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Projectors Enhance US Army Flight Simulations
The US Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC), the Army’s focal point for aviation and missile platform research, has replaced its aging projectors with six...
Application Briefs Defense
Low-Voltage Platform Powers US Army's Fuel Efficient Ground Vehicle Demonstrator (FED)
Kollmorgen has released an in-line variant of its lightweight, low voltage Power Generation System, which will be used by the United States Army to deliver...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Disposable Chemical Sensor and Wireless Communication Device
A disposable chemical sensor and temperature device has been developed that may be dropped into building rubble or other areas not accessible by rescue personnel to test the environment in the rubble. The system also provides wireless two-way communication and control to obtain...
Briefs Information Technology
360-Degree Visual Detection and Target Tracking on an Autonomous Surface Vehicle
Operation of autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) poses a number of challenges, including vehicle survivability for long-duration missions in hazardous and possibly...
Briefs Software
Environmental Awareness of Sensor and Emitter Employment
Many Army missions rely on effective sensing capabilities that provide intelligence on the adversary, and protect friendly forces from enemy detection. Sensors that are stationary (microphones, geophones, and ground-based radars) and moving (cameras on unattended aerial vehicles and ground...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Applying OpenVPX to Single Board Computers
For more than two decades, single board computers (SBCs) built on open standards have been largely based on specifications from two preeminent industry organizations, VITA and PICMG. For the 6U...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Using Static Analysis and Code Verification to Improve Embedded Software
Modern software development and test processes encompass a wide range of best practices and development methodologies. Personal preferences and lessons learned — both...
Briefs Materials
Optical Properties of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Mats for Photonic Applications
Carbon nanotubes possess unique electronic properties that are very useful for building electro-optical devices at nanometer scales. In optoelectronic applications, a large number of carbon nanotubes will be assembled in a desired form.
Briefs Materials
Ultraviolet Polymerization of Hydrodynamically Shaped Fibers
Materials composed of stacked plates are stronger than the same materials in bulk. However, such stacked plate materials are generally composed of hard, inorganic materials cemented together by a more flexible substance, and do not occur in long fiber shapes. Very few natural or manmade...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Fabrication of Transparent Carbon Nanotube Films for OLED Applications
The process to prepare single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) solutions with a good degree of dispersion of individually isolated SWCNTs and very thin SWCNT bundles was...
Tech Transfer Reports Electronics & Computers
Miniaturized Rad-Hard System Reduces Electronics Footprint
Electronics used for commercial satellite propulsion systems may soon become smaller and less expensive with the help of Missile Defense Agency (MDA)-funded research. The technology,...
Tech Transfer Reports
A Faster Plasma Limiter for Communication Network Defenses
A new technology created by a Missile Defense Agency (MDA)-funded company could prevent high-energy transmissions or electromagnetic pulses (EMP) from destroying communications...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
Keeping Pace With Military Radio and SDR Technology
There are two absolute truths about wireless military radios. The first is that wireless military radios must be accurate and reliable in mission-critical applications to guarantee the safety...
Application Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Measuring Radar Cross Section with Handheld VNAs
Radar cross section (RCS) is the measure of an object's ability to reflect radar signals in the direction of the radar receiver, i.e. it is the measure of the ratio of backscatter per steradian...
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High-Performance FPGAs
Altera Corporation’s (San Jose, CA) new 28-nm Stratix® V FPGAs are the semiconductor industry's first devices to feature 3.9 billion transistors, the most ever packed onto an integrated circuit. Stratix V FPGAs are the...
Products Electronics & Computers
Rugged COTS Military Computers
ADLINK Technology (San Jose, CA) has introduced a line of Extreme Rugged™ Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) military computers based on the Intel® Core™2 Duo and Atom™ N270 processors, the MilSystem™ 840...
Products Test & Measurement
16-Bit Data Acquisition Board
Pentek, Inc. (Upper Saddle River, NJ) has added the Model 71662 four-channel, 200 MHz, 16-bit data acquisition board with built-in digital down converters (DDCs) to its popular Cobalt® family of Xilinx Virtex-6...
Products Electronics & Computers
SUMIT-micro™ Expansion Modules
VersaLogic Corp. (Eugene, OR) has released two new expansion modules for use with SUMIT™-based products. The expansion modules feature the SUMIT (Stackable Unified Module Interconnect Technology) interface...
Products Electronics & Computers
X Capacitor Discharge ICs
Power Integrations (San Jose, CA) has launched CAPZero™, a family of two-terminal, automatic X capacitor discharge ICs that eliminate power losses while allowing power supplies to comply with safety standards....
Products Electronics & Computers
Desktop PCB Prototyping System
T-Tech Inc. (Norcross, GA) has introduced its latest PCB prototyping system — the Quick Circuit QCJ5. This state-of-the-art, in-house circuit board prototyping system is equipped with a host of features...
Products Electronics & Computers
Dot-Matrix Driver
Austriamicrosystems (Unterpremstaetten, Austria) has announced the AS1119 dot-matrix driver. The AS1119 2 drives 144 LEDs but requires only 9mm PCB space, reduces external component count, reduces connector pin count and...
Products Electronics & Computers
Onboard Test Control
JTAG Technologies (Eindhoven, Netherlands) has announced a new support package for board-level and system designers looking to implement a convenient BIT (Built-In Test) access for boundary-scan testing and onboard device...
Products Electronics & Computers
Agile Development Framework
LDRA (Wirral, UK) and Codice Software (Los Gatos, CA) have partnered to provide Plastic SCM's Agile development capability to Embed-X, an ALM product focused on the development and verification of critical, embedded...
Products Electronics & Computers
Voltage Regulator Online Design Tool
International Rectifier (IR®) (El Segundo, CA), has announced the availability of a new online design tool that enables electrical and thermal simulation and design optimization for the SupIRBuck™ family...
Products Electronics & Computers
3U Rugged Conduction-Cooled Enclosure
Dawn VME Products (Fremont, CA) has introduced the CCE-3VX4 VPX CUBE, a ruggedized 4 slot conduction cooled enclosure for VPX 3U modules. Dawn's CCE-3VX4 VPX CUBE is designed to MIL-STD-810F, DO-160E and...
Products Electronics & Computers
Machine Control Interface Module
Trio Motion Technology (Tewkesbury, UK) has added to its MC464 Motion Coordinator machine controller range with the launch of its new EtherCAT Master drive interface module. The new module provides tightly...
Products Electronics & Computers
Stand-Alone Real-Time Clock/Calendar
Microchip Technology (Chandler, AZ) recently announced its first stand-alone I2CTM Real-Time Clock/Calendar (RTCC) family. All six MCP794XX devices are highly integrated at a low cost, including ample...
Products Electronics & Computers
Security Software
Express Logic (San Diego, CA) recently announced the integration of the μSSL™ Security Stack from Cypherbridge® Systems. μSSL implements a standards-based solution to achieve chip-to-chip and chip-to-server...
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