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Transceivers
Linear Technology Corporation (Milpitas, CA) has released automotive (H-grade) and high-reliability military (MP-grade) versions of the LTM2881 and LTM2882, isolated μModule® transceivers, which guard against large...
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Code Analysis Tool Suite
LDRA Ltd. (Wirral, Merseyside, UK) has extended the integration of the LDRA source code analysis tool suite with MathWorks Simulink modeling tools. With the integration, Simulink model test vectors can confirm an...
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Quad-Core Computer-on-Module
The conga-QMX6 Qseven Computer-on-Module from congatec (San Diego, CA) is equipped with the Freescale i.MX6 ARM Cortex A9 processor. The processor product line, scalable from 1 to 4 ARM cores, features a 3D-ready HD...
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Engineers to Add Arms and Hands to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), such as those used by the military for surveillance and reconnaissance, could be getting a hand – and an arm – from engineers at Drexel University...
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New Software Can Identify Coverage Problems Before Network Deployment
A Tennessee company has licensed award-winning software from Oak Ridge National Laboratory that will help industries install wireless networks more cost-effectively in...
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Researchers Use Graphene to Make Wireless Communications More Flexible
Michael Lekas and Sunwoo Lee, electrical engineering Ph.D. candidates, have been awarded a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF) and the accompanying $100,000 prize. They...
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Army Developing Female-Specific Body Armor
Today, both male and female soldiers wear body armor that has been designed for men. But next summer the Army plans to field a new type of body armor designed for women that will be shorter in the...
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Army Stryker Units Get Armed With Precision Mortars
The first-ever Accelerated Precision Mortar Initiative round fired from a Stryker vehicle in Afghanistan accomplished what few conventional 120mm high-explosive mortars can achieve - a direct...
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Air Force Uses 3-D Scanner to Model Aircraft
When the 46th Test Wing's Air Force SEEK EAGLE Office purchased a 3-D laser scanner system six months ago, they had no idea how much of an impact the system would make.
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UAV Applications Challenge the Limits of Embedded Computing Technologies
Unmanned Vehicles (UAV/UAS) have proven to be vital, strategic new weapons in the military’s arsenal by providing needed critical intelligence, surveillance and...
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Testing Ethernet Based Avionics in Aircraft
Since the 1970’s, military aircraft avionics systems have communicated via the MIL-STD-1553 bus. This has proven to be a very effective method, and is still in widespread use today. MIL-STD-1553 is...
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New Honing Technology Improves Aerospace Accuracy
Invented more than 70 years ago to de-glaze cylinder bores in early automobile engines, conventional honing today is meeting the most advanced aerospace requirements for ultra-precise machined...
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Embedded Graphics Processor
Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids, IA), a designer of communications and avionics systems for the aerospace and defense industries, has selected the AMD Radeon™ E2400 embedded graphics processor for inclusion in its...
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SWORD Simulation Software
MASA Group, a developer of Artificial Intelligence (AI)- based Modeling & Simulation (M&S) software for the defense, public safety, emergency management, and serious games markets, has launched SWORD 5.0, the...
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Telescoping Poles
U.S. Army and Marine troops have cultivated a creative, lifesaving technology out of heavy-duty telescoping poles. The CMD fiberglass telescoping push/pull rods, normally used for cable and wire management applications, are...
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Rugged Processors and Ethernet Switches
GE (Towcester, UK) will be supplying General Dynamics UK with subsystems required for the Demonstration Phase of the Scout Specialist Vehicle family of platforms being designed for the British Army. The...
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Accelerated Processing Unit
With average power below 13 Watts and discrete-class AMD Radeon™ graphics performance integrated into the AMD (Sunnyvale, CA) R-Series APU (Accelerated Processing Unit), applications that previously required a...
Products Electronics & Computers
Temperature Control System
For the production of composite components, SINGLE Temperature Controls (Charlotte, NC) provides hot-water temperature control systems for temperatures up to 437°F. The ATT (Alternating Temperature Technology) units...
Products Electronics & Computers
3U CompactPCI, OpenVPX Computers
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC), a business group of Curtiss- Wright Controls (Charlotte, NC), has introduced 5-slot natural convection-cooled rugged ½ ATRstyle 3U CompactPCI and VPX systems....
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Flash Memory
Aeroflex (Colorado Springs, CO) offers the UT8QNF8M8 64Mbit NOR Flash Memory, a rad-tolerant 3-volt memory organized as 8Mx8 or 4Mx16. For both read and write functions, the UT8QNF8M8 NOR Flash operates from a single power supply...
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VME Single Board Computer
Interface Concept (Briec-de-l’Odet, France) has introduced a VME board based on the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor SL9380/SU9300 associated to the Intel®3100 Chipset. The VME64x- VITA31.1-compliant IC-DC2-VMEb board...
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Rugged Tablet Computer
The programmable, customizable Hydra-T3™ tablet from InHand Electronics (Rockville, MD) features the Pixel Qi WSVGA display with analog resistive multi-touch capabilities. The tablet is powered by InHand’s flagship...
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Precision Oscillators
Lemos International (Barrington, RI) offers a full range of RFX precision SC cut oscillators. RFX (Livingston, Scotland) designs and manufactures standard and customized high frequency precision OCXO, TCXO, VCXO, and PLL...
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Creating a Phased Array Radar for Avalanche Imaging
Avalanches pose a significant threat to human life and settlements, so studying them is key to formulating risk zones. Previously, validating models in order to predict avalanche behavior was...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Radar, Electronic Warfare, and Electronic Intelligence Testing: Identifying Common Test Challenges
Radio detection and ranging (RADAR) systems, as they were originally called, have blossomed into a wide array of indispensible equipment for...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF Integrated Circuit
CML Microcircuits (Winston-Salem, NC) has released the CMX971 quadrature modulator integrated circuit, one of the company’s RF Building Blocks. The RF Building Block range is designed to provide high-performance ICs...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF Connectors
Bomar Interconnect Products (Ledgewood, NJ) offers the vertical or horizontal mount BNC E-Snap™ RF connectors. Developed for employment with PCMICA cards in wireless applications, the connectors are part of the 50-ohm E-Snap...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Vector Signal Generators
The MG3710A series of vector signal generators from Anritsu (Richardson, TX) generates test signals based on all leading technologies, including LTE, LTE Advanced, W-CDMA/HSPA, CDMA2000, GSM and PDC, as well as WLAN,...
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