VME Interfaces Return to FPGAs (.PDF Download)

July 6, 2016

In the 40 years of the VME interface’s existence, board designers have implemented it on rugged embedded modules in a variety of ways. Recently, the leading approach has come nearly full circle, returning to FPGA-based interfaces, one of the earliest methods...

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