New Products

June 1, 2023

Ultrasonic Knife Cutting

OPEN MIND Technologies (Needham, MA) has introduced its new ultrasonic knife cutting strategy via its hyperMILL®CAM software. Ultrasonic knife cutting represents an ideal solution for the efficient cutting of advanced materials including honeycomb structures, composites, and foams often found in aerospace, automotive and wind turbine applications. Using a single interface, users can benefit from the comprehensive programming capabilities of the hyperMILL®-CAD/CAM software suite ranging from 2.5D machining to 5-axis milling, as well as easily program ultrasonic cutting with oscillating cutting blades.

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Micro-Coaxial Cable

Times Microwave Systems (Wallingford, CT) introduces its new TF-047 micro-coaxial cable, offering high performance and reliability in a compact footprint. TF-047 is a SwaP-C solution with extensive connector capability for easy routing in space-constrained areas, with an overall diameter of 0.055 in./1.40 mm and can support bends as tight as of 0.20 in./5.08 mm. TF-047 is optimized to perform from DC to 50 GHz. The new, lightweight TF-047 micro-coaxial cable (maximum weight of 3.77 lbs./1.71 kg per 1,000 feet) is available with a variety of push-on and threaded connectors.

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Broadband Capacitors

Passive Plus (PPI) (Huntington, NY) has expanded its Broadband Capacitor line to include the industry’s smallest broadband part characterized for RF performance. The 01005BB104 series has been expanded and a new part is now offered with a 10V Rating. Typical applications for the expanded capacitor product line includes optoelectronics / high-speed data, transmit / receive optical subassemblies, broadband test equipment, broadband microwave and millimeter wave amplifiers and oscillators.

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Metals Calculator and Conversion App

Ulbrich Stainless Steels & Special Metals (North Haven, CT) has launched its second mobile app — a metals calculator and conversion app with essential tools for engineers, purchasers, and other manufacturing personnel. Designed to help manufacturers work more efficiently, the easy-to-use app contains length and weight calculators for over 200 alloys and 17 different converters of more than 100 common units for wire gauge, temperature, pressure, thermal expansion, and more. The app even contains cooking units and 173 monetary currencies for non-manufacturing conversions. Convert AWG to in, mm, cm, and back! Turn Celsius to Fahrenheit and much more!

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Q8RF Embedded Computer

Xiphos Systems Corporation (Montreal, Quebec) and Epiq Solutions have introduced the Xiphos Q8RF, a next-generation radiation tolerant embedded computer based on the Xilinx Zynq® UltraScale+™ ZU28DR RFSoC. The Q8RF is targeted for small satellite applications where advanced wide bandwidth processing is required while minimizing size and power consumption. The Q8RF combines a Linux computer, reprogrammable logic, multi-gigasample/sec data converters, a daughterboard expansion interface, and proven radiation effects mitigation to enable small satellites to advance their SDR mission capability.

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COTS Card

Annapolis Micro Systems (Annapolis, MD) is now shipping the industry’s first COTS Card to feature Jariet Technologies’ Electra-MA chip with 64 GS/s, 10-bit ADC and DAC capability. The SOSA™-aligned WILD FMC+ DME1 Card is targeted at demanding applications requiring direct sampling frequency coverage anywhere from 0.1 to 36 GHz (VHF through Ka-band), and/or wide instantaneous bandwidths. The breakthrough direct sampling Jariet transceiver performs frequency conversion and filtering in the digital domain, eliminating the need for costly analog frequency conversion.

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TI Processors

Congatec (San Diego, CA) is expanding its strategic solutions portfolio in the Arm processor sector to include Texas Instruments (TI) processors. The first solution platform is the conga-STDA4, a SMARC Computer-on-Module featuring the industrial-grade Arm® Cortex®-based TDA4VM processor. Using a system-on-chip architecture, TI incorporates accelerated vision and AI processing, real-time control, and functional safety capabilities into their TDA4VM processor. This Dual Arm Cortex-A72-based module is designed for industrial mobile machinery requiring near-field analytics, such as automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots, construction and agricultural machinery.

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ORC5000 ASIC

Orca Systems (San Diego, CA) has introduced a highly integrated ASIC platform that significantly improves system performance and reduces power consumption for power-sensitive space, terrestrial, industrial and edge computing applications. Orca’s new ORC5000 ASIC platform has been applied to develop Orca’s first ASIC product, the ORC5990, designed for use in low-Earth orbit (LEO) IoT satellite payload and terrestrial IoT gateway designs. The company’s custom ASIC design, modem expertise and integration capabilities offer 10x performance enhancements over conventional FPGA-based system design with only a fraction of the power consumption.

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Single-Port USB-C Power

Infineon (Munich, Germany) has introduced its integrated single-port USB-C Power Delivery (PD) solution with integrated buck-boost controllers, EZ-PD™ PMG1-B1. While complying to the latest USB-C and PD specifications, EZ-PD™ PMG1-B1 has an integrated gate driver for VBUS NFET on the consumer path for sink application. It also includes hardware-controlled protection features on the VBUS. EZ-PD™ PMG1-B1 supports a wide input voltage range (4 to 24V with 40V tolerance) and programmable switching frequency (150 to 600 kHz) in an integrated PD solution.

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Spring Pin Socket for WLCSP

Ironwood Electronics (Minneapolis, MN) has introduced its new spring pin socket with 2.5-watt heat dissipation through heat sink and fan. The new socket features low force 14g per contact spring pin along with high bandwidth 31.7 GHz for high-speed applications. The clamshell lid with compression heatsink screw allows gradual pressure to WLCSP.

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Rad Tolerant Memory Card

Aitech (Chatsworth, CA) has released the S993, a radiation-tolerant 3U CompactPCI memory card that provides up to 1 TB of on-board storage Space NAND flash with all 8 NAND modules installed for a variety of space applications. Both versatile and performance, the new memory board provides high-capacity, non-volatile Flash memory for reliable data storage in both in-orbit spaceflight and downlink communications to earth-bound base stations. The space-rated memory card includes built-in hardware error detection and correction (EDAC) to correct single-bit errors and detect double-bit errors as well as offers a low single event upset (SEU)-rate and high latch up immunity. The new S993 also includes a Flash Translation Layer (FTL) to handle writes and wear leveling, bad block management and garbage collection, offloading this function from the host processors.

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Miniature Data Acquisition and Encoding

Curtiss Wright Defense Solutions (Ashburn, VA) has introduced their next generation miniature network data acquisition (MnACQ) encoding product, the MnACQ-2700. The new MnACQ-2700 enables an Ethernet-based network data acquisition solution for analog and bus data capture and system safety monitoring applications. With two Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports that support both 100Base-T and 1000Base-T, the product provides total data (a.k.a. bulk data) and selected data to an FTI network for demanding applications such as new aircraft development and technology refresh programs. The MnACQ-2700 also provides Pulse-code modulation (PCM) outputs up to 40 Mbps for real-time telemetry of mission and safety critical data. The product is configurable using IRIG-106 metadata description language (MDL) and by Curtiss-Wright’s TTCWare software utility.

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Microchip Technology (Chandler, AZ) has introduced its new MPLAB® SiC Power Simulator that quickly evaluates Microchip’s SiC power devices and modules across various topologies before committing a design to hardware. The MPLAB SiC Power Simulator is a PLECS-based software environment designed in collaboration with Plexim to provide an online complimentary tool that eliminates the need to purchase a simulation license. The MPLAB SiC Power Simulator accelerates the design process of various SiC-based power topologies. The tool can speed up time to market by delivering a comprehensive SiC evaluation that not only provides valuable benchmarking data but also reduces component selection times. A power electronics designer deciding between a 25 mΩ and 40 mΩ SiC MOSFET for a three-phase active front end converter can get immediate simulation results, such as average power dissipation and peak junction temperature of the devices.

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RF Power Dividers and Couplers

Fairview Microwave (Lewisville, TX) released a new offering of RF power dividers and RF couplers with a variety of configuration options and greater operating frequency ranges. The RF power dividers and RF couplers in Fairview’s portfolio provide greater power and more expansive coverage than ever before, with maximum power ratings up to 30 watts and operating frequencies ranging up to 70 GHz. The new offering touts a variety of connectorized options, including SMA, N-type, 1.85 mm, 2.4 mm and 2.92 mm connectors as well as three-way, four-way and eight-way configurations. The RF couplers’ ability to sample signals either forward or in reverse makes them ideal for a variety of applications, including test and measurement, feedback, monitoring and control.

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Cat8 Ethernet Cable

W. L. Gore & Associates (Newark, DE) announced its new Cat8 ethernet cable for use in aerospace and defense platforms. The new Cat8 ethernet cable allows for four times the high-speed data transmission previously possible. The new Cat8 cable is designed with durable materials and complies with stringent industry standards for aircraft and defense vehicles operating in extreme environments. “It’s a major future-proof upgrade for all of our aerospace and defense customers,” said Jeremy Moore, Product Manager with Gore. “The new Cat8 ethernet cables offer four times the speed in a single cable, while reducing weight and providing a better solution for space constraints since you need fewer cables for the same speeds.”

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