Melissa Heckman, Senior Backplane Engineer, Elma Electronic Inc. BS Electrical Engineering, California Polytechnic State University Melissa is a Senior Backplane Engineer and has been with Elma Electronic for almost 25 years. She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo. Melissa is an indispensable leader in the design…
SOSA-aligned backplanes feature up to eight 25-GB slots
As The Open Group Sensor Open Standards Architecture, or SOSA, initiative continues to move towards completion, Elma Electronic Inc. has added two 3U backplanes to its growing family of products aligned to Snapshot 3 of the SOSA Technical Standard. Available populated with or without VITA 67.3 connectors for timing and RF connectivity, the six-slot and…
OpenVPX provides permanent communications from the ISS to Earth
The International Space Station (ISS), launched in 1998 as a joint effort among several countries committed to space exploration, is comprised of individual modules that were first put together in space. The modules were never integrated with each other on earth. This situation is the same with new systems and platforms sent to the ISS…