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Stand-Alone Real-Time Clock/Calendar
Microchip Technology (Chandler, AZ) recently announced its first stand-alone I2CTM Real-Time Clock/Calendar (RTCC) family. All six MCP794XX devices are highly integrated at a low cost, including ample...
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Machine Control Interface Module
Trio Motion Technology (Tewkesbury, UK) has added to its MC464 Motion Coordinator machine controller range with the launch of its new EtherCAT Master drive interface module. The new module provides tightly...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Analysis of Voltage and Current Signal Processing in a Li-ion Battery Management System
A Battery Management System (BMS) manages Li-ion batteries in a storage system for pulsed power weapons aboard Naval vessels. The system charges the...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Circuit-Switched Memory Access in Photonic Interconnection Networks for High-Performance Embedded Computing
High-performance embedded systems, such as those found in aerial surveillance platforms and handheld devices used by the military, are of key importance. These systems are characterized by stringent power budgets and the need for extremely...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Architectures for Cognitive Systems
A need exists for small, autonomic systems in the battlefield. Autonomy allows the creation of unmanned systems to perform complex, high-risk, and/or covert operations in the battlefield without the need for...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Testbed for Reconfigurable Network Security Research and Experimentation
A novel, reconfigurable network testbed has been developed, suitable for the implementation, testing, and analysis of new and existing network-based defenses against...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Using FPGAs to Improve x86 Processor I/O Flexibility
By offering the ability to update application functionality, provide a reconfigurable solution and enable easy design customization, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology has long...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Small Form Factor Computing in OpenVPX
The new OpenVPX™ (VITA 65) standard helps military system designers build compatible embedded systems by defining “profiles” to which vendors can adhere when designing boards, and system integrators...
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Stackable Computer Architecture Moves to 3rd Generation
Change is a concept that is well known in the computer industry. Designers and manufacturers alike have embraced this trend in an ongoing race to increase computing power while reducing...
Application Briefs Defense
Active Heat Sink Technology to Improve Thermal Performance of Military Systems
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has extended its contract with Thermacore to develop and commercialize active heat sinks that can be used with...
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14-Bit Analog-to-Digital Converter
The 14-bit ADS4149 from Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) is a high-speed analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that delivers low power consumption and performance across wide signal bandwidths from DC up to 550 MHz....
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Analog + Digital VGA
Maxim Integrated Products (Sunnyvale, CA) has introduced the MAX2062, a fully programmable, multistate, dual-channel, analog + digital IF/RF variable-gain amplifier (VGA). As with its predecessor, the single-channel...
Products RF & Microwave Electronics
RF-to-Digital μModule Receivers
Linear Technology (Milpitas, CA) has introduced the LTM9004 and LTM9005, two RF-to-digital μModule® receivers that integrate the key components for 3G and 4G base station receivers (WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, LTE, etc.)...
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LDMOS Power Transistor
Richardson Electronics (LaFox, IL) has announced the availability of Freescale Semiconductor’s MRFE6VP6300H/HS, the first 50V, 300W LDMOS power transistor that delivers its full rated gain and power even after...
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RF Test Set
ZTEC Instruments (Orlando, FL) has furthered its expansion into the RF Test Equipment market with the introduction of the ZT8101 RF Test Set. The ZT8101 Test Set is comprised of three unique PXI instruments, the ZT8441 RF/IF...
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Rad-Hard Synchronous Buck Regulators
Modular Devices, Inc. (Shirley, NY) has announced the availability of compact Proton Rad Hard 100K+™ high efficiency synchronous buck regulators. The Model 5080 delivers reliable onboard low voltage DC...
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One-Part High-Strength Epoxy
Master Bond’s (Hackensack, NJ) new Polymer Adhesive Supreme 10AOHT-LO is a single component, no mix, thermally conductive compound featuring superior electrical insulation and toughness. It meets NASA low...
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16-bit Sensor Signal Conditioner
ZMDI (Dresden, Germany) has introduced a new 16-bit sensor signal conditioning IC (SSC). Developed for resistive bridge sensors, the ZSSC3017 combines high accuracy amplification, 16-bit precision...
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Optical Ethernet Transceivers
Marvell (Santa Clara, CA) offers the Alaska® family of secure optical Ethernet transceivers for datacenters and carrier networks. The four products cover applications at 10G, 1G, and 100Mb Ethernet speeds. The...
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Flat Panel PC
WinSystems (Arlington, TX) has introduced the PPC3-G-6.5, a 6.5" open frame, color, flat panel PC based on a PC/104-Plus single board computer (SBC) that operates from -20°C to +70°C. It includes a resistive touch screen...
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PCIe XMC Module
Innovative Integration (Simi Valley, CA) has introduced the X6-RX, a flexible receiver that integrates IF digitizing with signal processing on an XMC IO module. The module provides up to 24 configurable receiver channels with a...
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Front I/O Industrial Computers
DuroPC (Blairsville, PA) has unveiled a new line of front I/O bracket industrial rackmount computers. RAC183, RAC184, RAC185 & RAC186 merges the best of the DuroPC line of Intel® Core™ and Pentium™...
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ARM Cortex-A8 Computer Board
The SBC1651, an ARM Cortex-A8 computer board from Micro/sys (Montrose, CA), features the Freescale Semiconductor i.MX515 CPU at its core and consumes minimal power while operating at 800 MHz. The onboard Stackable...
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SDRAM Multi-Chip Modules
Aeroflex Colorado Springs (Colorado Springs, CO) announced the addition of two SDRAM members to its Quantified Commercial off the Shelf (QCOTS) memory family: the 2.5G and 3.0Gbit SDRAM multi-chip-modules (MCM),...
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Chassis Mount Power Supplies
XP Power (Sunnyvale, CA) has announced the VCS series of chassis mount single output AC-DC power supplies aimed at cost sensitive industrial applications. The series comprises 50W, 70W and 100W models and are...
Articles Electronics & Computers
When the Going Gets Tough...
The theaters of operation for marine, air and land vehicles continue to redefine the term “rugged environment.” No longer bound by on-board human operators, autonomous and unmanned military vehicles are now free...
Articles Electronics & Computers
Redesigning COTS Servers for Military Applications
Military and ISR operations are inundated with vast amounts of data collected from an expanding network of sources, including sensor data from UAS, satellites, and remote monitoring stations....
Articles Electronics & Computers
Multicore Tools for Embedded Systems — Staying Ahead of the Game —
Building a multicore system means dealing with non-determinism. Interactions between tasks running on different cores can occur in a different order, and at a different rate...
Products Software
Bus Analyzer Plus Data Reconstruction
Data Device Corporation (DDC) (Bohemia, New York) has added data reconstruction and troubleshooting capabilities to its dataSIMS bus analyzer software. Reconstruction, or On-Line Replay, mode enables users...
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