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RTC focuses on how OEMs can achieve solutions within the standards-based environment. Solutions Engineering covers the impact of standards such as ATCA and IPv6 and issues such as EMI and SAF specifications for systems that are built and deployed to address real-world situations.
High Availability
High Availability Moves Beyond Telecom
by Bill Yaman, GoAhead Software
December 2009
The topic of Highly Available (HA) Systems is a crucial one for the readers of RTC magazine. Vendors to key verticals such as telecommunications and manufacturing have spent years andRead More...
MicroTCA Spans Applications
High Bandwidth and Small Form Factor MicroTCA for Flexible Embedded Design
Sven Freudenfeld and David Pursley, Kontron
November 2009
Embedded systems must meet the growing demand for ruggedness, flexibility, mobility and high-end processing, and these attributes should be designed into standards-based solutions thatRead More...
MicroTCA Spans Applications
Concept to Reality: An Application Architecture with MicroTCA
Tony Romero, Performance Technologies
November 2009
Much has been written about the virtues of MicroTCA platforms and AdvancedMC (AMC) modules. Both of these technologies have been maturing and there are now numerous options andRead More...
Solid State Drives
SSDs Increase Performance and Reliability in Embedded Applications
by Gary Drossel, Western Digital
October 2009
In 1999, solid-state drives (SSDs) in their nascent 3.5-inch form factors cost as much as $42,000 for 14 Gbytes and were used primarily for high-end military and industrial embeddedRead More...
Solid State Drives
Extend SSD Lifetime Using the Network Database Model
by John Pai, Raima Division of Birdstep Technology
October 2009
Solid-State Drives (SSDs) have evolved to become a viable option to replace rotating Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) in many embedded systems. This is because SSDs eliminate the single largestRead More...
High Temp in Small Spaces
Thermal Management of High Power in Small Spaces: Myths and Misconceptions Challenged
Bob Sullivan and Michael Palis, Hybricon
September 2009
As power dissipation of electronics increases in parallel to the miniaturization pressures on these same volumes, previous rules of thumb and myths involving system-level thermalRead More...
High Temp in Small Spaces
Thermal Management for the Small Box
Joe Primeau, Acromag
September 2009
Today’s industrial and military customers are demanding computer systems that have the ability to operate in a wider array of applications than traditional industrial and commercialRead More...
Serial Interconnects Move to the Next Generations
PCI Express Gen 3: Twice as Nice -- and Then Some
Steve Moore, PLX Technology
August 2009
With each successive generation of the industry standard PCI Express (PCIe) interconnect, the technology has been able to double its bandwidth, while at the same time adding featuresRead More...
Serial Interconnects Move to the Next Generations
Serial RapidIO 2.0 Moves into the Wireless Infrastructure
Stephen M. Nolan and Devashish Paul, IDT
August 2009
The wireless industry continues to look to Serial RapidIO to address the needs of mobile users and increase the quality of service. The latest version, Serial RapidIO 2.0, addressesRead More...
Data Acquisition
Maximizing Resources in Data Acquisition Systems with a Network Data Model
John Pai, Birdstep Technology
July 2009
Data acquisition devices have come a long way, but since the first devices were created, one thing has remained the same: they have limited resources. In such embedded devices highRead More...
Intelligent Power Management
RTOS - The Heart of Good Power Management
Lotta Frimanson, IAR Systems
June 2009
Low power consumption is an essential requirement in many embedded applications. The growing importance of battery-powered applications for portable electronics, home automation andRead More...
The Incredible Shrinking Server Blade
The Incredible Shrinking Blade Server: New Possibilities beyond the Data Center
David Pursley, Kontron
May 2009
While blade servers have grown in popularity as a high-density, cost-efficient and space-saving alternative to rackmount servers in data centers and server farms, newer computingRead More...