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Article: The future of rugged COTS: A 30-supplier OpenVPX ecosystem supports VPX-based systems

Saturday, October 16, 2010 9:00 AM | VITA MarCom (Administrator)

Vincent Chuffart, Kontron

A plethora of VPX (VITA 46) specifications prompted the need to develop a framework for system-level interoperability. Hence, OpenVPX interoperability is now in place, and its ecosystem is already maturing with products such as test backplanes, test equipment, and much more. With an experienced group of suppliers offering a variety of OpenVPX compliant technologies, the question is not if a military system designer will initiate a VPX-based application, but when.