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I am not an engineer, but I work with engineers every day. I am a communications manager at a company that supplies AdvancedTCA, MicroTCA and AMC solutions to OEMs and also just happens to be a founding participant and current active member company of CP-TA.
So what’s the connection?
Folks, we’ve got a great webinar cued up for next Tuesday, June 30 at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET called “Fine-tuning xTCA: What’s New with xTCA?” Click here to register.
That is a pretty big question because it covers so many facets of a project. But let’s look at the financials; building a cutting edge ATCA-based HW platform costs about $15-18 million. Not many companies have that kind of budget for HW development anymore. Some readers may say it doesn’t cost that much. Well humor me, because if your accounting department is like mine, it could cost even more.
Since its inception, CP-TA has had a laser focus on solving the issue of interoperability for COTS components based on open standards. There is much work left to do, but we have made strides to ensure that interoperability is no longer a barrier to achieving the promised benefits of COTS-based design of standard architectures like ATCA, MicroTCA and AMC.
Hello dear readers, it’s good to “talk” with you once again. You’re looking fit and tan; have you been working out? (Me neither…)
We’ve nearly completed the winter / spring industry event season, so pretty soon we’ll all have an opportunity to scale back our respective business travels and refocus our collective energy on the “Important but Not Urgent” quadrant of our To Do lists.