Originally broadcast on December 5, 2023. Now available On Demand.
Sponsors: Elma and Samtec
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Summary
Significant efforts are being made to bring open standards into next-gen designs to meet the DoD’s Modular Open Standards Approach (MOSA) initiatives, most notably development of new multi-mission defense platforms using the SOSA Technical Standard. The most recent work within the standards working groups is addressing the need for a form factor "significantly smaller than 3U VPX" but still in alignment with SOSA principles of modularity, scalability, interoperability, and replaceability to address severe SWaP constraints and yet maintain scalability and interoperability that OpenVPX and SOSA provide. While still a work in progress, VNX+ (VITA 90) is maturing rapidly. This rugged, modular small form factor module hardware architecture is an attractive approach for severely SWaP-constrained platform regardless of their deployment environment (air, ground, or sea).
VITA 90 offers features including more tightly defined Utility, Communications, and a new Overlay segment, provisions for blind-mate optical and coax connections, power supply module definitions, well-defined slot profiles for payload modules, switches, PNT/Radial Clock modules, and even space payloads.
This webcast will delve into VNX+, review the current status of the various VITA 90.x standards documents, as well as details of SOSA’s adoption. The speakers will discuss the ramifications of designing ever-smaller platforms while trying to meet increasingly greater power and cooling demands of high-performance processors. Considerations for signal integrity and aperture ramifications as well as examples of applications that can benefit will be addressed.
Speakers:
Mark Littlefield
Director, Systems Products
Elma Electronic
Mark Littlefield is director of systems products for Elma Electronic. He is an active contributor to multiple VITA and SOSA technical working groups including the SOSA small form factor (SFF) sub-committee, and was co-chair of the VITA 65 OpenVPX working group. He has more than 25 years of experience in embedded computing, where he has held a range of technical and professional roles supporting defense, medical, and commercial applications. Mark holds BS & MS degrees in control systems engineering from the University of West Florida, where he wrote his thesis on a neural net approach to image processing.
John Riley
Director, Systems Products
Samtec
John Riley is senior technical marketing engineer at Samtec. For more than 20 years, he has defined, designed, developed, and tested high-performance copper, RF and optical interconnect for a number of embedded computing applications. Additionally, he and his wife champion STEM education, advanced manufacturing techniques and community outreach via their non-profit maker space. John holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Louisville.
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