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What’s the Difference Between VME and VPX? (.PDF Download)

April 5, 2016

Many engineers are new to the embedded computing market. They may be familiar with these backplane architectures, but don’t have a full understanding of the evolution of VME/VPX and their differences. We’ll try to answer these questions...

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