PICMG Systems and Technology

For the past 15-plus years, optical inspection – also called machine vision – has expanded worldwide, leaving its footprint in different vertical markets. These days machine vision is mainly ...

http://picmg.mil-embedded.com/articles/machine-vision-depends-on-open-industrial-standards/

COM-HPC is the new, soon-to-be released PICMG standard for high-performance Computer-on-Modules (COMs). The pinout and therefore also the functionality were recently officially approved. Final PI...

http://picmg.mil-embedded.com/articles/com-hpc-limitless-high-speed-scalability/

The popular and very successful parallel CompactPCI specification (PICMG 2.0) has enjoyed a long life and is in fact still in use today across multiple industries. Its progeny is the CompactPCI S...

http://picmg.mil-embedded.com/articles/compactpci-serial-goes-full-steam-ahead/

Starting in the late 1980s, the embedded industry started to see a change in electronic product life cycles. Before that time, computing technology was primarily commercial and capital equipment ...

http://picmg.mil-embedded.com/articles/embedded-legacy-obsolescence-obscuring-the-truth-and-the-bottom-line/

“Simple is hard,” goes that old axiom. Reducing the essence of a complex idea or system into something that is readily understood and easy to use takes time, effort, and creativity. Never has...

http://picmg.mil-embedded.com/articles/simplifying-sensors-an-update-on-picmg-industrial-iot-standards/

Welcome to the newest issue of PICMG Systems and Technology. In this issue you will learn about COM-HPC from leading members of the committee, get a detailed update on our IIoT initiatives, and f...

http://picmg.mil-embedded.com/articles/news-specifications-updates-and-more/

The final PICMG ratification of the COM-HPC specification is scheduled for the first half of 2020. In the meantime, PICMG Systems & Technology has convened a brief roundtable discussion on the up...

http://picmg.mil-embedded.com/articles/when-ratified-and-adopted-com-hpc-will-address-iiot-edge-computing-and-power-memory-intensive-applications/

HAMM, Germany. EKF Elektronik has introduced the EN9-SONIC, a peripheral slot board for CompactPCI Express and PXI Express systems, equipped with a dual-port 10 Gb/sec Ethernet controller.

http://picmg.mil-embedded.com/news/peripheral-slot-board-for-compactpci-express-and-pxi-express-systems-debuts/

Products that are based on standards make our lives easier. They standardize how we implement solutions in diverse applications, providing us with assurance that the solutions are sustainable and...

http://picmg.mil-embedded.com/articles/open-standards-for-the-railway-computing-market-2/

In today’s embedded market, opportunities for new technologies have become a necessity. From more adept design-in solutions to entirely new bleeding-edge technologies, embedded systems thrive o...

http://picmg.mil-embedded.com/articles/open-technologies-open-markets-the-value-of-standards-participation-2/

HAMM, Germany. EKF presents the SF2-CANDY, a 16-port CAN-FD controller card for CompactPCI® Serial systems. All CAN I/O ports are wired to a common D-SUB front panel connector. Any CAN port prov...

http://picmg.mil-embedded.com/news/ekf-releases-sf2-candy-for-automotive-applications/

HAMM, Germany. EKF presents the SRU-UPS, a short time power backup solution housed on a 100x160mm(2) Eurocard, suitable for CompactPCI Serial backplanes or other 19-inch based systems.

http://picmg.mil-embedded.com/news/board-mount-uninterruptible-power-supply-released-by-ekf-elektronik-gmbh/