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Products: Electronics & Computers
Fidelity Electronics (Toronto, Canada) has announced the release of the Very Personal Computer (VPC), a low-cost, fully preloaded, Wifi portable netbook computer. The VPC weighs only 1.5 lb. and measures 8.4" x...
Products: Electronics & Computers
LeCroy Corporation (Chestnut Ridge, NY) has introduced the WaveMaster 8 Zi Series digital oscilloscopes, Serial Data Analyzers, and Disk Drive Analyzers that provide up to 30 GHz of bandwidth, 80 GS/s of sample...
Products: Electronics & Computers
HI-TECH Software (Queensland, Australia) has launched an “omniscient” ANSI C compiler that increases DMIPS/MHz and cuts the power drain of Silicon Labs’ 8051-based mixed-signal MCU families, including the ultra...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Zarlink Semiconductor Inc. (Ottawa, Canada) has announced the ZL™30143 and ZL30142 Synchronous Ethernet devices that integrate analog and digital phase locked loops (APLL/DPLL) for central timing card...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Virtium Technology Inc. (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA) has added the SSDDR SODIMM to its family of memory and storage product lines. SSDDR is a memory and SSD board design that combines Serial ATA Solid State Drive...
Products: Electronics & Computers
Mouser Electronics, Inc. (Mansfield, TX) is now stocking the ZIC2410 RF Transceiver System-on-Chip (SoC) from California Eastern Laboratories. The ZIC2410 Transceiver IC is a fully-integrated System-on-Chip (SoC)...
Articles: Imaging
Munitions accuracy provides an advantage in leveraging and applying force and has been sought after by political and military strategists for decades. Reflecting recent advances in...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
An apparatus for mid-infrared reflectance imaging has been developed as means of inspecting for subsurface damage in thermal-barrier coatings (TBCs). The apparatus is designed, more...
Briefs: Imaging
Improving the Visible and Infrared Contrast Ratio of Microshutter Arrays
Three device improvements have been developed that dramatically enhance the contrast ratio of microshutters. The goal of a microshutter is to allow as much light through as possible when the shutters are in the open configuration, and preventing any light from passing through...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Improved scanners to be incorporated into hyperspectral microscope-based imaging systems have been invented. Heretofore, in microscopic imaging, including spectral imaging, it has been...
Application Briefs: Electronics & Computers
With more embedded systems using SSDs in critical applications, designers are now asking the question, “How long will this SSD last in my application?” To help answer this pressing...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Commonly available COTS solutions feature high-speed interconnected processing elements with ever decreasing geometries and ever increasing complexity. Modular COTS...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
Every day we use complex mathematics, hidden inside products. When we listen to a song from an MP3 player, we are using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), a “complex domain” algorithm. The...
Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
A new cell designed to mimic the photosynthetic processes of plants to convert carbon dioxide into carbonaceous products and oxygen at high efficiency, has an...
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Silicon Wafer-Scale Substrate for Microshutters and Detector Arrays
The silicon substrate carrier was created so that a large-area array (in this case 62,000+ elements of a microshutter array) and a variety of discrete passive and active devices could be mounted on a single board, similar to a printed circuit board. However, the density and...
Articles: Photonics/Optics
Heat transfer is governed by three distinct mechanisms: convection, conduction, and radiation. Unlike convection or conduction, heat transfer through radiation does not occur through...
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Thin-layered structures containing arrays of micromachined horns, denoted solid micro-horn arrays (SMIHAs), have been conceived as improved means of matching acoustic impedances between...
Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
An improved closed-loop controller has been built for a three-axis piezoelectric positioning stage. The stage can be any of a number of commercially available or custom-made units that...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
A method of dynamic self-locking has been demonstrated to be effective as a means of stabilizing the wavelength of light emitted by a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) that is an...
Products: Energy
Portable media devices have increasingly larger displays and longer video playback, and require more power. The LM3530 from National Semiconductor Corp. (Santa Clara, CA) employs ambient...
Application Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
Micro-Molded IMLI Matrix part Phillips Plastics Corp. Prescott, WI 877-508-0252phillipsplastics.com
To achieve a high level of energy density as well as green...
Application Briefs: Photonics/Optics
C-mount Xenoplan and Cinegon lenses Schneider Optics Van Nuys, CA 818-766-3715www.schneideroptics.com
Schneider Optics’ C-mount Xenoplan and Cinegon lenses were selected by NASA to...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
In an alternative version of a proposed bimaterial thermal compensator for a whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) optical resonator, a mechanical element having nonlinear stiffness would be added to...
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Blue Ridge Numerics, Charlottesville, VA, has introduced CFdesign 2010 computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software that provides a CAD-driven design study environment to let engineers achieve pass-fail and...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Internal Water Vapor Photoacoustic Calibration
Water vapor absorption is ubiquitous in the infrared wavelength range where photoacoustic trace gas detectors operate. This technique allows for discontinuous wavelength tuning by temperature-jumping a laser diode from one range to another within a time span suitable for photoacoustic calibration. The...
Briefs: Information Technology
A recently developed method of constructing protograph-based low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes provides for low iterative decoding thresholds and minimum distances proportional to...
Briefs: Information Technology
Minimizing Input-to-Output Latency in Virtual Environment
A method and apparatus were developed to minimize latency (time delay) in virtual environment (VE) and other discrete-time computer-based systems that require real-time display in response to sensor inputs. Latency in such systems is due to the sum of the finite time required for information...
Briefs: Information Technology
PrimeSupplier Cross-Program Impact Analysis and Supplier Stability Indicator Simulation Model
PrimeSupplier, a supplier cross-program and element-impact simulation model, with supplier solvency indicator (SSI), has been developed so that the shuttle program can see early indicators of supplier and product line stability, while identifying the...
Briefs: Information Technology
Integrated Planning for Telepresence With Time Delays
A conceptual “intelligent assistant” and an artificial-intelligence computer program that implements the intelligent assistant have been developed to improve control exerted by a human supervisor over a robot that is so distant that communication between the human and the robot involves...
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