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DC-DC Converters
VPT (Blacksburg, VA) has introduced the VPT100+ 2800 Series DCDC converter modules that offer up to 100W of output power per unit and parallel operation of up to five units. They are available in single output versions of 3.3V,...
Products Electronics & Computers
Hermetically Sealed Circuit Boards
Douglas Electrical Components (Randolph, NJ) hermetically seals circuit boards, including flex, rigid, and hybrid circuits for high-volume applications with space or weight constraints such as military and...
Products Electronics & Computers
Power Film Resistors
The MPM20 Metal Tab TO-220 power film resistors from Caddock Electronics (Roseburg, OR) feature a standard lead finish of solderable thin gold for applications that require pure tin-free components. A non-inductive design...
Products Electronics & Computers
Radiation-Hardened ASICs
Aeroflex (Colorado Springs, CO) offers the UT130nHBD digital application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) that are radiationhardened from 100 krad to 300 krad(Si) total ionizing dose (TID), with up to 15,000,000...
Products Electronics & Computers
Rugged Keyboard
Advanced Input Systems (Coeur d’Alene, ID) offers the Grizzly Xtreme rugged keyboard for harsh environments. It is suited for use with gloved hands and light-pressure typing, and consists of an elastomer keypad encased in an...
Products Electronics & Computers
Embedded Computer
Diamond Systems Corp. (Mountain View, CA) has introduced Pluto, a compact board-level embedded computer based on the Intel Atom processor and featuring modular PC/104-Plus expansion. The PLT-N270-1G is the first in a series of...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Memory-Based, Structured, Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
For air, space, and ground-based systems, there is a clear need for high-performance, lightweight, low-power, highly reliable computing on data-intensive applications. A...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
High Assurance Virtualization Engine (HAVEN)
Virtualization technology has been around since the late 1960s. Initially, it was conceived to maximize utilization of expensive hardware by running multiple instances of an operating system (OS)...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Wireless Network Cocast: Location-Aware Cooperative Communications with Linear Network Coding
In wireless networks, reducing aggregate transmit power and having even power distribution increase the network lifetime. The conventional direct transmission (DTX) scheme results in high aggregate transmit power and uneven power distribution. In...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Cooperative Single-Antenna Node Networks
Future tactical networks will be complex, with severe constraints on energy and bandwidth, operating in dynamic and unpredictable environments. By exploiting the broadcast nature of the wireless medium and spatially dispersed nodes, some of these advantages can be realized through cooperation among...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Dynamics of Epitaxy on Nano-Sized Semiconductor Surfaces
Semiconductor self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) have emerged as one of the simplest subjects for exploring and exploiting the physics and device applications of charge carriers and...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Automated Data Acquisition for a Prognostics and Diagnostics Health Monitoring System
A highly flexible automated prognostics and diagnostics sensor module (PDSM) prototype is presently under development to be incorporated for data acquisition...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Considerations of Aeroacoustics in Turbojet-Engine Testing
A study of the aeroacoustics of a turbojet-engine test cell has been performed as one step in the development of a computational aeroacoustics capability (CAA) that could provide...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Polypeptide-Based Molecular Electronics
Polypeptide supramolecules that will self assemble from solution and will form molecular wires that exploit quantum mechanical transport mechanisms can enable the formation of molecular devices such as...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Heterogeneous System-on-a-Chip for Self-Powered Wireless Sensor Networks
A new dimension of system architecture design is emerging where hundreds to thousands of ultralight (
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Implementing On-Board Cloud Detection on a Reconfigurable Computer
Reconfigurable Computers (RCs) combine traditional microprocessors with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and are characterized by lower form/wrap factors compared to...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Using High-Performance Computing Clusters to Support Fine-Grained Parallel Applications
A heterogeneous cluster comprised of host processors and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) was used to accelerate the performance of parallel...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Asynchronous Architectures for Large-Integer Processors
New architectures have been developed for cryptographic hardware that offer high throughput, algorithm flexibility, radiation hardness, and low power. The asynchronous (clockless) architecture combines a dedicated large-integer processor (LIP), a field programmable gate array (FPGA), and a...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Evaluation of Four Methods of Reconfiguring an FPGA
A study was performed to evaluate the relative merits of four methods of reconfiguring a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) in response to detection of a faulty configurable logic block...
Products Electronics & Computers
Video Cards
The Matrix PCI Express 4-lane video cards from Great River Technology (Albuquerque, NM) are designed for high-speed ARINC 818, FC-AV, and HOTLink II applications. The cards can record or transmit video at 500 MB/s, are built with Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA technology, and can be configured for a variety of video formats and resolutions. They...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
High-Voltage, High-Temperature Power Electronics Capacitor
A novel high-temperature, high-voltage power electronics capacitor incorporates materials of construction and electrical components that have been initially designed as a segment of an...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Fuzzy System for Fault Diagnostics in Power Electronics-Based Brake-by-Wire System
Research in fuzzy diagnostics of brake-by-wire systems focuses on the power electronics switches, since they are often considered to be the weakest link in the...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
AC Coupled Interconnect for Low-Power Spaceborne Electronics
An AC coupled interconnect (ACCI) has been developed that could be used to create multiple solutions to contactless chip-to-chip communications. Assembly and testing of a 0.18 um bulk...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Emerging Power and Energy Technologies for Portable Electronics
A report discusses data obtained for the Navy's Special Operations Command (SOCOM), which seeks a portable power/energy source capable of providing sufficient power and energy for complex missions at a minimal weight penalty. The report focuses on the specific energy of systems,...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
High-Cycle Life Testing of RF MEMS Switches
The electromechanical, RF, and charging properties of an "air-gap" capacitive switch enable it to be utilized in high-cycle life testing. Monitoring both high-speed and low-speed switching...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Optical Microwave-Signal-Channelization Technique Analyzed
In a recent study, a proposed technique for optical frequency-band channelization of a microwave signal or other wide-band radio signal in a receiver was analyzed and compared with...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Magnetic Memory Devices for Embedded Computing
A program of research has been dedicated to the development of magnetic memory devices than can be incorporated into complementary metal oxide/semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuits, wherein...
Briefs Electronics & Computers
Effects of High-Power Microwave Pulses on Electronic Systems
A five-year program comprising several coordinated research efforts was devoted to increasing understanding and developing capabilities for computational modeling of the effects of...
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Laser-Based System for Measuring and Analyzing Vibrations
A system for noncontact measurement and analysis of vibrations of an electronic circuit board or a similar lightweight, nominally flat, rectangular object has been developed. This...
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