John McHale Editorial Director
Sharon Hess Managing Editor —
The Geo-iNAV Selective Availability Anti-spoofing Module (SAASM), designed by engineers at Geodetics Incorporated in San Diego, CA, and distributed by Spectracom in Rochester, NY, is a GPS-aided inertial navigation system used for UAV and Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) navigation and tracki...
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Engineers at Harwin in Salem, NH, are meeting reduced size requirements from their aerospace customers with their Gecko high-reliability connector family based on a 1.25 mm pitch. The low profile G125 series’ 1.25 mm pin spacing enables a 35 percent space saving over other high-perfo...
John McHale Editorial Director —
Pentair engineers have designed a ruggedized version of their Schroff VARISTAR cabinet platform that has enhanced vibration resistance – meeting MIL-STD-901D – for protecting sensitive electronic systems during extreme operating conditions often encountered during sea operation...
John McHale Editorial Director —
Engineers at Truck-Lite in Falconer, NY, developed a round LED headlamp that uses a light delivery method that adopts parabolic reflector technology to generate a smooth, even light output. Truck-Lite’s 27290C and 27291C LED Headlamps utilize metalized reflector optics to enable a cl...
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Military personnel operating vehicles in extreme, heavy debris environments need ultra rugged displays to resist the elements. The Hydra-21 from Z Microsystems in San Diego, CA is designed for these types of applications. It comes with a 1600 by 1200 (UXGA) Light Emitting Diode (LED) displ...
John McHale Editorial Director —
The DSx 300 codec from RGB Spectrum in Alameda, CA can record, stream, and replay signals at as much as 1920 x 1200 and 1600 x 1200 in resolution. It can record signal streams to locally connected USB storage devices and also to external network storage devices such as RAIDs. The DSx 300 s...
John McHale Editorial Director
Sharon Hess Managing Editor —
Engineers at Aeroflex Colorado Springs improved performance in a 130 nanometer CMOS process with their new microprocessors – the UT699E and the UT700. The UT699E is an enhanced version of the company’s UT699. It was migrated from .25 micron CMOS to 130 nm CMOS, resulting in a f...
John McHale Editorial Director
Sharon Hess Managing Editor —
The Micro Dosimeter (P/N UDOS001) from Teledyne Microelectronic Technologies in Los Angeles is a compact hybrid microcircuit that directly measures Total Ionizing Dose (TID) absorbed by an internal silicon test mass. The test mass simulates silicon die of ICs onboard a host spacecraft in m...
John McHale Editorial Director
Sharon Hess Managing Editor —
The MAGIC1 rugged display computer from GE Intelligent Platforms in Huntsville, AL, provides processing capability for signal processing intensive applications such as radar, sonar, and image processing. Engineers at the Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) used the boar...
John McHale Editorial Director
Sharon Hess Managing Editor —
Certifying to FAA applications is an expensive, time-consuming process, but required for any software or hardware that is flight-critical on aircraft that travel through civil airspace. LDRA engineers in Wirral, United Kingdom, have found a way to make that process more manageable by creat...
