Reducing product development time and improving product quality while realizing costs savings no longer has to be a designer’s dream — or nightmare. Automation and the emergence of innovated and sophisticated CAD tools are helping to enable the type of rapid innovation needed to keep up with market demands in industries ranging from robotics, to […]
Aerospace & Defense
BMA connectors and adapters feature low VSWR
Pasternack has released a new line of 52 BMA connectors and adapters with maximum operating frequency of 22 GHz. They are designed for blind mating, rack and panels, phased array systems, RF backplanes and high-speed switching. This new product line is made up of 45 connectors with VSWR as low as 1.2:1, and 7 adapters […]
Security suite features advanced threat protection/data encryption in full air-gap mode
Dell announces an air gap version of its Dell Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise solution to address the need for highly-secure industries to keep their endpoints isolated from the internet, yet still deploy an advanced threat protection solution. The solution integrates Cylance technology using artificial intelligence and predictive mathematical models to help protect against advanced persistent […]
Price reduction for uninterruptible power sources widely used in military apps
Behlman Electronics Inc., known for its leadership in power products for military, industrial, and commercial applications, has been providing its RUPS-1250 Uninterruptible Power Source (UPS) to support many critical applications not possible with standard UPS units. Examples range from rack-mounted RUPS-1250 units installed on aircraft to supply battery-backed ground power; to installation in ground-based equipment […]
Mid-range FPGAs carry 100K to 550K logic elements
Microsemi Corporation today announced its PolarFire™ field programmable gate array (FPGA) engineering samples (ES) are available for ordering. The PolarFire FPGA family provides the lowest power, cost-optimized mid-range devices spanning from 100K logic elements (LEs) to 500K LEs. Its PolarFire Evaluation Kit, already shipping to key customers, is also available for ordering from the company and its distribution […]
Scalable PXI microwave signal generator produces complex waveforms for 5G, aero and defense wideband apps
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) today announced the industry’s first scalable PXIe microwave signal generator with frequency coverage up to 44 GHz and modulation bandwidth up to 1 GHz for generating complex waveforms used in emerging 5G and aerospace and defense DVT applications. Exclusive DDS technology with the synthesizer VCO provides excellent phase noise performance. When combined […]
Free-running reference oscillators span 10 MHz to 100 MHz with low phase noise
Pasternack has released six new free-running reference oscillators that generate a highly stable and accurate output frequency response with low phase noise and spurious performance levels, making them ideal in phase locked loops, function generators, frequency synthesizers and receivers for communication, radar, navigation, surveillance and test and measurement applications. These free-running, fixed-tuned oscillators use a high-stability […]
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Thin-film wire-bond resistors span 1Ω to 4 mΩ
AVX Corporation has released the new WBR Series thin film wire bond resistors. Diced to small 0202 (0.02” x 0.02”) chip outlines with extremely tight dimensional tolerances (±0.003”), WBR Series top-contact, bottom-isolated resistors are ruggedly constructed, rated for up to 250mW DC power, and deliver ultra-stable, high-reliability performance in low-profile packages. The series also offers customizable […]
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High-speed I/O processors sport 64-bit time-predictable and energy efficient cores
Kalray announced that it will launch the third-generation of its high-performance MPPA processor: the MPPA3 Coolidge. With the success of its second-generation MPPA2-256 Bostan processor, selected by numerous automotive and aeronautic OEMs and Tier1’s, Kalray has taken its unique manycore technology to the next level in terms of performance. The third-generation of the MPPA will be […]
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12-core Xeon-based controllers designed for aero mission computing needs
Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions division today announced the highest performance member of its industry-leading family of Parvus DuraCOR mission computers. The growing sophistication of defense and aerospace sensor payloads demands that mission computers deployed on air, land and maritime platforms have the processing power, memory capacity, and I/O flexibility needed to keep pace with huge quantities […]
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