PICMG Open Standards Consortium Celebrates 30th Anniversary at Embedded World

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  • 30th anniversary highlighted by two new specification families and industry partnerships
  • New PICMG branding on display at embedded world Hall 5, Booth 342
  • Reception for PICMG members to be held on Wednesday, April 10th at Nuremberg Messe

April 8th, Nuremberg, Germany. For 30 years, PICMG has been shaping the embedded computing industry with standards. However, the organization is by no means resting on its laurels. Quite the opposite: with the ratification of two completely new standards just this year, the consortium and its members are looking forward to the next 30 years. To celebrate this milestone, PICMG is rolling out all new branding, with new logos for all related specifications, in Hall 5, booth 5-342 at this year’s embedded world in Nuremberg.

Founded in 1994, PICMG is a nonprofit consortium of companies and organizations that collaboratively develop open standards for high performance embedded computing applications used by the telecommunications, military, and industrial market sectors.

There are over 140 member companies that specialize in a wide range of technical disciplines, including mechanical and thermal design, single board computer design, very high speed signaling design and analysis, networking expertise, backplane and packaging design, power management, High Availability software, and comprehensive system management. Over 40 members will be showcasing their products based on PICMG specifications at the 2024 Embedded World.

Some of the standards families developed under PICMG include COM-HPC, COM Express®, MicroTCA®, CompactPCI® Serial, AdvancedMC®, CompactPCI®, AdvancedTCA®, as well as the newly ratified ModBlox7 and InterEdge.

In its 30 years of operation, PICMG has published over 60 specifications developed by participants from hundreds of companies. Work across a wide range of markets, applications, and technologies continues as the boundaries of datacom, telecom, mil/aero, industrial, man machine interface applications, and deeply embedded computing blur.

Thousands of products ranging from components, subsystems, and complete application ready systems are commercially available and represent over $5B USD in yearly global revenue.

To Learn More:
Visit the “Value of Open Standards Page” here. Discover more about the open standards environment and learn how your company can participate and profit from belonging to PICMG here. Or, attend the 2024 Embedded World Exhibition & Conference to meet with PICMG representatives in person.

About PICMG
Founded in 1994, PICMG is a not-for-profit 501(c) consortium of companies and organizations that collaboratively develop open standards for high-performance industrial, Industrial IoT, military & aerospace, telecommunications, test & measurement, medical, and general-purpose embedded computing applications. There are more than 150 member companies that specialize in a wide range of technical disciplines, including mechanical and thermal design, single board computer design, high-speed signaling design and analysis, networking expertise, backplane, and packaging design, power management, high availability software and comprehensive system management.

Key standards families developed by PICMG include COM-HPC, COM Express, CompactPCI, AdvancedTCA, MicroTCA, AdvancedMC, CompactPCI Serial, InterEdge, ModBlox7, SHB Express, MicroSAM, and HPM (Hardware Platform Management). For more information, visit https://www.picmg.org.