From Aaron Hall
Editor, AXIe Newsletter

Welcome to the May 2022 issue of the AXIe Newsletter.

Just as your customers range in sizes and needs, the solutions you provide need to scale. The AXIe standard Standard can bring scalability to a variety of solution. The AXIe-0 standard focuses on low cost instrumentation in addition to scaleability.

This newseletter has articles to help understanding the the scalablity of AXIE and the low cost instrumentation option of AXIe-0.

AXIe Standards Expand Scalability
Here's an Update

By Larry Desjardin, Modular Methods

Elsewhere in this newsletter you can read about the formalization of the AXIe-0 standard, focusing on low-cost instrumentation. With this formalization, AXIe has created a scalable, yet compatible suite of standards. Let's review them, and how they work together.

The AXIe Standards are all physically based on the ATCA industrial computing standard supported by PICMG, the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group. AXIe-1 is thecore specification for the AXIe standards, and is what most people think of when they hear "AXIe". Associated with AXIe-1 are two other standards, AXIe-CR that clarifies compliance requirements, and AXIe-2 Software Specification that leverages PXI for its module and chassis software requirements. These three together specify the requirements for a compatible AXIe-1 product.

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AXIe-0 Standard Formalized

By Larry Desjardin, Modular Methods

The AXIe-0 standard is advancing to a formal specification.

You may ask, "What is AXIe-0?"

AXIe-0 is pronounced "AXIe Zero" and is titled "Low-Cost Instrument Architecture." Like Coke Zero, AXIe-0 is the diet version of its namesake, AXIe. But instead of cutting calories, AXIe-0 cuts cost and complexity.

AXIe-0 was conceived to meet two objectives. The first objective was to create a standard that would significantly lower the cost of modular instrumentation and switching solutions. The second objective was complete upward compatibility to AXIe-1, the mainstream standard. This is why it was called AXIe-0; it is a subset of the existing AXIe-1 specification.

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