Webinar: VITA 100 Basics

VITA is a trade association that provides open standards that target rugged applications such as military and avionics. VITA 100 is their latest effort designed to incorporate the latest Ethernet standards running at 400G and pushing toward 1.6T. It builds on OpenVPX and VITA 46.30 providing upward migration and compatability. Other standards like the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) build on VITA standards. 

This webinar takes a look at VITA 100 and some of the new VITA 100 standards that are emerging from the standards process including new connectors and board form factors. VITA 100 does not just address faster Ethernet standards. It also addresses new system management support, cooling techniques and connectors. 

These new standards will be needed for future designs that take advantage of high bandwidth and more reliable connectivity to handle the latest GPGPUs, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) accelerators and large chiplet-based solutions that require more power, faster connections and better management. Find out how all this is coming together. 

Bill Wong is Senior Content Director at Electronic Design, an Endeavor Business Media publication. He earned a Bachelor of Electric Engineering at The Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. He has been an engineer, programmer and editor. 

Daniel Toohey is a Fellow Chief Technologist within the Advanced Concepts Group at Mercury Systems. He has been involved in open standards development for over 25 years. Dan chaired and authored multiple VPX standards, created the original architecture, taxonomy, and glossary for OpenVPX at its inception and transitioned it into VITA, has served as the working group chair for VITA 46.11 (System Management for VPX) since inception, co-leads System Management subcommittees in SOSA since its inception, and co-leads the VITA 100.20 System Management working group. Additionally, Dan serves on the SOSA Steering Committee and VITA Standards Organization (VSO) board of directors.

Dan holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, or WPI, with a focus on secure processing.

Michael Walsmley is a Global Product Manager in the Aerospace, Defense and Marine business unit. With a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester, and an MBA from Penn State University, he has over 40 years experience with interconnects primarily in engineering and product management roles. His areas of expertise include interconnect solutions for embedding computing, rugged high speed board level and RF Connectors. Michael is active in the VITA Standards Organization, which drives technology and standards for the bus and board industry.

Mark Littlefield is senior manager of embedded computing products and services for Elma Electronic. He is an active contributor to multiple VITA and SOSA technical working groups, leads the SOSA small-form-factor (SFF) sub-committee, and was co-chair of the VITA 65 OpenVPX working group. He has more than 25 years of experience in embedded computing, where he has held a range of technical and professional roles supporting defense, medical, and commercial applications.

Mark holds bachelor's and master’s degrees in control systems engineering from the University of West Florida, where he wrote his thesis on a neural-net approach to image processing.