BittWare strongly supports open industry standards that enable companies to develop innovative products
that are interoperable with other third party products. By supporting these hardware and software standards we provide our customers with products
that they can easily develop applications for, scale to their projects' needs, and integrate with third party hardware and software.
BittWare designs products for both commercial (convection cooled) and rugged (conduction cooled) applications. Our philosophy separates the architecture and design approach between these two market spaces to ensure that the stringent requirements of a ruggedized design are addressed from inception.
BittWare products are designed to open standards such as VPX, VXS, VME, and, XMC (VITA); CompactPCI, PMC, AdvancedMC for AdvancedTCA carrier cards and MicroTCA (PICMG®); PCI (PCI-SIG®).
BittWare is a member of the OpenVPX Working Group as well as the Steering Committee. The OpenVPX Working Group is a collaboration of industry-leading defense contractors and embedded military COTS vendors, formed to tackle the issue of developing a comprehensive system specification to define a system architecture for VPX and to ensure interoperability among VPX components.
Learn more about OpenVPX
VMEBUS International Trade Association ( VITA) Standards
BittWare is a member of VITA,
an incorporated, non-profit organization of vendors and users having a common market interest in real-time, modular embedded computing systems. BittWare currently supports the following VITA standards:
VPX is a proposed ANSI standard that provides VMEbus-based systems with support for switched fabrics over a new high speed connector. Defined by the VITA working group, it has been designed specifically with defense applications in mind, with an enhanced module standard that enables applications and platforms with superior performance. VPX retains VME’s existing 6U and 3U form factors, supporting existing PCI Mezzanine Card and XMC mezzanines (PMC with high-speed serial fabric interconnect), and maintaining the maximum possible compatibility with VMEbus.
New generations of embedded computing systems based on the VPX standard reflect the growing significance of high speed serial switched fabric interconnects such as PCI Express, RapidIO, Infiniband and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. VPX gives the large existing base of VMEbus users access to these switched fabrics.
VITA 48 is the Ruggedized Enhanced Design Implementation (REDI) version of VPX. It specifically provides enhanced support for various cooling methodologies: enhanced forced-air cooling, advanced conduction cooling, and liquid cooling. It also addresses the use of ESD covers on both sides of the board, a necessary feature for military two-level maintenance strategies
VITA 41, VMEbus Switched Serial or VXS, is a proposed ANSI standard that combines parallel VMEbus with enhancements to support switched serial fabrics including PCI Express, RapidIO, StarFabric and InfiniBand over a new high speed P0 connector. Backward compatibility is maintained with existing backplanes that do not have a conflicting P0 scheme. Combining the VME2eSST parallel bus with switch fabric technologies for multi-point, high-speed data transfers creates choices for embedded computing designs of all types. The standard also incorporates ANSI/VITA 1.7, allowing more DC power input into each board.
The VITA 41.2 extension adds serial RapidIO® fabric as an option to the base VXS architecture.
PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG) Standards
BittWare is a member of the PICMG, the governing body of the PCI Trade Association. We contribute to the PICMG working groups that are actively renewing the cPCI and ATCA architecture and ecosystem. We currently support the following PICMG standards:
- Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC)
- 3U and 6U CompactPCI
- PMC
Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) Standards
BittWare is a member of the PCI-SIG, whose goal is to deliver a stable, straightforward and compatible standard for PCI devices. We currently support the following PCI-SIG standards:
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