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Features Software: It's all about the tools
12 Next-generation programming tools come of age
By Kumaravel Pandurangan, MapuSoft Spring 2011 Volume 29 Number 1
Columns Editor’s foreword
Optional ethics? No freakin’ way By Chris A. Ciufo
VITA news
The big shift in 2011 By Ray Alderman
OpenVPX Interconnects
SSD technology drives OpenVPX storage blades to new levels By Gregory Bolstad, Critical I/O
Departments Editor’s Choice
Events
American Telemedicine Association 2011 Annual Meeting May 1 - 3, 2011 • Tampa, FL
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Embedded Systems Conference - Silicon Valley May 2- 5, 2011 • San Jose, CA
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10 8 Hardware: Radioisotopes for FPGAs? Sure thing. 7
16 Atomic technology powers crypto keys for the long haul: 20-year betavoltaic
batteries rely on tritium electrons Interview with Peter Cabauy, City Labs, Inc.
Special: VPX/OpenVPX on the front lines 20 VITA 62 brings COTS power
supplies to VPX By Patrick Shaw, General Dynamics Canada
23 Outpacing VME: OpenVPX fast-tracks
technologies to the front lines By Brian Roberts, Dawn VME
30 26 VITA 66 expands VPX with fiber-optic
connectivity By Gregory Powers, Tyco Electronics
Technology: Intel boosts SBC, DSP systems 28 Latest Intel processors advance
embedded DSP and SBC system design By Ian Stalker and Alan Baldus, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing
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ON THE COVER: The radioactive isotope Tritium (Hydrogen-3) illuminates watch dials and exit signs ... and also batteries. An interview with start-up City Labs reveals how nano-voltaic batteries work like solar cells, using Tritium particles. See story on page 16.
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