New Products

August 1, 2024

Rugged AI Laptop

Durabook (Fremont, CA) announced a major upgrade of its popular Z14I laptop that makes it the world’s most durable and reliable fully rugged artificial intelligence (AI) PC designed specifically to support demanding AI applications in the field. The Durabook Z14I now features Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 and 7 processors with Intel vPro®, an integrated neural processing unit (NPU), and optional NVIDIA RTX™ A500 professional GPU, making it ideal for architecture, engineering, public safety, military, construction, and other professions that increasingly use AI tools in the field.

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V6065 3U VPX Module

New Wave Design’s (Eden, MN) V6065 is a next-generation heterogeneous embedded computing 3U VPX module featuring the AMD® Versal® Premium Adaptive System-on-Chip (ASoC), rugged optical and electrical high-speed IO, XMC site, and SOSA aligned profile options. The V6065 provides options for Versal® Premium VP1502 or VP1702 part selection. In a single 3U VPX card, the V6065 provides three 100G optical interfaces (300G aggregate), large FPGA fabric, ARM processor cores, and XMC site.

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Dual Radiometric Thermal Camera Modules

Teledyne FLIR (Goleta, CA) released its next generation of high-performance Hadron 640 dual radiometric thermal and visible camera modules. The ITAR-free Hadron 640+ and radiometric Hadron 640R+ provide industry-leading thermal sensitivity. All models are size, weight, and power (SWaP) optimized for integration into unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), unmanned ground vehicles (UGV), robotic platforms, and emerging AI applications utilizing Teledyne FLIR Prism™ software.

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Microwave Mux Modules

Pickering Interface’s (Clacton-on-Sea, UK) new high channel count microwave MUX family (models 40/42-788) is based on superior-quality Radiall mechanical microwave switches, with bandwidth options from 8 GHz to 40 GHz, and versatile switching configurations, including single or dual SP8T, SP10T or SP12T multiplexers. As well as microwave switching applications, the modules also suit many uses across the RF spectrum where extremely low insertion loss and ultra-high isolation are critical. “These modules give you the highest RF and microwave switching performance available within a Pickering switching system,” noted Switching Product Manager at Pickering, Steve Edwards.

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Mini Cube Test Chassis

Pixus Technologies (Waterloo, Ontario) has released their most compact test/development chassis dubbed the Mini Cube. The chassis is used for prototyping of 3U OpenVPX & SOSA aligned systems. The Mini Cube supports 5x VPX/SOSA aligned slots with a VITA 62 PSU or 4x slots with an internal low-cost 600W Pixus modular power supply with universal AC input. Backplanes in various speeds and SOSA aligned slot profiles are available as well as power and ground only format options. Card guides are interchangeable for air-cooled or conduction-cooled boards.

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Sentry X2 Mil-Rugged System

Connect Tech Inc. (Guelph, Ontario) releases the Sentry-X2, an IP67, MIL-Rugged system powered by the NVIDIA® Jetson AGX Orin™ Industrial. An Elite NVIDIA hardware partner, Connect Tech extends its diverse portfolio of rugged edge devices with the new Sentry-X2 offering, designed for mission-critical applications in harsh environments. The Sentry-X2 is a MIL-SPEC-certified AI system engineered for computing at the tactical edge. Key features of the Sentry-X2 include IP67, 38999 circular connectors, 8 GMSL2 camera inputs, multiple Ethernet ports: 10Gb, 2.5Gb, and 1Gb options 2x USB 3.2, 4TB NVMe, WiFi/BT (optional), and a wide array of I/O options.

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Radiation Tolerant Power Converters

The Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) market is rapidly growing as private and public entities alike explore the new space region for everything from 5G communication and cube satellites to IoT applications. There is an increased demand for standard space grade solutions that are reliable, cost effective and configurable. To meet this market need, Microchip Technology (Chandler, AZ) today announces a new family of Radiation-Tolerant (RT) LE50-28 isolated DC-DC 50W power converters available in nine variants with single- and triple-outputs ranging from 3.3V to 28V.

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Advanced Servo Actuators

Ultra Motion’s (Cutchogue, NY) suite of servo actuators provides environmentally hardened, reliable, and power-dense actuation options that meet the demands of the defense industry. All of our servo actuators utilize our patented Phase Index® absolute position feedback and include built-in brushless DC control electronics. Communication protocols like RS-485 and CAN 2.0B allow for complete control over the actuator while enabling detailed telemetry for health monitoring and preventative maintenance.

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Low-Side Gate Driver

Littelfuse Inc. (Chicago, IL) announced the launch of the IX4352NE Low-side SiC MOSFET and IGBT Gate Driver. This innovative driver is specifically designed to drive Silicon Carbide (SiC) MOSFETs and high-power Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBTs) in industrial applications. The key differentiator of the IX4352NE lies in its separate 9 A source and sink outputs, which enable tailored turn-on and turn-off timing while minimizing switching losses. An internal negative charge regulator also provides a user-selectable negative gate drive bias for improved dV/dt immunity and faster turn-off.

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Five Bay Connector Shell

TE Connectivity (Harrisburg, PA) has introduced a new five-bay connector shell configuration for its MiniMRP (Mini Modular Rack Principle) Avionics and Electronics Packaging product family. The modular avionics architecture, based on ARINC 836A standards, enables an estimation of up to 40 percent space savings and up to 60 percent weight reduction compared to traditional avionics systems, providing increased computing power in smaller, lighter packages.

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