INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
TE Connectivity's Circuit Protection business unit (Menlo Park, CA) has introduced a new family of silicon ESD (SESD) devices. Exhibiting ±20kV and ±22kV air discharge ratings — which go well beyond the IEC's 8kV contact and...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
ADLINK Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA) has introduced its new 40G AdvancedTCA(R) (ATCA) switch blade, the aTCA-3710, featuring a Broadcom BCM56846 10/40 GbE Fabric Interface Switch, Broadcom BCM56334 24-port GbE...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Mercury Systems, Inc. (Chelmsford, MA) recently announced the new Ensemble(R) SFM6104 Switch Fabric Module with enhanced InfiniBand® and 40 Gigabit Ethernet capability for embedded, state-of-the-art...
INSIDER Product: Electronics & Computers
Alliance Memory (San Carlos, CA) recently introduced a new line of high-speed CMOS double data rate 2 synchronous DRAMs (DDR2 SDRAM) with densities of 512 Mb (AS4C32M16D2) and 1 Gb (AS4C64M16D2, AS4C128M8D2) in...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Sandia National Laboratories researchers Jim Martin and Kyle Solis have discovered a way to harness magnetic fields to create vigorous, organized fluid flows in particle...
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
A research collaboration consisting of IHP-Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics in Germany and the Georgia Institute of Technology has demonstrated the world's fastest silicon-based...
News: Energy
A team at MIT and Harvard University has created a material that absorbs the sun’s heat and stores that energy in chemical form, ready to be released again on demand.The technology provides an opportunity for the expansion of solar power into new realms, specifically applications where heat is...
News: Design
Automotive industry recruiters know the supply of engineers is thinner than the demand.
News: Automotive
In a bid to expand use of its expertise to a wider audience, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) developed the Virtual Engine Research Institute and Fuels Initiative. This...
News: Software
Smaller engines, lightweighting, and even connectivity are a few of the trends that dominate the drive to reduce fuel consumption and emissions. Those developments are making...
News: Software
With keen observational skills and straight talk, a street-smart 40-year-old entrepreneur makes connections with that elusive younger generation of car buyers known as Generation Y.
News: Electronics & Computers
As electronic feature content increases—from safety and performance systems to advanced telematics—carmakers face a continuing challenge to make all the connections while...
News: Regulations/Standards
The so-called BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) are indeed properly pursued as automotive growth markets, “but maybe some of us a little overestimated the growth...
News: Green Design & Manufacturing
The passenger vehicle and commercial vehicle industries are working to meet government regulations for emissions and fuel economy while ironing out potential unintended issues.
Videos: Imaging
According to a 2013 United Nations report, 2 to 5 percent of all international trade involves counterfeit goods. These products include electronics, automotive and aircraft parts,...
Videos: Test & Measurement
Researchers in the lab of Gregory Kovacs, an electrical engineering professor at Stanford University, typically develop practical ways of measuring physiological signals to determine...
News: Propulsion
A change in fuel requirements could help automakers achieve another efficiency gain.
News: Design
As the car becomes more connected, it faces security vulnerabilities, and although recognizing them is a start, the industry must be working on preventative solutions that...
News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Voraforce 5300 resin matrix from Dow Automotive Systems offers 90-s cycle times for resin transfer molding (RTM), making RTM-produced carbon-fiber composites suitable for mass production. According to the company,...
News: RF & Microwave Electronics
The technology that automakers have been adding to improve safety and fuel economy, as well as maintain emissions compliance, also can provide high-performance modes, thanks to the...
News: RF & Microwave Electronics
After a major upgrade for the 2014 model year, Mercedes-Benz has made further investments for MY2015. Some of the major changes seen in 2014 were updated styling and an...
Videos: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers at the Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory of the University of Tokyo have created an interface called Anywhere Surface Touch, which allows any flat or curved surface in an...
INSIDER: Medical
Using a single drop of blood, a team of engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has developed what they say is a faster, cheaper, and more accurate tool for diagnosing even mild cases of asthma.
News: Materials
Honeywell introduces Solstice performance fluid (PF) with improved cleaning power for metal and plastic parts. Solstice PF effectively cleans oils, greases, and other substances commonly encountered in off-highway, military, and aerospace equipment repair and features a global warming potential (GWP) of 1, which is...
News: Aerospace
The Bluestop chrome coating process from Nelson offers protection for chrome-plated exhaust components against discoloration. The multi-step, clear-ceramic coating process features temperature resistance greater than 1000°F...
Product Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Cortec’s EcoLine 3680 is a certified bio-based, biodegradable, ready-to-use temporary coating for multimetal protection. EcoLine 3680 is formulated with renewable raw materials and provides indoor and outdoor multimetal...
News: Aerospace
Ultra-short pulsed laser deposition (USPLD) surface coating technology from Picodeon enables creation of porous or dense aluminum oxide (Al2O3) coatings on heat-sensitive substrates in various industrial metallization...
Product Briefs: Aerospace
A dry-tech box from igus is a sample kit designed to help engineers find the right material bearing for an application. The box contains a set of card overlays, which filter the bearing choices by criteria, much like the...