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Acrylic Flow Meters
Dakota Instruments’ 6A03 acrylic flow meters are offered with interchangeable direct reading scales for air, water, argon, oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium, and hydrogen. Dual scales display flow rates in both...
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Microwave Analog Signal Generators
Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, CA) has introduced two microwave analog signal generators: the N5183B MXG and N5173B EXG. The MXG has phase noise of less than -124 dBc/Hz (at 10 GHz, 10 kHz offset). The EXG...
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Government-Sanctioned Test Site Opens up Airspace for MIT Researchers
Massachusetts will be the home, and MIT the beneficiary, of a new FAA-designated unmanned aircraft test site just an hour and a half from campus. MIT classes and...
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Automated Testing of Advanced, High-Performance, Point-to-Multipoint Radio Systems
In 2008, 4RF Communications started development of a new range of radio products to augment their existing point-to-point, long-range wireless link product. Used...
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Thermal Simulation and Testing of Expanded Metal Foils for Lightning Protection
With the implementation of major aircraft structures fabricated from carbon fiber reinforced plastic materials, lightning protection has become a more complicated...
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Wire Grid Polarizers
High-contrast IR wire grid polarizers from Edmund Optics are suited for broadband IR applications that require high transmission and contrast, including spectroscopy and thermal imaging. The polarizers are made by...
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Precision Digital Pressure Gauge
The Palmer model PTG200 digital pressure gauge from Palmer Wahl Instrumentation Group is an excellent substitute for mechanical precision pointer pressure gauges. Powered by three standard AA user-replaceable...
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Industrial, High-Precision Joystick
CTI Electronics, a supplier of rugged computer peripheral and motion control devices to US armed forces for over 20 years, will manufacture a military-grade, industrial pointing device to retrofit the...
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SoC Evaluation Kit
Avnet Electronics Marketing (Phoenix, AZ) has released MicroZed, a $199 evaluation kit based on the Xilinx Zynq®- 7000 All Programmable SoC. MicroZed supports multiple use models for exploration, prototyping and System-...
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Designing Thermal Management Systems for Smaller, Lighter Avionics
The avionics systems of military aircraft support maneuverability and situation awareness for the pilot, process essential images, operate sensors, record data, and provide for...
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CompactPCI Steps Into the Future
CompactPCI Serial has proven to be a beneficial technology upgrade for a number of embedded systems designers accustomed to working with the legacy CompactPCI platform. Not only does CompactPCI Serial bring...
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Measuring Impact Damage to Toughened CFRP Laminates with Time Domain Reflectometry
Laminated Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) composites are very effective in weight saving in aeronautical structural components. For these laminated CFRP...
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Arbitrary Waveform Generator
Geotest-Marvin Test Systems (Irvine, CA) has announced the GX1649 64-channel PXI arbitrary waveform generator with 16-bit amplitude resolution and an output voltage range of ±15 volts. It is suited for use in...
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Phoning It In: Making Smartphones Secure Enough for Tactical Communications
You suddenly find yourself pinned down by enemy gunfire. What do you do? Whip out your smartphone and call for an airstrike? Yes, if the U.S. Marine Corps has its way.
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An Improved SDR FPGA Verification Methodology for Emerging OFDMA Waveforms
The rapid evolution of commercial technologies such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) is becoming more attractive for Software-Defined Radio (SDR) and public safety...
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Digital Electronic Caliper
Hexagon Metrology (North Kingstown, RI) has announced the Brown & Sharpe TWIN-CAL IP67 calipers, which include a built-in output connection. The main components of the IP67-compliant tool are encapsulated and...
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DAQ Module
The DT9838 Strain- and Bridge-Based DAQ Module from Data Translation (Marlboro, MA) features simultaneous measurements of four 24-bit analog input channels; support for full-, half- , and quarter-bridge strain gage elements ,...
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Digital Radio Test System
Aeroflex (Minneapolis, MN) offers the 3550 digital radio test system featuring a color touchscreen. Designed for Professional Mobile Radio (PMR), public safety, and other land mobile radio applications, the system...
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Testing Modern Radios
Several techniques are now being employed to ensure efficient communications across the chaotic radio spectrum. Chief among them is Software Defined Radio (SDR), which uses software to dynamically control communications...
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Characterization of Ceramic Composite Materials Using Terahertz Nondestructive Evaluation Techniques
This work describes the use of nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques to characterize defects such as rust, voids, etc. in materials, and...
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Radar, Electronic Warfare, and Electronic Intelligence Testing: Identifying Common Test Challenges
Radio detection and ranging (RADAR) systems, as they were originally called, have blossomed into a wide array of indispensible equipment for...
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Thermal Mechanical Fatigue Crack Growth Testing
Turbines in aircraft turbojet engines are being subject to increasingly higher temperatures to improve fuel efficiency. High turbine efficiency requires the ability of turbine blades to withstand...
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Gas 'Plume' Detection System Could Protect Soldiers, First Responders
A wind monitoring and modeling system being developed by the Army Research Laboratory's (ARL) White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) division could one day protect soldiers and...
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Drive Test Scanner
Rohde & Schwarz (Columbia, MD) has developed a multi-functional universal radio network analyzer that provides drive testing. The R&S®TSMW drive test scanner supports Long Term Evolution (LTE) formats in communication bands,...
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Improving Battlefield Connectivity for Dismounted Forces
The warfighter couldn’t take it anymore. His team’s mission was to sweep villages, collect fingerprints, photograph irises, and compare these biometric indicators against a registry...
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Digitizer/Signal Generator
Innovative Integration (Simi Valley, CA) offers the X6-1000M that integrates highspeed digitizing and signal generation with signal processing on a PMC/XMC IO module. The coupling of the digitizing to a Virtex6 FPGA...
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Using Software Defined Instruments to Address the Mixed-Signal Test Challenges of Today’s Software Defined Radios
Software Defined Radio (SDR) represents an important move forward for mobile and personal communications, promising a major...
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Atomic Weapons Defense Testers Mark Major Milestones
Two remarkable pulsed-power machines used to test the nation’s defenses against atomic weapons have surpassed milestones at Sandia National Laboratories: 4,000 firings, called ‘shots,’...
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Spectrally Compliant Waveforms for Wideband Radar
Modern radars often require the use of wideband waveforms to perform high-resolution target imaging. In microwave systems, the bandwidth can be on the order of 1.5 GHz, while in UHF systems that...
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