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Streamlined Microcomb Design Provides Control With The Flip of a Switch
Researchers at the University of Rochester describe new microcomb lasers they have developed that overcome previous limitations and feature a simple design that could open the door to a broad range of uses. Read on to learn more.
Articles Information Technology
Benefits and Challenges of Direct-RF Sampling for Avionic Platforms
Recent advances in the operation of advanced CMOS processes for extremely high-speed and high dynamic range analog-to-digital (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) data converters has led to their use in directly sampling microwave and even millimeter wave signals.
Technology Report Photonics/Optics
Lumotive’s New LCM Underpins Next-Gen Lidar
“The future happened yesterday” is an appropriate description of the rapid pace of development in automated-driving technology. The expression may be most accurate in sensor tech where,...
Articles Communications
Solving Military Satellite, Radar and 5G Communications Challenges with GaN-on-SiC MMIC Power Amplifiers
Systems need to meet higher gain targets but not if it comes with any increases in cost and complexity, or size and weight.
Editorial Test & Measurement
Unreliable Electronics Are the New Prince of Darkness
Younger engineers may be unfamiliar with Joseph Lucas Ltd., the infamous Tier-1 supplier of British automotive electrical and electronic woes. Lucas helped institutionalize, fairly...
News Design
Real-Time Processors Key to the Zonal E/E Revolution
OEMs face major challenges with their vehicle architectures as they become more complex and unwieldy. They also want to speed up their innovation cycles while supporting intelligent...
Articles Unmanned Systems
Sensing Enters a New Era
More than 1.3 million people die on the world’s roadways each year and another 50 million are injured. While roadway safety has improved over time, all countries face formidable challenges in reducing the...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
FPGAs and HPC
A study determined the value of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for high-performance computing (HPC) applications.
Application Briefs Aerospace
Radiation-Hardened ICs
See how the integrated circuits supported a mission to examine asteroids.
Briefs Nanotechnology
Novel Whisker Mitigating Composite Conformal Coat Assessment
DoD electronics have an increased failure risk due to tin whisker short circuits, unless properly mitigated by design.
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Migrating Advanced Signal Processing Technology to Rugged SFF Platforms
By enabling distributed system architectures, SFF systems and subsystems solve many of the toughest problems facing embedded system designers.
News Unmanned Systems
Processing Capability TOPs-Out to Expand Vehicle Automation
Sensors are the vehicle’s eyes and ears, but their inputs must be analyzed, processed and acted upon. A hefty amount of computing power is needed to fuse complex data from...
Briefs Test & Measurement
Ka-Band Front-End Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMICs) and Transmit/Receive (T/R) Modules Testing
Gallium nitride monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) technology has superior performance in power amplifier applications.
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Sony Jumps into AV Sensors, Software
The growing prominence of sensor-based driving systems is creating opportunities for electronics companies to enter the auto industry. After years of speculation about Apple launching an electric...
News Energy
A Resonant Solution for Fast, Flexible EV Charging
The infrastructure of 400V charging stations has been massively expanded in Europe, with some 400 locations in place and more on the way. However, 800V vehicles currently are left out...
Articles Energy
Charge Control Methods for Supercapacitors
A comparison of passive and active supercapacitor charging methods emphasizes the need for a close inspection on power source and supercapacitor demand.
News Energy
Is GaN the Future for EV Chips?
Technology advances in electric vehicles (EV) are steadily shrinking the vehicle bill-of-materials cost while creating power efficiencies and new design solutions. The combination of more power-dense...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Radiation Effects on Electronics in Aligned Carbon Nanotube Technology (RadCNT)
The "RadCNT" program use carbon-based transistors to study the interactions between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.
News Sensors/Data Acquisition
Velodyne Preps for Volume Lidar
Prior to 2020 there were allegedly 80 to 100 “lidar companies” in the world, depending on who in Silicon Valley was compiling the list. Such was the over-inflated bubble of autonomous mobility prior...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Radiation-Tolerant FPGAs Solve Spacecraft Design Challenges
Learn about the different FPGA technologies that are available for space applications, and the process for developing the components.
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Cryogenic-Capable Isolators Improve the Performance of Millimeter-Wave Systems by Lowering Noise Levels
Find isolators that operate optimally under cryogenic conditions.
Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
A Focal Plane Array and Electronics Model for CMOS and CCD Sensors in the AFIT Sensor and Scene Emulation Tool
Developing an improved model capable of generating realistic synthetic data that represents a wide range of systems can lead to new algorithms and data exploitation techniques.
Articles Unmanned Systems
Shifting Design of Autonomous Architectures
The controls for fully autonomous trucks must deal with inputs from a number of sensors, analyzing this data and taking actions that enable the vehicle to complete its route safely and...
Articles Connectivity
Foretellix Building Precise Software Language for Validating Self-Driving Scenarios
The auto industry is under increasing pressure to prove that autonomous vehicles (AV) can be safe. But before AV manufacturers can begin to establish...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Future Advances in Electronic Materials and Processes - Flexible Hybrid Electronics
There are still significant obstacles to the manufacture and use of flexible hybrid electronics in military applications.
News Energy
Nano Dimension Creates the First Printed Circuit Boards with Side-Mounted Features
Nano Dimension Ltd., an additive electronics provider based in Ness Ziona, Israel, has developed the world’s first side-mounting technology for printed...
News Software
Daimler-Xilinx Linkup Spotlights Growing Use of FPGAs
The increasingly varied nature of data tied to safety systems and connected cars is altering electronic architectures, putting more emphasis on adaptability during design phases and...
Briefs Semiconductors & ICs
Integrated Magneto-Optical Devices for On-Chip Photonic Systems
The magneto-optical (MO) oxide layer consists of (Bi,Y)3Fe5O12 or BiYIG, bismuth garnet. This material was selected because it has a better...
Briefs Aerospace
Ultracompact, High-Speed Field-Effect Optical Modulators
The major goals of this research project included two parts. First, an ultracompact plasmonic electro-optical (EO) modulator was to be developed and investigated for efficient...
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