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June

2004

C O N T E N T S
FEATURES

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Military Technology Insider
FPGAs’ impact on next generation
sensor digital signal processing
By Duncan Young

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24

VITA News
Understanding the new VITA
specifications
By Ray Alderman

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VMEbus Technology
By Hermann Strass

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Editor’s Foreword
VMEbus alive and advancing ...
By Mark David Barrera

APPLICATION FEATURE: Scientific
The technical challenges of building the
world’s most powerful telescope
By Jason Smith, University of Arizona
SPECIAL FEATURE: VITA Updates
Giving VME backplanes a shot in the arm
By Justin Moll and Michael Munroe,
Bustronic
What engineers need to know about
VXIbus System Specification 3.0
By Scott Kovner, National Instruments

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New Products

COTS TECHNOLOGY FEATURE:
Multiprocessing
Distributed memory or shared memory?
By Doug Clarke, Synergy Microsystems
Want to increase the performance of your
VMEbus-based systems?
By Jürgen Eder, SBS Technologies

COVER CREDITS:
Four Synergy Microsystems Cougar 10 SBCs will be used to control the Large
Binocular Telescope (LBT) under construction in Arizona.

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PRODUCT GUIDE:
SBCs – RTOS – Semiconductors
VME/VXI PRODUCT DIRECTORY

correction
The incorrect Concurrent Technologies SBC was shown as Figure 1
on page 14 of the April issue. The correct SBC can be found at
http://www.gocct.com.

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