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Precision Assembly of Systems on Surfaces (PASS)
Chemiresistors represent a powerful class of chemical sensors that can be readily integrated into any electrical system, can be miniaturized, are readily multiplexed, and take nearly zero-power...
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Royal Navy Uses Pilotless Aircraft to Navigate Through Ice
A tiny pilotless aircraft, built by the University of Southampton, launched from the Royal Navy’s ice patrol ship HMS Protector for the first time to assist with navigating...
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AdvancedTCA Chassis
Pixus Technologies (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) now offers a 15U AdvancedTCA (ATCA) chassis that exceeds 400W/slot cooling capability and meets stringent NEBS requirements. The Pixus chassis leverages the original Kaparel...
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12A POL DC-DC Converters
TDK Corporation (National City, CA) has introduced the 12 Ampere TDKLambda iCH series of POL (Point of Load) non-isolated DCDC converters. Accepting a wide range input of 4.5 to 14 VDC, the series can operate from...
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RF Amplifier System
Empower RF Systems (Inglewood, CA) has begun shipping the Model 2180 RF amplifier system covering 1 to 2.5 GHz and delivering 2 kW CW of broadband output power in a 8U, air-cooled chassis. Features include: user selectable...
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720W AC-DC Switching Power Supplies
Acopian (Easton, PA) announced that the 1U Switching Regulated 720W ACDC Power Supply family is now RoHS Compliant and certified to UL Safety Standards UL 60950 (Information Technology Equipment), and UL 508...
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31–36 GHz Receiver
Richardson RFPD (Geneva, IL), Inc. announced the availability and full design support capabilities for a new receiver from M/A-COM Technology Solutions. The XR1020-QH is a 31–36 GHz receiver with a noise figure of 3 dB...
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Axial and Radial Seals
Morgan Advanced Materials’ (Windsor, UK) Seals and Bearings business offers quality axial and radial seal components for applications with severe service conditions. Morgan’s components are highly thermally...
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50 GHz Handheld Combination Analyzer
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (Santa Rosa, CA) has added six millimeter-wave models to its family of FieldFox handheld analyzers. The flagship model is the industry’s first handheld combination analyzer to...
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Military Wide Band Amplifier
Lansdale Semiconductor, Inc. (Phoenix, AZ) has announced the continued availability of the ML1590/BGA military wide-band RF amplifier, National Stock Number (NSN) 5962-01-280-2203. The ML1590 is supplied in (8) lead...
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Turbine Flow Meters: Technology-of-Choice for Measuring Critical Fluid Flow Applications
The aerospace industry has some of the most difficult operating conditions imaginable. Sensors of all kinds used in this industry must stand up to the...
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GE Scanner Enhances Defect Detection for Industrial CT
GE Measurement & Control is offering its proprietary scatter|correct technology to industrial microCT users of GE’s phoenix v|tome|x m CT (computed tomography) system. It provides...
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A High-Level Look at the Global MRO Market
Aerospace and defense (A&D) companies that provide maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) services increasingly find themselves out of their comfort zone as the recent appetite for new...
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Surface Generation Speeds Composites Throughput with One-Shot Stamp-Forming Process
Surface Generation is working with research group WMG, an academic department of the University of Warwick, and AGC AeroComposites to develop new composite...
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Aerospace Gimbals Test Service
A new test service introduced by Bal Seal Engineering, Inc. (Foothill Ranch, CA) offers OEMs verified performance results for Bal Seal® spring-energized rotary/face seals used in aerospace and defense gimbal...
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Flat Cable Assemblies
Cicoil's (Valencia, CA) flat cable assemblies are designed for use in targeting pods, thermographic camera and infrared sight systems typically utilized in multi-role fighter aircraft, attack helicopters and maritime...
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Flow Transmitter
The AS-FT Flow Transmitter from FCI Aerospace (San Marcos, CA) features a rugged, highly reliable thermal dispersion technology sensor design that is ideal for mission-critical air, gas and fluid monitoring systems on...
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Small Form Factor Systems
4DSP (Austin, TX) has announced two new additions to its Compact Embedded System (CES) line. The CES820 and the ruggedized CESCC820 variant both feature an upgraded Xilinx Kintex UltraScale FPGA and support for the new...
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XMC Modules
Acromag’s (Wixom, MI) new XMC-7A200 is a XMC mezzanine module enhanced with Xilinx ® Artix® -7 FPGA for low-power consumption and exceptional 128M × 16-bit Quad DDR3 SDRAM processing performance. Reconfigurable Artix-7 FPGA is...
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Micro System-on-Module
Inforce Computing®, Inc. (Fremont, CA) has announced the ultrasmall Inforce 6501™ Micro System-on-Module (SOM). The Inforce 6501 Micro SOM is powered by the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 805 processor. The Snapdragon 805...
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Contactless Connectivity System
TE Connectivity’s (TE) (Berwyn, PA) new ARISO Contactless Connectivity system, available from Mouser Electronics (Mansfield, TX), is a hybrid interconnect system that allows for both power and data to be sent...
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5-Slot 3U Mission Computer
Curtiss-Wright Corporation (Ashburn, VA) announced that its Defense Solutions division has introduced a new fully integrated 5-slot 3U OpenVPX™ rugged mission computer designed to quickly deploy computer power on...
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SIP DC-DC Converters
Premier Magnetics (Lake Forest, CA) has announced additions to its PDCS family of self-contained, single- in-line-package (SIP) DC-DC converters for distributed power applications. The additions to the PDCS product family...
Briefs Materials
Quantitative Diagnostics of Multilayered Composite Structures with Ultrasonic Guided Waves
Aging infrastructure has a major impact on safety, increasing the need to assess damage severity. Machinery, systems, and components such as airplanes,...
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Aviation Fluid-Repellent Sealant Tape
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. (Gore) (Landenberg, PA) has enhanced its line of GORE™ SKYFLEX™ Aerospace Materials with a new aviation fluid-repellent tape. Available in various sizes, the new...
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VPX Ejector Handles and Panels
Pixus Technologies (Waterloo, Ontario) now offers ejector handles and panels for 3U and 6U VPX boards. Designed in Europe, the Pixus Type IV IEEE hot-swap ejector handles feature a rounded base that allow the...
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Analysis Software
NI (formerly AWR Corporation) (El Segundo, CA) has released version 12 Analyst- MP™ 3D multiphysics finite element method (FEM) electromagnetic (EM) analysis software. This latest version delivers up to 10X improvement in...
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FPGA Accelerator
Nallatech (Camarillo, CA) has introduced the 510T™ - a GPU-sized 16-lane PCIe 3.0 card featuring two of Altera’s new floating-point enabled Arria 10 FPGAs delivering up to sixteen times the performance of the previous...
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FAA-Certifiable DO-178C RTOS
DDC-I (Phoenix, AZ) recently announced Deos™ Fourpeaks, a verified DO-178 baseline for the Deos real-time operating system with complete Design Assurance Level A (DAL A) certification artifacts. The new baseline...
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