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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...
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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....
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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...
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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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Ruggedized XMC Module
Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) (Middleton, WI) has released the XPort9100, a ruggedized conduction-cooled XMC module that supports eight +28V general purpose input/output (GPIO) channels commonly used to control...
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Mezzanine Connector
Tyco Electronics (TE) (Harrisburg, PA) has released the mezzanine Mezalok connector. At 5 GHz+, the surface mount device incorporates a super-redundant “mini-box” four-point contact system for separable interface use....
Products Energy
Power Generation System
Kollmorgen (Radford, VA) introduces the Power Generation System, a 28 VDC system that generates up to 30kW of power. Consisting of a permanent magnet AC generator, generator controller, software, and cables, the system...
Products Motion Control
Brushless PM Ring Motor
ThinGap (Ventura, CA) has released its 14050 14-inch Ring Motor series, which offer up to 60kW. The design produces no rotor-to-stator magnetic forces, cogging, eddy current losses, or hysteresis. Magnets and a 13-4 PH...
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FGPA Starterkit
The Kontron COM Express™ FPGA Starterkit from Kontron (Poway, CA) provides the necessary components to evaluate board designs with open-definable I/Os. OEMs can use the starterkit to develop dedicated full-custom SBC designs...
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Coded Switch
Elma Electronic (Fremont, CA) offers a rugged version of its Type 07 line of coded switches. The M07A gray coded switch comes in 16 positions down to 2, and has a robust stainless-steel 6mm or 3mm tapped shaft. The switch meets...
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Dense Transducer Array
A dense transducer array is an acoustic transducer with relatively high operational bandwidth. It includes a cable harness component that provides and organizes various conductors within piezocomposite substrates to form transducer arrays with minimum impact on electroacoustic performance. Several underwater sonar...
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Two-Phase Electronics Cooling for Vehicle Applications
Replacing many of the traditional mechanical power and control systems with electronic equivalents will enable significant improvements by reducing weight, lowering fuel usage, increasing...
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Development and Test of a Medium-Voltage Converter for Ocean Observatories
A critical component in regional-scale undersea power systems is the medium-voltage converter (MVC). The MVC is a DC-DC converter in the primary network infrastructure...
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Compact Superconducting Power Systems for Airborne Applications
In the development of future airborne megawatt-class power generation, it is important to minimize both the size and the weight of the system. The primary means of increasing the...
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Airbrush-Fabricated Carbon Nanotube Supercapacitor Electrodes
In order for the batteries used by soldiers to provide peak power, an increase in battery size and weight is necessary, which is becoming a burden. A light, compact alternative to...
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USB Avionics Databus Interface
Ballard Technology (Everett, WA) has announced that its line of pocket-sized USB Avionics Databus Interfaces are now available with an optional orange case. The high-visibility flight test orange case allows the...
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Finite-Element Simulations of Field and Current Distributions in Multifilament Superconducting Films
The separation of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tapes in filaments is a viable approach to reduce AC losses in HTS high-power...
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MEMS Resettable Circuit Breaker and Switch for DC-DC Voltage Converters
Resettable circuit breaker cantilevers use silicon dioxide (SiO2) for temper ature compensation. The compressive stress in the SiO2 causes the cantilever to bow upwards 400...
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Ultra-Low-Power Radios for Ad-Hoc Sensing Networks
Anew method has been developed for the design of a miniature, low-power, low-cost radio node capable of self-organization and communication within an ad-hoc network. The integrated radio transceiver, combined with a backend processor in a single networkable node, offers unique network scalability...
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Differential Amplifier Circuits Based on Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors (CNTFETs)
Since their discovery, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been extensively studied for their great potential in a variety of applications. Several desirable properties that CNTs possess include a high thermal conductivity, high electrical mobility, high electrical...
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Magnetic Random Access Memory Integrated Passive Components
An embedded magnetic memory technology was developed to be integrated into a Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) circuit fabrication process to provide radiation-hard logic...
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Self-Aware Computing
This project performed an initial exploration of a new concept for computer system design called Self-Aware Computing. A self-aware computer leverages a variety of hardware and software techniques to automatically adapt and...
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Channel Field Effect Transistors
Narrow bandgap semiconductors offer high carrier mobilities and low contact resistances, while wide bandgap semiconductors offer high breakdown voltages. A series of heterojunction transistors has been investigated and proved to be effective for improving both speed and power output. These devices include double...
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Procedure to Determine and Correct for Transmission Line Resistances for Direct-Current, On-Wafer Measurements
Resistances of tenths of ohms to several ohms in transmission lines have been measured in laboratory systems from the power supply to...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Analysis of Clustering Tools for Moving Target Indication
Current and future forces operating in urban environments need the capability to detect slow-moving personnel inside buildings. To accomplish this, a time-domain approach was developed that uses a low-frequency, ultra-wideband (UWB) radar with a transmit pulse capable of penetrating through...
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Reflected Signal Analysis
Forensic characterization of a wireless device is useful in many applications. An example of this is in the testing of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Part 15 devices that must adhere to strict guidelines with...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
A Bistable Microelectronic Circuit for Sensing an Extremely Low Electric Field
Bistable systems are prevalently found in many sensor systems. It is well established that a well-designed coupling scheme, together with an appropriate choice of initial conditions, can induce oscillations (i.e. periodic switching between stable fixed points) in...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Asymmetric Core Computing for High-Performance Applications
High-performance computing (HPC) users have traditionally relied upon two things to supply them with processing power: speed of the central processing units (CPUs) and the scalability of the system. There are problems with this approach. Physical limitations are curtailing clock speed...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Simulation Concept Exploits Tools for Computing Hybrids
The Simulation Concept – How to Exploit Tools for Computing Hybrids (SCHETCH) project is exploring the design modeling and simulation (M&S) process for developing advanced computing...
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