According to ANSI / VITA 1-1994 and ANSI / VITA 1.7-2003
Termination can be switched over between active/passive
Automatic Daisy Chain (ADC)
Outstanding high-frequency noise suppression and very high MTBF due to ceramic capacitors
The VME family will be changed over to SMD techniques and will be available with Electronic Automatic Daisy Chain (EDC). Some of the backplanes are already available. You can find further information in the "User Manual VME / VME64x backplanes" and in the document "New VME Standard Family". You can find those documents at the download section.