Originally broadcast on July 25, 2023. Now available On Demand.
Sponsored by: Elma Electronic
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Summary
Monitoring the health, power, and cooling of boards used in military systems is just as important as the performance of the end system. System Management directly benefits the warfighter by providing reconfigurability for faster redeployment and health monitoring in the event that elements of the chassis start to fail.
The "1.1 System Manager" module is a key component to the Sensor Open Systems Architecture™ (SOSA) Technical Standard. The SOSA Technical Standard describes the System Manager module as providing “system management functionality to and for managed SOSA modules, PICs, and other hardware elements (e.g., power supplies, network switches). Functionality is provided via a set of system management services. The ability to manage and interact with these system management services is enabled through well-defined sets of APIs and sensor component messages.”
The System Manager module relies heavily on the ANSI/VITA 46.11-2022 standard "System Management on VPX", which provides the key components for monitoring the health, power, and cooling of SOSA plug-in cards and chassis infrastructure, and offers the means to not-only quickly and accurately find and correct faults, but also provide valuable data for predicting future faults. As a result, the System Manager module is an important element of the overall SOSA architecture.
In this webcast we will examine what the 1.1 System Manager module is, how ANSI/VITA 46.11 fits into it, and what features SOSA requires of SOSA aligned hardware elements including Chassis Management Modules (CMMs), and individual plug-in cards’ and Power Supply Unit’s Intelligent Platform Management Controller processors.
Speakers
Mark Litttlefield | 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.
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