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Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
The VLT(R) series variable frequency drive from Danfoss Drives (Loves Park, IL) comes in ratings up to 1350 HP at voltages of 460 and 690 VAC. F1 frame models deliver up to 1050 HP in an 86.8 in. × 55.1 in. × 23.9-in....
Products: Electronics & Computers
EPOS, the second generation intelligent positioning controller from Maxon Precision Motors (Fall River, MA), is suited for applications requiring decentralized drive intelligence. Based on the CANopen standard, the drive...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
All electronic devices generate heat due to their unavoidable internal losses and inefficiencies. The higher the efficiency rating of the device, the less internal heat is generated...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
The PMC, or PCI Mezzanine Card, follows the IEEE P1386.1 standard for printed circuit boards. PMCs combine the electrical characteristics of the PCI bus with the mechanical dimensions of the Common Mezzanine Card,...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
What makes the iPhone so great? Touch screen technology. Touch screens are changing the way we interact with technology and with iPhone, Apple has opened the floodgates of innovation for the function and design of...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The colonel has a problem. He has eight unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) flying over the outskirts of Baghdad, looking for potential insurgent activity. Are those people he sees moving through...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Diamond Systems (Mountain View, CA) has announced Neptune, an ultra-high-integration EPIC form factor single board computer that combines state-of-the-art CPU and I/O technology with Diamond Systems' high accuracy...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Intel Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) has released new processors with extended seven-year lifecycle support, a new chipset, and a carrier-grade server. The processors are based on Intel's high-k, metal gate...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Congatec AG (Deggendorf, Germany) and SECO (Arezzo, Italy) have jointly created a new form factor for embedded computing. The Qseven format will complement the low power and small size of next-generation embedded...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Luminary Micro (Austin, TX) has released communications modules and reference design kits for Ethernet-enabled display applications and serial- to-Ethernet communications...
Products: Electronics & Computers
LynuxWorks (San Jose, CA) unveiled the LynxSecure 2.0, its next-generation separation kernel and embedded hypervisor. LynxSecure 2.0 virtualizes the underlying hardware to enable multiple different...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Master Bond (Hackensack, NJ) has introduced Master Bond UV10SP-2A, a one-component, flexible, UV curable polymer system for bonding, sealing, and coating with an attractive balance of pertinent physical,...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Active Silicon (Chelmsford, MA) has released the Phoenix D48CL-3CPCI32, a conduction-cooled, 3U CompactPCI Camera Link frame grabber. Designed for extremely rugged environments, the Phoenix operates in...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Aitech Defense Systems Inc. (Chatsworth, CA) offers a compact, multi-I/O PMC for I/O environments. The low-power, single-width M705 features up to five dual-channel, dual-redundant MIL-STD-1553B channels, 16 ARINC-429 receive...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) expanded its mixed-signal and digital-storage oscilloscope portfolio with 10 new models that comprise its InfiniiVision 7000 Series. The InfiniiVision 7000 Series offers bandwidths up to...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Strategic Test Corp. (Woburn, MA) offers two new 250 kHz 16-bit data acquisition cards for PCI Express. The UF2e-4721 has 16 analog inputs and the UF2e-4020 has 8 channels. Features include the options for dual- timebase...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Emerson Network Power (Tempe, AZ) has released the Centellis™ 500, a fully deployable MicroTCA™ system that uses innovative plastic packaging, and Emerson's MicroTCA Carrier Hub (MCH) and high-performance processor...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A proposed wireless- communication and data-processing system would exploit recent advances in radio- frequency identification devices (RFIDs) and software to establish information lifelines between...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Electrostatically actuated nano- electromechanical switches based on carbon nanotubes have been fabricated and tested in a continuing effort to develop high-speed switches for a variety...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A power converter now undergoing development is required to operate at a DC input potential ranging between 5.5 and 10 kV and a DC output potential of 400 V at a current up to 25 A. This...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The figure shows a prototype radial power-combining waveguide structure, capable of operation at frequencies from 31 to 36 GHz, that features an unusually large number (N = 24) of combining...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A submillimeter-wave monolithic integrated- circuit (S-MMIC) amplifier has been designed and fabricated using an indium phosphide (InP) 35-nm gate-length high electron mobility transistor (HEMT)...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
All-solid-state electrochemical power cells have been fabricated and tested in a continuing effort to develop batteries for instruments for use in environments as hot as 500 °C. Batteries of this...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Using Transponders on the Moon to Increase Accuracy of GPS
It has been proposed to place laser or radio transponders at suitably chosen locations on the Moon to increase the accuracy achievable using the Global Positioning System (GPS) or other satellite-based positioning system. The accuracy of GPS position measurements depends on the accuracy of...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A digital control system based partly on an extremum-seeking control algorithm tracks the changing resonance frequency of a piezoelectric actuator or an electrically similar...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Coaxial electric heaters have been conceived for use in highly sensitive instruments in which there are requirements for compact heaters but stray magnetic fields associated with heater electric currents would adversely...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A proposed holographic memory system would be capable of storing data at unprecedentedly high density, and its data-transfer performance in both reading and writing would be...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Systems engineers face a number of challenges when configuring and programming a complex, heterogeneous multiprocessor system of the type often used in digital signal processing...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
The task-specific nature of an embedded system application typically defines a narrow scope of performance requirements. But the range of options for achieving those requirements are broad —...
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