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Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 |
Products Martek Power offers high-power, multichannel power modules... Aeroflex offers Battery Electronic Unit family of Li-Ion cell balancing products... Elmo offers board-mounted servo drive with 5 kilowatts continuous power... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 |
Products ACT/Technico offers Gigabit Ethernet switches... Adimec offers 2-megapixel camera for unmanned vehicle applications... Aitech introduces Core 2 Duo-based single-board computer for use aboard UAVs... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004 |
New Products Universal avionics digital interface... VME card for motor drive power control... VME64 bus-to-bus adapters.. Add-on network-management software for the TCP/IP stack... Self-clinching panel fasteners... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 |
Products Mercury offers integrated UAV-based reconnaissance system... Statek crystal oscillators for unmanned vehicles... Power-amplifier module from Merrimac Industries drives UAV communications links... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 |
New Products From the Show New products announced at the 2004 Military & Aeropspace Electronics Show: 3U conduction-cooled CompactPCI single-board computer... Multimedia PMC graphics board... IEEE-1394a&b/FireWire VME board... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 Courtney E. Howard |
Empowering embedded computing Mainstream, COTS technologies combine with aerospace and defense industry innovations to deliver increased performance in compact electronics designs  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 Courtney E. Howard |
By Land, by Sea, by Air: Rugged Computers Are Everywhere Military and aerospace organizations around the world tap novel rugged mobile computers for mission-critical applications.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 |
Products Rugged, low power 6U VMEbus board... Fused tantalum capacitors... Multifunction portable flight display for UAV reconnaissance... Molded lenses for long-wavelength infrared imaging...  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 Ben Ames |
Military storage designers call for hard drives Disk drives are still getting denser-slowly-but they easily outstrip solid-state for price and capacity.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
A Voracious Need for Vectronics Military end users have an increasing demand for computing and networking performance in packages that are ever smaller, lighter, and more power efficient  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 |
New products New: Board products... Components... Computers... Connectors... Data buses and networking... Data Recording and Telemetry... Integrated circuits... Imaging and video... Motors and motor control... Power electronics... RF and microwave... Design and development tools... MEMS... Software...  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 |
New Products Low-voltage power supplies with power correction... Commercial DC solid-state relays... 1-GHz PowerPC 750GX-based single-board computer... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 John McHale |
VPX, the Heir to VME, Makes its Debut Embedded-system vendors are releasing their products based on the proposed VITA 46 (VPX) standard, while traditional VME standards such as VME 64 continue to prove profitable. Meanwhile, across the standards aisle, the PICMG MicroTCA standard is creating a buzz in military circles.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 Ben Ames |
Power Control is Trickier Than it Used to be Modern military equipment must be reliable and inexpensive, as designers rely on electronic components to ensure high performance on the digital battlefield.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 Ben Ames |
Engineers Balance Speed and Heat in a Single Board Processors and switched-fabric networks are moving data at faster speeds then ever before, which is leading designers to come up with innovative approaches to channeling information flow, power management, and keeping boards cool.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 John McHale |
Sensitive and Tireless: High-Endurance UAVs Sense What Men Cannot Sensors for unmanned aircraft are evolving in efficiency and capability as payload designers look for every possible edge in surveillance, combat, and collision avoidance.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 John McHale |
Demanding High-Speed I/O Today's complicated military electronics systems require I/O that moves data from sensors to commanders in real time.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009 |
Show Products Product highlights for the avionics and military shows in San Diego, June 1-2, 2009.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 |
Products Adimec introduces OPAL-1000m, fast 1-megapixel cameras... Impulse adds two members to the Titan range of connectors... Cedip offers thermal surveillance system for military applications... Sensor fusion in a HUD... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
Advanced Vetronics: Hit the Ground Running Industry heeds the warfighter's call for innovative, responsive, and reliable electronics in combat vehicles on the ground.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Computational Complexity Single-board and mezzanine-board computers deliver expanded functionality in a reduced size.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 John McHale |
Software investment key for test and measurement equipment designers Military purchasers of test and measurement equipment, as in other markets, are demanding higher performance at lower costs and with greater ease of use. Outsourcing is one solution that many are turning to more and more.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
Secure Information Storage Military and aerospace equipment designers have a wealth of options available to fill the ever-increasing need for secure data storage in the field.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 |
New Products Tough membrane switches... COTS networking products... Dual-port Ethernet PMC interface... Environmentally sealed connectors... Rugged notebook computer with swappable hard disk... Software toolset to help implement IEEE 1641... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2008 John McHale |
Death, Taxes, and 1553 The decades-old, 1-megabit-per-second MIL-STD 1553 databus is still the reliable choice in old and new systems, yet demands for faster throughput in the network-centric world is fueling new approaches to increase the speed of the mature technology.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John McHale |
U.S. Navy Avionics Systems Embrace Open Architectures Designers of avionics equipment for U.S. Navy aircraft see obsolescence as their biggest obstacle in meeting the steady demand for upgrades and retrofits of existing aircraft. Their solution is open architecture.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2007 John McHale |
Sharing the stage: 10-Gig Ethernet and Serial RapidIO Military designers see Serial RapidIO and 10 Gigabit Ethernet complementing each other in systems today and the near future. Meanwhile Rocket IO in field-programmable gate arrays is exciting board designers.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Rugged Electronics Empower Tomorrow's Technology Technology companies enable our military's net-centric vision through smaller, faster, stronger computers.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 Ben Ames |
Power electronics drive next-generation vehicles From electric-drive ships to hybrid Humvees, military vehicles that rely on electric motors will soon rely on advanced power electronics to handle huge voltages in their drive trains. Designers of military vehicles, in fact, see electric power as the next great frontier.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004 |
Hard Drives Rule for Military Storage Military designers continue to favor hard drives for data storage because of their density and cost efficiency, but new technologies are on the way, including holographic optical storage and flash devices.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 |
Makers of ground robots ask for better sensors and communication links Troops in Iraq are in desperate need of unmanned ground systems (UGSs) to dispose of land mines and booby traps.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006 John McHale |
Advanced I/O Means Ethernet Military designers are excited about the I/O capabilities that 10-Gigabit Ethernet promises to bring to the table.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 |
Dilemma: Databus or switched fabric? Board designers today face a new performance bottleneck: modern processors are so fast that traditional parallel databuses cannot keep them adequately supplied with data to take advantage of their blazing speed.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
Thinking Inside the Box Systems engineers and technology firms partner to equip mil-aero platforms with innovative enclosures, backplanes, and electronics packaging.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Driving the Demand for Data Storage Sensors span the battlefields, producing a wealth of mission-critical data that must be kept at once readily available and secure.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 |
New Products Digitizer cards with proprietary data-conversion ICs... Family of flat-panel-display kiosk monitors... Java 2 micro addition for OSE real-time operating system... DC-DC converters for military and aerospace applications... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 Ben Ames |
Rugged Computers Power the Digital Battlefield Troops are pushing rugged computers harder than ever, as manufacturers seek tougher display screens, more reliable hard drives, and faster processors. A major challenge for engineers is to keep pace with fast upgrades in COTS technology.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004 John Keller |
Vetronics of the Future Combat System The electronic and optoelectronic technologies of the future battlefield will help provide unprecedented situational awareness and maneuver capability to U.S. and allied ground troops.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 Courtney E. Howard |
Storage Trends in the Trenches The latest advancements in portable, rugged data storage are designed to deliver critical data to warfighters on the battlefield quickly, securely, and without fail.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2009 John McHale |
Steady as she goes The most promising applications for single-board computer designers continue to be legacy defense VME technology, a common choice among military electronics system integrators.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 J.R. Wilson |
Military and Commercial Avionics Draw From the Same Technology Well The increasing imperative for the military to be able to adopt and adapt new technologies has led to a dramatic push for new, avionics-specific industry standards for power, form factors, and interfaces that will apply to military as well as commercial aviation.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Industry Veterans Advance SBC Technologies for Aerospace Applications Embedded computing companies such as General Micro Systems and Aitech Defense Systems continue to design and develop single-board computers (SBCs) with an eye toward aerospace environments and applications.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004 |
Product Applications Army picks Vista board for Bradley Fighting Vehicle... F-35 Joint Strike Fighter uses Actel FPGA for engine electronics... Lockheed Martin engineers streamline design cycle with Agile PLM... Aurora patrol plane uses multicomputer from Mercury... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 Ben Ames |
Vetronics for the Future Combat System The next-generation vetronics systems will be a single web that can share data among themselves, with neighboring vehicles, and even with nearby soldiers and distant commanders.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 |
Themis Introduces CoolShell High-Performance Rugged Blade Server CoolShell rugged server technology combines high-performance, single-board computer and graphics processor in a blade server configuration for rugged systems applications in demanding environments  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004 Dave Garcia |
COTS Systems Streamline Costs for Military Suppliers An adroit military supplier would do well to focus on the areas that are central to its strategy and then streamline its business by outsourcing the non-value-added processes to trusted partners.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2007 John McHale |
Customizing to Their Needs Commercial off-the-shelf technologies have streamlined components in defense applications, but some mission-critical situations call for products that must be designed from the ground up to aid war fighters on the battlefield.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 |
In Brief BAE systems to develop on-board generator for Humvee... Navy P-3C aircraft use data link from Lockheed Martin... Northrop Grumman tests software for Webb Space Telescope... Air Force eyes state-of-the-art jet fighter targeting pods... etc.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 Ben Ames |
Contractors balance speed and efficiency in digital signal processing Designers of DSP technology for the military are forced to weight the importance of size, weight, speed, power, and cost.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 |
CompactPCI Showing up More and More in Military Designs An interview with the president and chairman of an industry consortium that develops open computer standards for industrial control, instrumentation, military, and communications applications on the growth of the military electronics industry.  |