There is significant commonality between unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and UUV environments with standard rugged military commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) embedded solutions often applicable to both.

One example of an FPGA-based VME interface alternative is Curtiss-Wright’s Helix, a field-tested and proven PCI Express-to-VME64x transparent bridge that provides a full VME64xMaster/Slave interface with a direct bridge to a PCI Express upstream port

Aaron Frank discusses the continuation of VME after the end-of-life of the popular Tempe TSI148 VMEbus bridge chip.

Curtiss-Wright's new VME64x Interface replaces the Tempe device with a long-life reconfigurable FPGA solution in order to combat obsolescence.

Curtiss-Wright's new T2080-based VME SBC features an NXP® Power® Architecture T2080 Processor backed with an FPGA-based VME Interface. Read more here!