Abstract
This report, Embedded COTS Systems in Military, Aerospace and Defense - Volume
I: North American Merchant Computer Boards Market Assessment, comprises an
examination of the present and future for the COTS products listed below.
Included are current market sizes (base year 2006) and forecasts through year
2011. Trends are identified, markets analyzed, and market development
strategies recommended.
The report is available in four volumes:
- Volume I: North American Merchant Computer Boards Market Assessment
- Volume II: European Merchant Computer Boards Market Assessment
- Volume III: North American Merchant Computer Systems Market Assessment
- Volume IV: European Merchant Computer Systems Market Assessment
Study Scope
- Shipment Sizes and Forecasts - overall supply side data, segmented
in several ways. General segmentation categories include:
- Sales Forces Used - reps/agents, field sales force, internal sales
force, Internet, indirect channels.
- Indirect Sales Channels - segmented between distributors and VARs
(Value-Added Resellers).
- Customer Classes - Defense Contractors, other Systems Integrators
and OEMs (other than Defense Contractors), End Users (Armed Services,
Government Agencies, etc.).
- Platform Types - used generically to denote the highest level of
board segmentation.
These include:
- Slot Cards;
- Embedded Motherboards (not examined in detail);
- Mezzanine Cards and Computers-on-Modules - of these, only PMC and XMC
mezzanine architectures were examined in detail, with limited coverage of
AMCs.PC/104 family and other stackables (not examined in detail); and
- Other platforms (not examined in detail).
Bus Architecture / Form Factor - VME, CompactPCI, PMC and XMC were
examined in detail.
Board Size - 3U, 6U, 9U, other (VME and CompactPCI only).
Ruggedization - extended temperature, shock/vibration resistance, etc.
Merchant Board Types - Single Board Computers (SBCs) and Slot Expansion
Cards for VME and CompactPCI; PMC and XMC mezzanine cards.
Functional Types - include CPU, memory, mass storage/storage control,
graphics/display/video, networking, analog/digital I/O and DSP.
Microprocessor Types - use on SBCs and processor mezzanine cards.
Demand Side Data - Data from users identifying themselves as board
purchasers was segmented similarly, with some additional segmentation based on
the systems in which these boards were to be used.
Research Statistics
- Total Pages: 748
- Phone Survey Sample: 70
- Profiled Vendors: 19
- Total Exhibits: 574
- Web Survey Sample: 250
- Market Forecast Coverage: Through 2011
ABOUT VDC
VDC Research Group (VDC) is an independent technology market research and
strategy consulting firm that specializes in a number of industrial, embedded,
component, retail automation, RFID, AIDC, datacom/telecom, and defense
markets. VDC has been operating since 1971, when the firm was founded by
graduates of the Harvard Business School and Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Today, we employ a talented collection of analysts and consultants
who offer a rare combination of expertise in the market research process;
experience in technology product and program management; and formal training
in engineering and marketing. VDC' s clients include thousands of the largest
and fastest-growing technology suppliers in the world and the most successful
investors participating in the markets we cover.
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