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Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF Design Software
Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, CA) offers EMPro 2011.11 Electromagnetic Professional software, a 3D modeling and simulation platform that features enhancements to further speed and improve RF design and verification....
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF Inductors
AVX Corp. (Fountain Inn, SC) offers the MLO™ 0402 Series, a multilayer organic RF inductor in a 0402 case size that offers tight tolerance in a small footprint. Providing high-Q and high self-resonance, the RoHS-compliant...
Products Imaging
Infrared Camera
Telops (Quebec, Canada) has announced the TEL-1000 MW InSb infrared camera. The TEL- 1000 MW InSb covers the 3.6 to 4.9 μm wavelength range, and can be customized to cover an extended range from 1.5 to 5 μm. The device...
Products Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Flow Switch
The Model 1100 from Thomas Products (Southington, CT) is an inline flow sensor that monitors insufficient or excessive flow rates of liquids. A magnet-equipped shuttle is displaced at the proper calibrated flow of liquid to actuate...
Products Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Wire Thread Insert
Spiralock (Madison Heights, WI) has introduced its 2-56 Drive Notch™ (DN™) tang-free wire thread insert. Spiralock’s Drive Notch inserts feature a patented 30-degree “wedge” ramp formed into a 5-sided wire. The...
Products Imaging
Sunlight Readable LCDs
Comark Corp. (Medfield, MA) offers LEDbased, sunlight-readable LCDs with transflective film enhancements. The Opti-Bright Series, available in 12", 15", and 17" sizes, features 0-100% adjustable brightness control for...
Products Motion Control
DC Motors
ThinGap (Ventura, CA) has expanded its line of laminated-copper DC brushless ironless motors to include 8 models ranging from 250 to 600 oz-in of peak torque, and maximum continuous speeds ranging from 2,710 to 16,305 rpm. To allow...
Products Imaging
Rugged Handheld Displays
IEE (Van Nuys, CA) offers a line of rugged, military-qualified handheld control display units (CDUs). The display sizes and resolutions range from 4-line 2.8" character displays up to full graphic displays and from 3.5"...
Products Electronics & Computers
Flexible Flat Cables
Cables from Cicoil (Valencia, CA) encapsulate individual components in a shock-absorbing silicone jacket that protects from repeated exposure to vibration, temperatures between -65°C to +260°C, harsh weather, and turbulent flight. Each cable can incorporate a variety of elements including power conductors, shielded signal...
Products Test & Measurement
Drive Test Scanner
Rohde & Schwarz (Columbia, MD) has developed a multi-functional universal radio network analyzer that provides drive testing. The R&S®TSMW drive test scanner supports Long Term Evolution (LTE) formats in communication bands,...
Products Electronics & Computers
MIL-STD-1553 PCIe Module
The MIL-STD-1553 PCI Express module from AIM GmbH (Trevose, PA) features up to 4 dual redundant MIL-STD-1553A/B streams on one card. The design includes a high-speed FPGA with integrated PCI-Express bus (2.5 Gb/s rates)...
Products Electronics & Computers
Mixed-Signal Modules
Mercury Computer Systems (Chelmsford, MA) has released two small-form-factor-based products with SWaP characteristics: the Echotek® Series RFM-251-XMC tuner and the wideband DCMV6- XMC digital transceiver. The mixed-signal...
Products Materials
Hydrophobic Coatings
Boyd Coatings Research Co. (Hudson, MA) has developed the CRC 6000-line Hydrophobic Coating, a customized coating used primarily on radomes, satellite dishes and other communication installations to prevent water film from...
Products Materials
Copper Foam
Copper foam from Goodfellow (Oakdale, PA) combines the thermal conductivity of copper with the structural benefits of a metal foam. The matrix of cells and ligaments is repeatable, regular, and uniform throughout the material,...
Products Electronics & Computers
MIL-STD-1553 Development Kit
Data Device Corporation (Bohemia, NY) has released the Total-AceXtreme™ MILSTD- 1553 hardware/software development kit. The package includes design documentation, simulation models, and software so that users can...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Using High-Level Language to Implement Floating-Point Calculations on FPGAs
The scientific community is interested in using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for scientific computations because they can be targeted for specific...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Managing Security in FPGA-Based Embedded Systems
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) combine the programmability of processors with the performance of custom hardware. As they become more common in critical embedded systems, new techniques...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
CMOS-Memristor Hybrid Nanoelectronics
The memristor is the fourth fundamental passive electronic device in addition to the resistor, capacitor, and inductor. By integrating with complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices, memristors show promise for development of revolutionary new nanoelectronic computing architectures with...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Dynamically Reconfigurable Software-Defined Radio for GNSS Applications
Historically, the military has used special- purpose Global Positioning System (GPS) radios for radio navigation. This has the disadvantage of locking users into fixed technology solutions designed to meet a fixed set of requirements. Software Defined Radios (SDR) have the...
Briefs Materials
Investigation of Basalt Woven Fabrics for Military Applications
Basalt rock is a black or gray fine-grained rock in the family of igneous rocks, formed by cooling of molten lava. It is commonly found in the Earth’s crust, is abundant...
Briefs Materials
Size Scale and Defect Engineered Nanostructures for Optimal Strength and Toughness
Realistic combinations of ceramics and/or semiconductors have been developed that simultaneously achieve high hardness (>40 GPa) and toughness (>400 MPa*m1/2). To achieve this goal, there were three primary objectives: (1) the development of physically base...
Briefs Imaging
Computational Cameras
A computational camera uses a combination of optics and software to produce images that cannot be taken with traditional cameras. A variety of computational cameras has been demonstrated; some designed to achieve new...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Miniature Snapshot Multispectral Imager
Multispectral imagers use an optical device that can separate the colors to obtain the spectral content in the scene. Such an optical device could be a grating or prism, a filter wheel, a diffractive...
Briefs Information Technology
Two-Way, Freeform, Speech-to-Speech Translation Systems for Tactical Use
The Spoken Language Communication and Translation System for Tactical Use (TRANSTAC) is developing and fielding freeform, two-way translation systems that enable speakers of different languages to communicate with one another in real-world tactical situations without an...
Briefs Information Technology
Universal Sparse Modeling
Sparse data models, where data is assumed to be well represented as a linear combination of a few elements from a dictionary, have gained considerable attention in recent years, and their use has led to state-of-the-art results in many signal and image processing tasks. Sparse modeling calls for constructing a succinct...
Briefs Information Technology
Web Service and Interface for Remote Electronic Device Characterization
A lightweight Web Service (WS) and a Web site interface have been developed that enable remote measurements of electronic devices as a “virtual laboratory.” Using...
INSIDER Defense
Army Rangers Test New Software-Defined Radio
The U.S. Army's 75th Ranger Regiment in Afghanistan recently completed an Operational Assessment of the software-programmable Joint Tactical Radio Systems (JTRS) Rifleman Radio, highlighting its...
INSIDER RF & Microwave Electronics
Antennaless RFID Tags Can Track Metal and Liquids
Tracking and identifying metal objects can prove difficult for some radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. A new patent-pending technology developed by a research team at the Center for...
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