Kontron (Eching, Germany) has announced the availability of the intelligent Power-on Built-in Test Solution Kontron PBIT on its VPX/OpenVPX and VME processor boards which serves to improve the reliability, safety and security of mission critical installations. Kontron PBIT provides developers, OEMs, system integrators and users a modular and scalable set of uniform test routines to assess the health status and configuration for both boards and complete systems. Features include:

• Availability as an option for all current and future Kontron 3U and 6U VPX/OpenVPX and VME processor boards.
• The capability to check for the correct system configuration and even identify transient errors.
• An incorporated, common set of firmware sub-commands, thus simplifying the usage even when different CPU boards are being used.

For more information visit www.kontron.com.