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Sikorsky’s All-New Raider Helicopter Prototype is Ready to Fly
Sikorsky Aircraft unveiled in early October the first of two S-97 Raider lightweight tactical helicopter prototypes. In 2015 Sikorsky plans to offer the S-97 as a replacement for...
Product Briefs Propulsion
Aluminum Cooling Solutions for EV Power Electronics
New aluminum cooling technology for electric and hybrid vehicles from Dana Holding Corp. uses the efficiency of aluminum in its Long brand of integrated cooling plates, designed to enhance...
Application Briefs Electronics & Computers
Flight Critical Power Electronics
Crane Aerospace & Electronics Lynwood, WA 425-743-8321 www.craneae.com Crane Aerospace & Electronics, Power Solutions, will be supplying flight critical power electronics for the new COMAC C919 family...
Application Briefs Defense
Mine-Sweeping Device
Minelab Electronics Torrensville, Australia 61-8-8238-0888 www.minelab.com NIITEK Dulles, VA 703-661-0283 www.niitek.com Minelab Electronics, an Australian company known for its metal detectors, has partnered with NIITEK,...
Application Briefs Defense
Integrated Underwater Security System
ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK Winfrith Newburgh, Dorchester, UK +44-1305-212400 www.uk.atlas-elektronik.com SIGNALIS SAS Bezons, France +33-1-39-96-44-44 www.signalis.com Effective surveillance of coastal border...
Products Aerospace
Digitally Controlled PIN Diode Attenuator
Model A3P-68N-3 from G.T. Microwave (Randolph, NJ) is a digitally controlled PIN diode attenuator that operates from 6.0-18.0 GHz. It is capable of 32 dB range in 0.125 monotonic dB steps with a supply...
Product Briefs Software
Modeling and Simulation Platform
The new release of MapleSim from Maplesoft makes it substantially easier to explore and validate designs, create and manage libraries of custom components, and use MapleSim models within the engineering...
Products Defense
1 GHz, 10 GS/s Oscilloscope
Teledyne LeCroy (Chestnut Ridge, NY) has introduced the WaveSurfer 10 oscilloscope. Offering 1 GHz and 10 GS/s, the WaveSurfer 10 combines the MAUI advanced user interface with powerful waveform processing, in...
Products Materials
Embedded Switch Fabrics
Mercury Systems, Inc. (Chelmsford, MA) has announced its Micro Via Radial Interconnect (MVRI) technology. MVRI improves OpenVPX™ switch fabric interconnect data rates by increasing the signal integrity margin...
Products Sensors/Data Acquisition
Data Acquisition Module
Diamond Systems Corp. (Mountain View, CA) has introduced DSMPE-DAQ0804, a rugged data acquisition PCIe MiniCard module. The DS-MPE-DAQ0804 offers eight 16-bit analog input channels, four 16-bit analog output channels,...
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VPX Single Board Computer
GE Intelligent Platforms (Charlottesville, VA) has announced the SBC626 rugged 6U VPX single board computer (SBC). The technology features the quad-core 4th generation Intel ®Core™ i7 processor (Haswell). The...
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Digital Input Board
United Electronic Industries (UEI) (Walpole, MA) has released the DNx-DIO-449, 48 channel, digital input board. The board is compatible with all of UEI’s popular Cube, RACKtangle and FlatRACK chassis. Features include:...
Products Photonics/Optics
Selective Laser Sintering System
3D Systems has developed its fastest fab-grade selective laser sintering (SLS) system yet, the ProX 500 Plus. Building upon last year’s ProX 500 release, the ProX 500 Plus continues the company’s efforts to...
Products Defense
Dome-Loaded Pressure Regulator
WITT-Gasetechnik’s dome-loaded pressure regulator is impervious to system pressure and withdrawal fluctuations. A design modification to the integrated control pressure regulator ensures an almost complete compensation of supply pressure and outlet fluctuations. Thus, users can rely on constant conditions in the gas...
Products Aerospace
Simulation Software
AVX has released a new version of its SpiCalci simulation software, an engineering tool that calculates performance characteristics and parameters for its switch mode power supply (SMPS) capacitors. Featuring new products, enhanced parts selection and graphing tools, and broader compatibility, the software calculates performance...
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2015 F-150 Aluminum Body Creates Challenge for Auto Body Shops
Aluminum panels for automotive application are nothing new. They've been used for hoods and decklids for many years, particularly when an automaker needed to shave a few pounds...
Products Sensors/Data Acquisition
Laser Measurement
Ophir Photonics’ 1000WP-BB-34 high-power water cooled thermal sensor is designed with the requirement that all materials coming in contact with the cooling water are either copper or nonmetallic. This eliminates the possibility of contaminating the water or corroding the sensor, improving the accuracy and reliability of the...
News Aerospace
Magnetic Field Lines Made Visible in 3-D and Real Time
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute have developed a high-resolution magnetic line camera to measure magnetic fields in real time, which is particularly useful for quality assurance...
News Energy
MIT Provides Yeast a Different Environment for Ethanol Tolerance
Ethanol and other alcohols can disrupt yeast cell membranes, eventually killing the cells. In research funded by the MIT Energy Initiative and the U.S. Department of Energy, researchers at MIT and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research found that adding potassium and...
News Aerospace
'Reman' Engine Market Steady, but Complexity Challenges Production Efficiency
High-tech design causes time to remanufacture engines to nearly triple and adds to cost, while used engines remain a competitive factor. However, Purdue University data shows remanufacturing is far more energy efficient than installing a new powerplant. Read more at...
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Going Off-Road With Hard-Carbon Lithium-Ion Battery Technology
EnerDel’s second-generation Mobile Hybrid Power System (MHPS) was delivered in May to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Research and Development Center in Champaign, IL. It...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
High-Current Chokes for 48-V Systems
TDK Corp.’s BCEM series of EPCOS high-current chokes are designed specifically for buck-boost converters in 48-v automotive power systems. These surface-mount device (SMD) inductors have very compact...
News Software
Simulation Software
AVX has released a new version of its SpiCalci simulation software, an engineering tool that calculates performance characteristics and parameters for its switch mode power supply (SMPS) capacitors. Featuring new products,...
Technology Report Electronics & Computers
3-D Tools Help Development Teams Collaborate
Design and manufacturing challenges are becoming more complex and multi-dimensional, prompting design teams to expand their efforts to collaborate. This change is being aided by a shift to 3-D...
Technology Report RF & Microwave Electronics
FCEVs and Hydrogen Strategies Target 2017
Automakers typically use the annual Los Angeles Auto Show to showcase their environmental technologies to officials of the California Air Resources Board, perhaps the world’s toughest emissions...
Product Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
LIN Family for In-Vehicle Networking
Atmel Corp.’s next-generation family of local interconnect network (LIN) transceivers, system basis chips, and voltage regulators are suitable for automotive body, powertrain, infotainment sensor, and...
News Automotive
Book Focuses on Use of CAE in Analysis of Automotive Composites
"CAE Design and Failure Analysis of Automotive Composites," a new book from SAE International, offers 12 technical papers covering three main areas of expertise, including static...
Product Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Electric Vehicle Interface Controller
Andromeda Interfaces’ electric vehicle interface controller (EVIC) is a fully integrated display device to monitor the operation and safety of an electric vehicle’s major subsystems. EVIC consolidates...
Technical Innovation Power
Argonne, Convergent, and Cummins Team up to Simulate Fuel Injectors
Argonne National Laboratory announced that Cummins, Convergent Science Inc. (CSI), and Argonne’s Virtual Engine Research Institute and Fuels Initiative (VERIFI) entered...
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