Technical Insights

OpenSystems Publishing Taps RapidIO Trade Association
Members For Series Of Technical Articles

OpenSystems Publishing, whose mission is to promote the development and use of open standards and new technologies in the embedded computing industry, has tapped the RapidIO Trade Association and its members to create a series of RapidIO-based technical articles for four of its publications. Articles will appear in Embedded Computing Design, Military Embedded Systems, DSP-FPGA.com, and CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA Systems throughout 2006 and will address a wide range of design and application topics.

  • CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA Systems will feature a two-part article called “Fabric Technologies For ATCA - No "King" In An Agnostic World” by Partha Datta Ray of GDA Technologies; “RapidIO, a High Performance Solution for IP Multimedia Services” by Peter Yan of Erlang Technologies, and “Protocol Testing Needs Of The RapidIO Standard” by Barbara Aichinger of FuturePlus Systems.
  • Embedded Computing Design will publish “PowerPC, RapidIO and Wireless Communications” by Victor Menace of AMCC, as well as a “State of RapidIO” special issue that will include perspectives from the RapidIO Trade Association and many of its members.
  • Tracy Richardson of Mercury Computer Systems will contribute piece on the “Value of RapidIO Cores and SOCs” and Bill Beane of IDT will pen “Complementary Solutions for FPGAs and DSPs in Wireless Infrastructure,” both for DSP-FPGA.com.
  • Military Embedded Systems will run “Probing for Standard Logic Analyzers” by Barbara Aichinger of FuturePlus Systems along with “VPX-REDI in Radar Applications” by Eran Cohen Strod of Mercury Computer Systems.

Check the publications, this newsletter and http://www.RapidIO.org for more information and links as the pieces are published.

The February issue of VMEbus Systems another OpenSystems Publishing magazine included an article by Eran Cohen Strod of Mercury Computer Systems entitled, “RapidIO Fabric Unifies VITA And PICMG Platform Architectures.” To read the complete article, visit: http://www.vmebus-systems.com/articles/search/fm/.