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An important reason why you cannot have that is that the VME is a shared bus, while PCIe is a very high-frequency LVDS point-to-point system that you absolutely cannot implement on a shared bus.


VPX (VITA 46).

Think of it like VMEexpress.

I use PCIe over VPX every day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPX

Please, lord, somebody else outside of aerospace use it so more vendors get involved and availability and basically everything about the entire supply chain gets better through competition.


I always thought VPX is cool but then again there are no consumer products that use it so it is basically irrelevant.


There are fabric backplane solutions such as fibre channel and microtca (leverages pcie or ethernet).

There's no reason you can't get benefits from a fabric over point-to-point today, it's just big and expensive.


Like I said - not the electric part but the mechanical part.




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