ATCA Newsletter for February - March 2012

• Contributing Editor Perspective
  MicroTCA.4 Offers a New Cost-Performance Tradeoff
• Organization Updates
  OpenSAF Announces Release 4.2 of Its High Availability Middleware
  Performance with RapidIO and Multiple Intel Processors
  Introduction to AXIe 2.0, Part 1
• Feature Articles
  AdvancedTCA: Does It Have a Future?
  Standardized Memory Solutions for Embedded Systems
  Speeding up DSP Applications
  Providing Profitable Mobile Video and Voice Services over LTE

COM Express: Lead the Small Form Factor Board Race

Year-end 2010 proved to be quite a successful year reflecting a growth of 120% over 2009 reaching over $130 million as shown in the revenue graph below.

If one assumes typical module prices in volume of $500 to $1,000, this corresponds to 130,000 to 260,000 modules shipped. The large number of applications for COM Express and their significant volumes (often in the thousands or tens of thousands) indicates that such growth should continue for several years.

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The ATCA Newsletter is a bi-monthly publication focused on AdvancedTCA-related topics (including AdvancedMCs, MicroTCA, and other related specifications). It includes short contributed articles, reviews, stories, notes, and news from relevant companies and organizations, including such groups as Service Availability (SA) Forum, OpenSAF Foundation, RapidIO Trade Association, Communications Platforms Trade Association (CP-TA), SCOPE Alliance, AXIe Consortium, and UNH-IOL (University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory). Its area of interest is the design and development of telecommunications and military communications equipment. Current circulation is about 25,000, including 10,000 from a co-publishing agreement with Hearst Electronics Group.

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