they generate a lot of heat. Cooling them becomes an ...