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Cooling Your Embedded System: What Can Your Open Standard Architecture Handle?
Embedded computing systems for Mil/Aero applications are often conduction-cooled in an ATR or nonstandard chassis. However, there are many designs that require 19"...
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Evaluating Key Certification Aspects of Multicore Platforms for Safety Critical Avionics Applications
High performance, low power consumption and small footprint requirements imposed by the embedded market on the processor industry is causing a...
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The Ins and Outs of Spaceflight Passive Components and Assemblies
RF and microwave components deployed in spaceflight applications can experience hundreds of degrees of temperature variation, massive amounts of radiation, and can be expected to...
Articles Test & Measurement
Simulating and Analyzing Flow for an Air-to-Air Refueling System
Long-range bombers may have missions halfway around the world. Fighter jets may have to stay in the air longer than their relatively small fuel tanks will allow, or may find they...
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SAE WCX17 Preview
On the centennial of the Society of Automotive Engineers’ first “Annual Meeting” in 1917, the organization is evolving the mobility sector’s all-encompassing collaborative gathering—long known as World...
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CES 2017: Car as Close Companion
Let’s face it. For you (and everybody else), it’s all about you, you—and by the way, you. You know, me, the big "I."
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NAIAS 2017: Stinger Gives Kia a Fast, Nimble Sedan
Kia’s racy GT concept sports sedan shown at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show becomes production reality with the 2018 Stinger.
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CES 2017: Your Car Is Talking to the Refrigerator
Vehicles are becoming more closely linked to consumer electronics as infotainment systems offer more options and automated driving technologies bring the promise of more free time during...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
CES 2017: Schaeffler Surprises CES with 'Bio-Hybrid' Minicar for Urban Use
By 2050, urban populations worldwide will have risen by 2.5 billion, according to the United Nations. But “infrastructure expansion is not keeping pace with...
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CES 2017: Faraday Future Shows Its First Vehicle—the FF 91
After teasing the media and consumers with a racecar concept at the 2016 CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, and then with a series of detailed close-up images and...
Articles Electronics & Computers
CES 2017: Automotive Suppliers Eclipsing OEMs in Advanced Tech
Development of advanced mobility technologies is increasingly being driven by suppliers, rather than OEMs. And megadeals worth at least $500 million that are behind a growing...
Product Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
High-Pressure Spiral Hose
The EC600 X-FLEX high-pressure spiral hose from Eaton (Eden Prairie, MN) is designed for demanding applications that require very high-pressure performance in small areas, including construction, mining and industrial equipment. At 50% of the SAE 100R15 bend radius, the hose’s flexibility makes installation in tight...
Articles Regulations/Standards
PACCAR's Sproull Primed for SAE Commercial Vehicle Post
From his early days as a mechanical engineering student at the University of Evansville to today serving as a vice president at PACCAR, SAE International involvement has been a...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Cat Explores Drones Inside Factories
At a recent year-end press briefing, Caterpillar not only detailed new iron but also some of its “digital” activities, such as augmented reality in the cab and drones at the worksite. Caterpillar has...
Articles RF & Microwave Electronics
Sea Machines Demonstrates Self-Driving Boats and Ships
Sea Machines Robotics is developing autonomous technologies that it believes will revolutionize the marine sector, enabling smarter, safer and more efficient operations via self-aware and self-driving boats and ships.
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Magna’s CTO Talks Innovation and Disruption
Swamy Kotagiri, Magna International’s Chief Technology Officer, will discuss how to foster an innovative organizational culture during a Leadership Summit roundtable, April 4 at the SAE WCX17...
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Focus for 2017: Cyber, Connected-Car, EV Charging, Vehicle Autonomy
Our new section, SAE Standards News, aims to update readers on the extensive activity in the SAE Global Ground Vehicle Standards development arena, by more than 800 ground...
Articles Energy
Powering Outer Space: An In-Depth Look at Aerospace Battery Technology
With space’s extreme environments, there is never a one-size-fits-all battery. Nor is any space mission ever the same, so customized batteries for each operation are...
Articles Communications
Using High Bandwidth Oscilloscopes to Analyze Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems
Whether for multi-channel analysis, or for wider analysis bandwidth in a measurement, high bandwidth oscilloscopes offer an alternative to traditional spectrum...
Articles Defense
Bio-inspired Airborne Infrastructure Reconfiguration (BioAIR)
Conventionally, most autonomous mobile nodes, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are operated remotely by human operators. As such, forming a mobile communication network to...
Articles Aerospace
Additive Manufacturing: How 3D Printing Will Transform the A&D Support Chain
3D printing, or additive manufacturing (AM), is quickly becoming a 'must have' for aerospace and defense (A&D) manufacturers rather than just a luxury R&D...
Articles Defense
Advances in Lightweight Electronics Protection
Lightweighting continues to be a key topic for the aerospace, avionics and defense industries as new metals and composites are being integrated into end products and assemblies with the goal of...
Articles Defense
EMI Analysis Software Helps Telescope Group Simulate RFI Mitigation
Challenging Einstein’s seminal theory of relativity to the limits, how the very first stars and galaxies formed just after the Big Bang, the study of dark energy and the vast...
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Delphi Showcasing Next-Gen Autonomous System at CES 2017
Delphi will use CES 2017 to demonstrate an advanced new automated-driving technology platform the company plans to make available to automakers by 2019 as a complete system to enable...
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HMI Development: More Features, less System Complexity
Human machine interfaces are changing rapidly as radio head units handle more functions and connect to diverse systems inside and outside the vehicle. HMI systems are being...
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Connectivity Advances Dominate at CES 2017
If there’s any doubt that connectivity is the next wave for advanced features and functions, it should dissipate after CES 2017. A multitude of advances in over the air updates and security will...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Quiet Your Inner Cab
Off-highway cabs are never going to be sanctuaries of silence, but they’re getting closer. Elements as diverse as glass, electronics and push buttons are being selected in part for their benefits in reducing sound levels.
Articles Energy
McLaren Faces the Electrified and Autonomous Future
Pressing the engine start button of a McLaren ignites a cacophony of sound that signals its place in the vanguard of ultra-high performance supercars.
Articles Test & Measurement
Bob Lutz: What Makes a Great Engineer?
Throughout the 2016 documentary film Live Another Day about the fall and rise of the Detroit-3 automakers, former GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz shows the insight and enthusiasm that made him one of the...
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Quiet, Please: NVH Improvement Opportunities in the Early Design Cycle
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Advantages of Smart Power Distribution Unit Design for Automotive &...
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Sesame Solar's Nanogrid Tech Promises Major Gains in Drone Endurance