New Products

October 1, 2023

Compact Controller 100

Available and ready to ship, WAGO’s (Germantown, WI) Compact Controller 100 remains a small-scale PLC with a wide variety of built-in I/O for use in smaller applications. While the PLC can still interface with industrial devices using protocols such as MODBUS TCP/UDP, EtherNet/IP or EtherCAT using the two on board EtherNet ports; it now includes communication protocols such as BACnet, OPC/UA and DNP3 for the utility sector. By programming the Compact Controller 100 using Codesys 3.5, it allows users to code in one or more of the IEC 61131-3 compatible languages as well as utilize the controller’s built-in Web Server to develop HTML 5 visualizations.

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Copper Bandpass Filters for Quantum Computing

RLC Electronics, Inc. (Mt. Kisco, NY) has successfully built and delivered gold plated OFHC copper bandpass filters for quantum computing applications (Copper has the best electrical conductivity of any metal, except Silver). This filter is a C-band filter centered at 5350 MHz. Despite the 11-sections response, insertion loss at the band edges is 0.27dB and 0.35dB. The filter achieves >100dB attenuation carrying up to 15 GHz (min) spurious free and handles 50W cW.

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Compact CPU Module

WINSYSTEMS (Grand Prairie, TX) debuted the latest entry in its computer-on-module product line: the COMeT6-1100 COM Express^® Type 6 Compact CPU module. Leveraging the 11th Gen Intel^® Core^™ i3/i5/i7 processors for industrial, IoT and embedded systems, this module offers up to four cores of high-performance processing in a low-power platform. And, with RAM soldered down, it ably handles applications running in environments subject to shock, vibration and extended temperatures. The COMeT6-1100 module is purposely designed for superb performance and availability within rugged industrial IoT environments. It remains consistently reliable in operating temperatures spanning -40 °C to +85 °C and is CE compliant.

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Form Factor Equivalent Devices

ProGrAnalog (Portland, OR), the home of LoadSlammer custom and off the shelf power delivery test tools, announced the launch of a new family of Form Factor Equivalent Devices (FFED) that were developed to quickly evaluate, characterize and validate power delivery schemes for AMD Versal™ AI Core Series and Versal™ Premium AIE devices. There is a growing trend of higher supply currents for state-of-the-art SoCs with lower voltages, higher current load steps and tighter voltage regulation requirements. This poses a significant design challenge to ensure that power delivery to the SoC is optimized so that the voltage regulators can meet stringent demands.

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Space Qualified DC-DC Converters

VPT Inc. (Blacksburg, VA) announced the availability of its SVLFL5000 Series of space-qualified DC-DC converters. Characterized by Total Ionizing Dose (TID) performance, including Enhanced Low Dose Rate Sensitivity (ELDRS), to 60 krad, the series is operable over the full military temperature range (-55 °C to +125 °C) with no power derating, and is suited for use in low Earth orbit (LEO), medium Earth orbit (MEO), geostationary orbit (GEO), deep space missions, and launch vehicle programs.

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Hermetically Sealed RF Connectors

Pasternack (Irvine, CA) has announced a new series of hermetically sealed RF connectors and adapters designed to meet the stringent requirements of military and defense applications. The hermetically sealed terminal connectors and bulkhead-mount adapters in the series are developed with a variety of BNC, Type N, TNC, SMA, 2.92 mm and 2.4 mm options. This provides users with a vast range of options tailored to various specifications and needs.

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PXI/PXIe Microwave Switching Family

Pickering Interfaces (Chelmsford, MA) announced its new 40/42-890 family of modular, flexible PXI/PXIe microwave switches, bringing highly configurable RF switching solutions up to 110GHz to the PXI platform. Ideal for test environments requiring high-frequency microwave switching, from radar, satellite, and short-range land-based secure communications to consumer electronics and 5G infrastructure, the new 40/42-890 microwave switch family provides highly configurable RF switching solutions up to 110GHz via the PXI platform, delivering flexibility, versatility, and test system optimization. A full range of SPDT, SPnT, and transfer switch types are offered in PXI/PXIe, with terminated or unter-minated ports at frequencies up to 110GHz – with options available in 50Ω or 75Ω impedance.

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SN 3100 XP Server Node

Sealing Technologies, Inc. (Columbia, MD) has introduced its latest product: the SN 3100 XP server node. This state-of-the-art node is designed with modularity in mind, allowing for flexible configurations to accommodate varying size, weight, and compute power (SWaP) requirements of end users. With a strong focus on cybersecurity and its role as a data analysis and network sensor, the SN 3100 XP sets a new standard in portable edge computing. This node can accommodate up to 3× SATA solid-state drives, multiple NVMes and Half Height PCIE and GPU card configurations.

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MMICs

Fabless mmWave semiconductor startup mmTron Inc. (Redwood City, CA) announced a family of MMICs for driving high-speed analog-to-digital (A/D) converters. The TMC161 family converts a single-ended RF input to a differential output to drive A/D converters for direct-sampling applications from L/S/C- into Ku- and Ka-Band. The TMC161 provides low noise, high linearity (low IMD2 and IMD3 distortion) amplification and anti-alias filtering.

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Common Module System X08

Mercury Systems, Inc. (Andover, MA) introduced the Common Module System (CMS) X08, the industry’s first rugged, open standards-based blade server architecture to deliver a plug-n-play infrastructure model for tactical platforms operating at sea, on land, or in the air. Mercury’s solution is built around the Open Compute Project (OCP®) openEDGE standard and allows customers to eliminate vendor lock-in, simplify technology upgrades, reduce costs, and accelerate workloads.

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3U VPX Plug-In Card

Kontron (San Diego, CA), a leading global provider of IoT/Embedded Computing Technology (ECT), announced the VX307H, a 3U VPX Plug-In card for high performance embedded computing applications in harsh environments. Designed to SOSA™ profile specifications it is the ideal building block for boosting the compute and data transmission performance of mission systems used in defense, avionics and transportation. Based on powerful energy efficient Intel® Xeon® D-2700 processors series with availability in 12, 16- and 20-core versions, the VX370H is up to 2.97× faster than the previous product generation and easily adapted to size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-C) blade applications.

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CHAMP-FX7 Real Time Processing Module

Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions (Ashburn, VA) division introduced the CHAMP-FX7 (VPX6-476), its highest performance user programmable real-time processing module. Ideal for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) system architectures, the CHAMP-FX7 is designed to ingest extremely large quantities of digital sensor data over optical fibers for wide bandwidth, latency-sensitive parallel signal processing applications. With unprecedented amounts of on-board fast fiber optic and backplane connectivity, the module takes user programmability and functionality to the next level.

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Bias Tees

Fairview Microwave (Irvine, CA) has just unveiled its latest innovation, ultra-wideband bias tees, enhancing the fluid application of DC and RF signals in electronic devices. The bias tees, available immediately, establish the DC bias point of electronic components without interfering with their performance. They command a sweeping frequency range from 50 kHz to a massive 110 GHz, accommodating a broad spectrum of applications to meet customers’ diverse needs. A testament to Fairview Microwave’s commitment to flexibility, the bias tees accommodate both male and female W1 RF connector configurations, as well as an SMC male DC connector.

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GNSS Receiver

The new STMicroelectronics (Geneva, Switzerland) Teseo-LIV4F GNSS module leverages ST’s Teseo IV single-die receiver technology, including L1 and L5 frequency-band support, to provide positioning accuracy better than one meter in embedded geolocation systems. With an ultra-compact form factor and low power consumption, Teseo-LIV4F also extends multi-constellation compatibility to include navigation with the Indian constellation (NavIC or IRNSS, the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System). The modules come with Teseo-LIV4FSW firmware, allowing users to leverage the Teseo Suite PC-based application for free firmware configuration and updating.

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3U VPX Single Board Computer

Aitech Systems (Chatsworth, CA) has announced that its SOSA aligned U-C8500 3U VPX SBC has successfully passed environmental qualification testing. Aligned with The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Technical Standard, Aitech’s U-C8500 is based on Intel’s ground-breaking SWaP-C optimized Tiger Lake UP3(TGL-UP3) SoC, which combines a high-performing CPU with a strong internal GPU and an advanced image processing unit. The SBC also incorporates highly integrated memory technology (LPDDR4X) for better graphics processing performance as well as high-speed PCIe Gen4 and 10 Gbps Ethernet.

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PCIe 6.0 Protocol Analysis Testing Platform

VIAVI Solutions (Chandler, AZ) announced its new 6.0 Protocol Analysis Testing Platform at the Flash Memory Summit (FMS) Conference and Exhibition. PCI Express® is a high-speed computer expansion bus standard that enables emerging applications in data center/hyperscale, cloud, AI/ML, quantum computing, IoT, automotive and defense industry markets. Operating at 64 GT/s data rates, PCIe 6.0 doubles the bandwidth and throughput of the previous PCIe 5.0 specification. The new VIAVI PCIe 6.0 protocol analysis testing platform, part of the VIAVI Xgig® family, will include analyzers, exercisers, and interposers.

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