Editor's Choice Products
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Thermal testing of electronic components
Designed for power cycling and thermal testing of electronics components to simulate and measure lifetime performance, the MicReD Industrial Power Tester 1500A from Mentor Graphics Corporation combines power cycling and thermal transient measurements with structure function analysis while...
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Secure M2M command and control communications
FreeWave Technologies engineers released a family of command and control solutions targeted at unmanned systems and other military and government applications. The WavePoint solutions are based on a wireless Machine-to-Machine (M2M) com-munications architecture that offers high-speed conne...
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Heavy duty drive for harsh environments
Experts at maxon motor developed a heavy duty motor program that contains 22 mm-32 mm diameter brushless motors with shock, vibration, and temperature tolerances necessary for the exceptionally high requirements in space technology or far below the Earth’s surface where extreme opera...
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Small, rugged carrier board for unmanned systems, digital mapping
Engineers at Connect Tech developed their CCG010 COM Express Type 10 Mini Carrier Board for rugged Small Form Factor (SFF) applications in unmanned systems, avionics, military ground vehicles, digital mapping, and others with high performance processing needs in constrained Size, Weight, a...
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DSP technology used for BLDC speed and torque motor controller
A new speed and torque Brushless DC (BLDC) motor controller from Data Device Corporation (DDC) uses advanced Digital Signal Processing (DSP) to provide a solution that can be easily tuned for use with various motors and loads. The device’s programmability enables parameters such as s...
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Networked rifles from Colt Canada enable data exchange with C2 platforms
Engineers at Colt Canada are integrating their Variable Message Format (VMF) interface from General Dynamics Canada into the Soldier Weapon & Observer Reconnaissance Devices (SWORD) system to improve Command and Control (C2) communications. This will extend the data exchange capability dow...
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Verifying safety critical software systems
Verocel experts developed a commercial version of their VeroTrace tool, which is an advanced lifecycle management environment that develops, verifies, and certifies multiple software systems. The new commercial version has an enhanced architecture, an Eclipse IDE, and other capabilities so...
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Low-power system-on-chip modules
Low-power, System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions are enabled by two new QorIQ-based modules from Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc. (X-ES). The XPedite5970 and the XPedite6101 feature the Freescale QorIQ T2080 and T1042 devices. The XPedite5970 is a 3U OpenVPX REDI module running the T2080 proce...
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New interface supports PROFINET v2.3 IRT
Innovasic engineers released a new version of the company’s RapID Platform Network Interface for PROFINET IRT and RT connectivity. The new interface supports PROFINET v2.3 and provides cycle times down to 250 s. Cycle times down to 31.25 s are supported on the same hardwa...
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Verifying safety critical software systems
Verocel experts developed a commercial version of their VeroTrace tool, which is an advanced lifecycle management environment that develops, verifies, and certifies multiple software systems. The new commercial version has an enhanced architecture, an Eclipse IDE, and other capabilities so...
