Introduction In rugged embedded computing, it’s tempting to treat every new form factor as a replacement for the last one. VNX+ is often described that way, as “the next VPX” or “VPX, but smaller.” That framing misses the point. VPX (ANSI/VITA 46/48/65) and VNX+ (ANSI/VITA 90) were never meant to compete for the same slot […]
If you have worked with the Microchip PolarFire SoC architecture, specifically on customized hardware modules like the SundanceDSP SE301 / SOM1-SoC or PolarBerry, you quickly realize that traditional embedded boot mechanics do not apply here. Unlike an ARM chip that searches for an MBR or a FAT32 partition to find a bootloader, the PolarFire SoC […]
FMC-GPIO module: the split-architecture design ships as an FMC module, a matching auxiliary card, and two flex cables. Full product page and STEP files. The Hook: Why Your FMC Breakout Board Is Fighting You Every FPGA engineer who has built a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) rig, a signal-communications testbed, or a rapid-prototyping bench has run into […]
1. Introduction: The High-Stakes Shift to Secure Edge Computing For decades, embedded systems engineering treated security as a software-layer afterthought, a firmware patch, a TLS stack, a password policy bolted onto hardware that was never designed to resist a determined physical adversary. That model collapses the moment a system leaves a controlled data center and […]