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Anodized aluminum shaft collars from Stafford Manufacturing Corp. (Wilmington, MA) are ideally suited for structural and drive applications involved with positioning solar arrays.
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In our annual poll of executives at leading design and virtual prototyping software companies, we found that in difficult economic times, providing...
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Embedded vetronics (vehicle electronics) subsystems for rugged deployed ground vehicles have long benefited from the reduced risk, faster time to market, and long lifecycle support...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
As the cooling challenges in embedded system applications have multiplied due to increased processing performance, smaller package and system footprints, and the requirement to operate in more...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Because all solid state flash products are not created equal and flash storage is finding its way into more and more embedded computing applications, system designers should understand...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Today’s rugged embedded computing industry demands the best of technology and reliability. Driven by requirements for higher performance solutions, platforms continually...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The cellular reflectarray antenna is intended to replace conventional parabolic reflectors that must be physically aligned with a particular satellite in geostationary orbit. These arrays are designed for...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A proposed one-dimensional synthetic-aperture microwave radiometer could serve as an alternative to either the two-dimensional synthetic-aperture radiometer described in the...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Ethernet-Enabled Power and Communication Module for Embedded Processors
The power and communications module is a printed circuit board (PCB) that has the capability of providing power to an embedded processor and converting Ethernet packets into serial data to transfer to the processor. The purpose of the new design is to address the...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Electrical Switching of Perovskite Thin-Film Resistors
Electronic devices that exploit electrical switching of physical properties of thin films of perovskite materials (especially colossal magnetoresistive materials) have been invented. Unlike some related prior devices, these devices function at room temperature and do not depend on externally...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Two-Dimensional Synthetic-Aperture Radiometer
A two-dimensional synthetic-aperture radiometer, now undergoing development, serves as a test bed for demonstrating the potential of aperture synthesis for remote sensing of the Earth, particularly for measuring spatial distributions of soil moisture and ocean-surface salinity. The goal is to use the...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Electrically Variable Resistive Memory Devices
Nonvolatile electronic memory devices that store data in the form of electrical-resistance values, and memory circuits based on such devices, have been invented. These devices and circuits exploit an electrically-variableresistance phenomenon that occurs in thin films of certain oxides that exhibit...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Efficient Algorithmic Interleaver for Turbo Decoder
An efficient bit-interleaving algorithm for a turbo encoder differs from prior such algorithms in that it does not require memory to store permutation mappings and can work with constituent decoders that produce multiple bit reliabilities per decoding stage. The algorithm can be implemented in...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Extreme Engineering Solutions (Middleton, WI) has introduced XPedite7201, a conduction- or aircooled PrPMC/XMC module, targeting the Intel® Atom™ processor running at up to 1.6 GHz at under 10W. This card comes with PCI...
Briefs: Information Technology
Generalized Approach to Prognosis for an Engineering System
This new generalized approach to prognostics can provide an automated early failure prediction of an engineering system or its components, often in time to prevent occurrence of hard failures. This approach has been demonstrated in a proof-of-concept software prototype, shown to...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Keithley Instruments (Cleveland, OH) has introduced triaxial cable kits for semiconductor device probers that are capable of handling I-V, C-V, and pulsed I-V signals. Model 4210-MMPC-C is optimized for use with Cascade...
Products: Electronics & Computers
The XM2 from MEN Micro (Ambler, PA) is based on the latest Intel Core 2 Duo SP9300 processor with a clock frequency of up to 2.26 GHz. The advanced Intel processor, combined with the ruggedization and low development costs...
Products: Electronics & Computers
The AT88SA family of low-cost, ultralow- power authentication ICs from Atmel® Corporation (San Jose, CA) have an embedded SHA-256 engine and 256-bit cryptographic key. The first device in the family, the...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Laird Technologies (Chesterfield, MO) has been awarded a supply contract to provide the Stealth II GPS tracking device to Trackn powered by Enfotrace (Irvine, CA). The Stealth II is a selfcontained GPS...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Murata Power Solutions (Mansfield, MA) now offers the Okami™ SIP 10A and 16A output current models of nonisolated single point-of-load (PoL) DC/DC converters. A range comprising four 10A models and four 16A...
Products: Electronics & Computers
LDRA (San Bruno, CA) has released v8.0 of the LDRA tool suite, an automated end-to-end solution for software verification support. By integrating requirements management into the LDRA tool suite using TBreq,...
Products: Electronics & Computers
The HG2405P-135 wide angle, 2.4 GHz antenna from L-com (North Andover, MA) is designed for installation in offices, health facilities, educational settings, industrial sites, and retail complexes. With a footprint...
Products: Electronics & Computers
QNX Software Systems (Ottawa, Canada) has released the QNX® Neutrino® RTOS Secure Kernel v6.4.0, which has been certified to the stringent security requirements of the Common Criteria ISO/IEC 15408 Evaluation Assurance...
Products: Electronics & Computers
The new Intelligent Thermal And Power Supervisor (ITAPS) from Ocular, Inc. (Dallas, TX) allows the company’s industrial panel PCs to be deployed over the extended temperature range of -20°C to...
Products: Electronics & Computers
The new RTS 2701 from Pentek (Upper Saddle River, NJ) is a complete dual-channel transceiver recording and playback system in a standard 19-inch, rack-mount server chassis that can be placed in a...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Green Hills Software (Santa Barbara, CA) recently enhanced its Platform for Secure Networking by adding secure virtualization and new reference platforms. The Green Hills approach to system...
Products: Electronics & Computers
NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA) has introduced what it claims is the most powerful and advanced graphics visualization product lineup in the company’s history. Spanning the range from entry-level to standalone visual computing systems,...
Products: Electronics & Computers
LCR Electronics (Norristown, PA) now offers a line of single phase COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) filters that operates over an extended temperature range of -40°C to +85°C (-40°F to +185°F). The new...
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