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...
John McHale, Editorial Director
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor —
WinSystems engineers in Arlington, TX, are enabling high-performance graphics processing with their new line of Multi-core ARM Single Board Computers (SBCs) based on the Freescale i.MX6 family of Cortex-A9 multicore processors. ARM cores coupled with readily available software tools help m...
John McHale, Editorial Director
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor —
Limited server Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP), high-performance cluster computing environments are enabled by the RES-XR4 High Density (HD) Server and its Intel-based architecture from Themis Computer in Fremont, CA. The system can double the compute density of a stack of 1U servers with a...
John McHale, Editorial Director
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor —
Experts at Coto Technology Inc., in North Kingstown, RI, have leveraged high aspect ratio MEMS technology to create a small magnetic reed switch for high-performance applications that require extremely small switch size. The RedRock RS1-A-2515 reed switch provides all of the capabilities o...
John McHale, Editorial Director
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor —
Military training and simulation systems need high-fidelity graphics avionics displays, communications equipment, maintenance systems, and automotive dashboards. The GL Studio designed by engineers at DiSTI Corp. in Orlando, FL, provides enhanced realism through its reusable 2D or 3D graph...
John McHale, Editorial Director
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor —
Fischer Connectors engineers in Alpharetta, GA, are targeting small military devices used in harsh environments such as portable communications equipment with their MiniMax rugged push-pull interconnect solution that provides more connections in a smaller space. The product is an all-in-on...
John McHale, Editorial Director
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor —
New RF connector modules from TE Connectivity in Harrisburg, PA, are designed for rugged embedded computing applications that leverage the OpenVPX architecture. The Multiposition RF connector modules were developed to meet VITA 67.0, 67.1, and 67.2 standards that define the RF connector mo...
John McHale, Editorial Director
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor —
The CMA-4000 Flight and Displays Management System, developed by engineers at Esterline CMC Electronics in Montreal, leverages an open architecture design to include radio control management, mission management, and flight management functions in one 11 lb box. The CMC Electronics box can...
John McHale, Editorial Director
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor —
The AHRS-8 navigation sensor from Sparton Corp. in De Leon Springs, FL, is small enough to fit into Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) payloads and to provide stability and navigation capability in environments with high levels of electromagnetic noise. It offers 3D magnetic field measurement a...
John McHale, Editorial Director
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor —
Designers at Red Rapids in Richardson, TX, developed a product family called Signal Stream for general-purpose signal acquisition and generation for military applications such as Software-Defined Radio (SDR) and radar pulse receivers/transmitters as well as applications in the medical and...
