XMC: Switched Mezzanine Card Base Specification | Specific goals include supporting: | ANSI Ratified | |
XMC: Parallel RapidIO Protocol Layer | This standard defines an open standard for supporting Parallel RapidIO switched interconnect protocol on the XMC form factor. The objectives of this document are: | ANSI Ratified | |
XMC: Serial RapidIO Protocol Layer | This specification defines an open standard for supporting the Serial RapidIO switched interconnect protocol on the XMC form factor. In light of this objective, specific goals include supporting: | ANSI Ratified | |
XMC: PCI Express Protocol Layer | This standard defines an open standard for supporting PCI Express switched interconnect protocol on the XMC form factor. The objectives of this document are: | ANSI Ratified | |
XMC: 10 GbE Protocol Layer | This standard defines a standard for supporting 10 Gigabit Ethernet using XAUI switched interconnect protocol on the XMC form factor by the assignment of XAUI signals and by the provision of guidelines for the use of XAUI signals. | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX: Base Specification | Commonly known as VPX, this specification family defines entirely new high-speed connectors in part to carry mappings for popular switched serial fabrics including Gigabit Ethernet, PCI Express, Serial RapidIO, InfiniBand, and Aurora. It also defines a new increased power envelope including a 48V profile, and additional cooling methods. | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX: VMEbus Signal Mapping | This standard supplements the VITA 46 base specification with the definition for the VMEbus signals as mapped to a VITA 46 connector. | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX: 4x Serial RapidIO Signal Mapping | This standard supplements the VITA 46 base specification with the definition for the 4x Serial RapidIO signals as mapped to a VITA 46 connector. | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX: PCI Express Signal Mapping | This standard supplements the VITA 46 base specification with the definition for the PCI Express signals as mapped to a VITA 46 connector. | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX: Gbit Ethernet Control Plane Signal Mapping | This standard supplements the VITA 46 base specification with the definition for the Gbit Ethernet signals as mapped to a VITA 46 connector. | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX: 10Gbit Ethernet Signal Mapping | This standard supplements the VITA 46 base specification with the definition for the 10 Gbit Ethernet signals as mapped to a VITA 46 connector. | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX: InfiniBand | This standard supplements the VITA 46 base specification with the definition for the InfiniBand signals as mapped to a VITA 46 connector. | VITA Draft Standard for Trial Use - Lapsed | |
VPX: PMC/XMC Rear I/O Fabric Signal Mapping on 3U and 6U VPX Modules | Because of the numerous possibilities presented by combinations of 3U and 6U VITA46 carriers supporting single or dual width PMC and/or XMC mezzanines it is impractical to provide a fully comprehensive specification. Therefore, this standard will cover only the following combinations, which have been determined the most likely to be actually implemented in practice: | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX: Rear Transition Module | The objectives of this standard are: | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX: System Management | This document defines a system management architecture for VPX systems. The objectives of this standard are: | ANSI Ratified | |
Environments, Design and Construction, Safety, and Quality for Plug-In Units | COTS plug-in units are widely used in commercial and military, ground and aerospace, mobile applications. Certification of COTS plug-in units, by supplying vendors, to this standard will facilitate the cost effective integration of these items in larger systems. | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX REDI: Ruggedized Enhanced Design Implementation Mechanical Base Specification | This standard provides an overview of the associated plug-in units for air-cooling, conduction cooling, and liquid flow thru and spray cooling applications. Specific connector-mounting details are defined in VITA 46. The VITA 48 family of standards will define applicable detailed dimensions of key module and sub-rack interfaces. The implementations described in this standard are targeted for 3U and 6U form factor boards on 0.85 and 1.00 centers. However, the packaging approach presented is applicable to boards with other form factors, different connector series and can accommodate alternate module pitches. | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX REDI: Mechanical Specifications for Microcomputers Using Air Cooling Applied to VPX | This standard defines the dimensions of associated plug-in units for air-cooling applications and connector-mounting details together with applicable detail dimensions of key sub-rack interfaces. The module assemblies defined by this standard will be compatible with two level maintenance applications. | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX REDI: Mechanical Specifications for Microcomputers Using Conduction Cooling Applied to VPX | This standard defines the dimensions of associated plug-in units for conduction cooling applications and connector-mounting details together with applicable detail dimensions of key sub-rack interfaces. The module assemblies defined by this standard will be compatible with two level maintenance applications. | ANSI Ratified | |
VITA 48.3 | VPX REDI: Mechanical Specification Using Liquid Cooling Applied to VPX, Manifold Below the Backplane | This standard defines the dimensions of associated plug-in units for liquid cooling applications and connector-mounting details together with applicable detail dimensions of key sub-rack interfaces. The module assemblies defined by this standard will be compatible with two level maintenance applications. | Working Group - Draft |
VITA 48.4 | VPX REDI: Mechanical Specification Using Liquid Flow Thru Applied to VPX | This standard will establish the mechanical design requirements for a LFT cooled electronic VPX module. | Working Group - Draft |
VPX REDI: Mechanical Specification Using Air Flow-through Cooling Applied to VPX | This standard establishes the design requirements for an air-flow-through cooled plug-in unit with a 6U form factor. | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX REDI: Mechanical Specification Using Air Flow-By Cooling Applied to VPX | This standard establishes the design requirements for an Air Flow-By cooled plug-in unit with a 6U form factor. | ANSI Ratified | |
VITA Radio Transport (VRT) | This standard defines a transport-layer protocol designed to promote interoperability between RF (radio frequency) receivers and signal processing equipment in a wide range of applications. | ANSI Ratified | |
VITA Radio Link Layer (VRL) | This standard specifies an optional encapsulation protocol for VITA-49.0 (VRT) packets. | ANSI Ratified | |
VITA 49.2 | VITA Radio Transport (VRT) Control Packets | This standard specifies rules for control packets. | Working Group - Draft |
Spectrum Survey Interoperability | This document specifies an interoperability standard that is applicable to spectrum-survey applications. It is intended to foster high-throughput and adaptable processing in a large-scale environment. It specifically considers the needs of devices based around 32-/64-bit general-purpose processors (GPP) and FPGAs that utilize Internet Protocol (IP) as the underlying transport between processing devices. | ANSI Ratified | |
Reliability Prediction | This document provides an electronics failure rate prediction standard, and establishes a Community of Practice. It addresses the limitations of existing prediction practices with a series of subsidiary specifications that contain the "best practices" within industry for performing electronics failure rate predictions. The development of ANSI/VITA 51.0 and the subsidiary specifications is an effort to give the mean time between failure (MTBF) calculations consistency and repeatability. | ANSI Ratified | |
Reliability Prediction: MIL-HDBK-217 Subsidiary Specification | This standard provides standard defaults and methods to adjust the models in MIL-HDBK-217F Notice 2. This is not a revision of MIL-HDBK-217F Notice 2 but a standardization of the inputs to the MIL-HDBK-217F Notice 2 calculations to give more consistent results. | ANSI Ratified | |
Physics of Failure Reliability Predictions | This standard includes a discussion of the philosophy, context for use, definitions, models for key failure mechanisms, definition of the input data required, default values if technically feasible or the typical range of values as a guideline. It defines how modeling results are interpreted and used. It requires the documentation of modeling inputs, assumptions made during the analysis, modifications to the models and rationale for the analysis. | ANSI Ratified | |
Qualification and Environmental Stress Screening in Support of Reliability Predictions | This standard provides rules, permissions, and observations to assure that cost effective Qualification and Environmental Stress Screening support valid reliability predictions and enhance electronics reliability. It includes a discussion of the systems engineering relationships between Qualification, Environmental Stress Screening, and reliability. | ANSI Ratified | |
Standard for Commercial Technology Market Surveillance | Technology refresh events are fueling the large majority of new DoD acquisition efforts in the post-"Perry memo" era of increased DoD reliance on commercial technology vendor design, production, support, and repair services. Preferred DMSMS management method for DoD programs. | ANSI Ratified | |
FMC: FPGA Mezzanine Cards Base Specification | This standard describes an IO mezzanine module, which shall connect to, but is not limited to, 3U and 6U form factor cards. This mezzanine module is in a smaller form factor, when compared to PMC/XMC modules and assumes that it will be connected to a FPGA device or other device with reconfigurable IO capability. This standard describes FMC IO modules and introduces an electro-mechanical standard that creates a low overhead bridge. This is between the front panel IO, on the mezzanine module, and an FPGA processing device on the carrier card, which accepts the mezzanine module. | ANSI Ratified | |
VITA 57.2 | FMC: Metadata Description | XML metadata descriptions for FMC. | Working Group - Draft |
Line Replaceable Integrated Electronics Chassis | This standard provides common design and performance requirements for a family of integrated electronic chassis incorporating updated industry standard high speed electronic assemblies and designed for rugged environments. | ANSI Ratified | |
Line Replaceable Integrated Electronics Chassis, Liquid Cooled | This standard identifies the particular requirements for a liquid cooled chassis configuration conforming to the ANSI/VITA 58.0 base specification. | ANSI Ratified | |
VITA 59.0 | Rugged COM Express? | This standard VITA 59.0, Rugged System-On-Module Express RSE, describes an innovative step forward for the provision of high-speed serial interconnects for computer modules and makes such modules usable in harsh-environment applications. | Working Group - Draft |
VPX: Alternative Connector for VPX | This standard describes VITA 60.0 Alternate Connector for VPX for VMEbus systems VITA 60.0 provides an alternative connector to the one specified in VITA 46.0, VPX Baseline Standard. Because the 46.0 and the 60.0 connectors are not intermateable a VITA 60.0 module will not plug into a VITA 46.0 backplane and vice versa. However, the VITA 60.0 draft standard provides VPX users with the flexibility to choose a VPX module and backplane connector combination for their specific application requirements. | ANSI Ratified | |
XMC 2.0 | This standard, based upon VITA 42.0 XMC, defines an open standard for supporting high-speed, switched interconnect protocols on an existing, widely deployed form factor, but utilizing an alternate, ruggedized, high speed mezzanine interconnector known as VITA 61 XMC 2.0. | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX: Power Supply | Defines the power generation requirements for a module that can be used to power systems that support a VITA 62 slot on the VPX backplane. VITA 62 uses the standard VPX 3U/6U form factor and complies to the requirements defined in VITA 48.0. VITA 62 has utility functionality that includes N+1 failover, VBAT and 50ms holdup. VITA 62 defines a set of connectors that mate with a VITA 62 compatible backplane such that VITA 62 module can be plugged into the backplane. | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX: KVPX Alternate Connector | This document describes an open standard for VITA 63.0 Hyperboloid Alternative Connector for VPX. This standard provides an alternative connector to the one specified in the VITA 46.0 VPX Baseline Standard. Because the 46.0 and the 63.0 connectors are not intermateable, a VITA 63.0 module will not plug into a VITA 46.0 backplane and vice versa. However, the VITA 63.0 draft standard provides VPX users with the flexibility to choose a VPX module and backplane connector combination for their specific application requirements. | ANSI Ratified | |
OpenVPX Architectural Framework for VPX | The OpenVPX System standard was created to bring versatile system architectural solutions to the VPX market. Based on the extremely flexible VPX family of standards, the OpenVPX standard uses module mechanical, connectors, thermal, communications protocols, utility, and power definitions provided by specific VPX standards and then describes a series of standard profiles that define slots, backplanes, modules, and standard development chassis. | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX: Optical Interconnect On VPX - Base Standard | This standard defines a family of blind mate Fiber Optic interconnects for use with VITA 46 backplanes and plug-in modules. | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX: Optical Interconnect On VPX - MT Variant | MT Mechanical Mating I/F Definition | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX: Optical Interconnect On VPX - ARINC 801 | ARINC 801 Mechanical Mating I/F Definition | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX: Optical Interconnect On VPX - Expanded-Beam | Expanded Beam Mechanical Mating I/F Definition | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX: Optical Interconnect On VPX - Half Width MT Variant | Half Width Optical Interconnect | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX: Coaxial Interconnect - Base Standard | This standard establishes a structure for implementing blind mate analog coaxial interconnects with VPX backplanes and plug-in modules, and to define a specific family of interconnects and configurations within that structure. | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX: Coaxial Interconnect , 3U, 4 Position SMPM Configuration | This standard details the configuration and interconnect within the structure of VITA 67.0 enabling a 3U VITA 46 interface containing multi-position blind mate analog connectors with up to 4 SMPM contacts. | ANSI Ratified | |
VPX: Coaxial Interconnect , 6U, 8 Position SMPM Configuration | This standard details the configuration and interconnect within the structure of VITA 67.0 enabling a 6U VITA 46 interface containing multi-position blind mate analog connectors with up to 8 SMPM contacts. | ANSI Ratified | |
VITA 67.3 | VPX: Coaxial Interconnect, 6U, 4 Position SMPM Configuration | This standard details the configuration and interconnect within the structure of VITA 67.0 enabling a 6U VITA 46 interface containing multi-position blind mate analog connectors with up to 4 SMPM contacts. | Working Group - Draft |
VPX: Compliance Channel | This standard defines a VPX compliance channel including common backplane performance criteria required to support multiple fabric types across a range of defined baud rates. | VITA Draft Standard for Trial Use | |
VPX: Fixed signal integrity budget | This standard defines a fixed signal integrity budget for a VPX compliance channel. | VITA Draft Standard for Trial Use | |
VITA 69.0 | Common Glossary | Glossary of technical terms commonly used in VITA standards. | Working Group - Draft |
VITA 70.0 | Common Standard Template | Standard formats to be used for VITA standards. VITA Member use only. | Working Group - Draft |
Small Form Factor | Provides a standard mechanical format for standardization of switched serial interconnects for small form-factor applications, with specific concern taken to allow deployment in ruggedized environments. | VITA Draft Standard for Trial Use | |
Nano Small Form Factor | Provides a standard mechanical format for standardization of switched serial interconnects for small form-factor applications, with specific concern taken to allow deployment in ruggedized environments. | VITA Draft Standard for Trial Use | |
Rugged Small Form Factor - Base Standard | This draft standard for a rugged small form factor describes overall subsystem attributes such as the envelope of the subsystem (box) and the organization of the dot specifications. | VITA Draft Standard for Trial Use - call for participation | |
Rugged Small Form Factor - Subsystem I/O Interfaces | This draft standard for a rugged small form factor describes the standardization of front panels, connectors, I/O signal pin assignments, and power for VITA 75 subsystems. | VITA Draft Standard for Trial Use | |
Rugged Small Form Factor - Cooled via Free Air Convection | This draft standard for a rugged small form factor describes the standardization of mounting and cooling for free air convection cooled VITA 75 subsystems. | VITA Draft Standard for Trial Use | |
Rugged Small Form Factor - Cooled via Conduction to Cold Plate | This draft standard for a rugged small form factor describes the standardization of mounting and cooling for conduction to a cold plate cooled VITA 75 subsystem. | VITA Draft Standard for Trial Use | |
High Performance Cable - Ruggedized 10 Gbaud Bulkhead Connector for Cu and AOC Cables | This standard defines a rugged standardized 10 Gbaud interconnect system with high pin count and high density for I/O. It is capable of supporting multiple protocols and power while being interoperable with both Copper Cabling and Active Optic Cabling. | ANSI Ratified | |
SpaceVPX Systems | This document describes an open standard for creating high performance fault tolerant interoperable backplanes and modules to assemble electronic systems for spacecraft and other high reliability (availability) applications. Such systems will support a wide variety of use cases across the aerospace community that includes non-spacecraft systems. This standard leverages the VPX standards family and the commercial infrastructure that supports these standards in non-space applications. | ANSI Ratified | |
VITA 79 | Embedded Photonics | Develop a standard based on work done by the JEDEC 13.6 subcommittee. VITA is currently soliciting members to join the working group. Contact VITA if you are interested in participating in this effort. | Working Group - Draft |
VITA 80 | Interoperability | Develop a method for testing interoperability among VPX modules. | Working Group - Draft |