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ON Semiconductor Awarded Title III Government Funding for Development of Advanced Next-Generation Star Tracker Image Sensor
Working in cooperation with SRI International and Ball Aerospace, the companies will develop a monolithic CMOS image sensor meeting the STELLAR specification ON Semiconductor
New Rugged SBC Offers Flexible I/O for High Data Processing in Compact Displays
X-ES Shipping World's Smallest, Highest Performance Rugged COM Express Module
Microchip Technology Announces Record Net Sales and Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2013 Financial Results
MEMS Industry Group’s ‘Sensor Performance Parameter Definitions’ Empowers Consumer-Platform Developers
Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions Expands Family of Rugged Xilinx® Kintex™ FPGA-based Analog I/O XMC Cards
Microsemi Expands Power Management Portfolio With New Radiation-hardened Isolated DC-DC Converters
New InfiniBand® Switch from GE Provides Higher Throughput for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Applications
Multicore DevCon 2013: Call for Presentations Dedicated to Developers Using Multicore and Virtualization Technologies
Curtiss-Wright Controls Awarded Contract by Northrop Grumman

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Big Iron Conundrums
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Chipnastics
New Processor Core Options Try Some ARM Wrestling
When designing a system on a chip (SoC) that employs one or more embedded processor cores, the choice...
JB’s Circuit
Long Standards, Twinkie IP, Macro Trends, and Patent Trolls
In Part II, IP Extreme’s Savage reveals why IP standards take so long while discussing brand values,...
Chris A. Ciufo on All Things Embedded
Intel vs GM: What’s In Store for Intel’s New CEO, President
Today chip giant Intel announced outgoing CEO Paul Otellini’s replacement: he’s Brian Krzanich,...

Google And NASA Launch Quantum Computing Lab / (Mocana Device Blog)
NASA and Google have partnered to create a new quantum-computer-based artificial intelligence lab in California. According to Technology Review, the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab will feature the most advanced commercially available quantum computer, the D-Wave Two. It will be installed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing...
Google And NASA Launch Quantum Computing Lab / (Mocana Device Blog)
NASA and Google have partnered to create a new quantum-computer-based artificial intelligence lab in California. According to Technology Review, the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab will feature the most advanced commercially available quantum computer, the D-Wave Two. It will be installed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing...
RAID 5 - How Much Usable Space do I Have / (Consumerization: BYOD)
Hello, I've finally gotten around to setting up my backup and file server, inside it has a set of hard drives which I've recovered from various computers. The drives are all in good condition, and are sized as: * SDA - 320.1 GB * SDB - 250.1 GB * SDC ......
Intel vs GM: What’s In Store for Intel’s New CEO, President / (Chris A. Ciufo on All Things Embedded)
Today chip giant Intel announced outgoing CEO Paul Otellini’s replacement: he’s Brian Krzanich, former Intel COO and likely an Intel lifer. As Otellini bids goodbye at the annual stockholders’ meeting on May 16, Krzanich moves in as the company’s sixth … Continue reading →...

M2M Promises Growth for Embedded, Wireless, Sensors, and More
The machine-to-machine (M2M) phenomenon is accelerating and is coming to just about any connected technology near you. Chris Ciufo, Senior Editor Similar to many
The Art of DRAM Module Testing
If there are no challenges to produce memory modules, why are there differences in quality and price?
The Convergence of M2M and Positioning
GPS has got you covered, unless you're inside, underground, or out of satellite range. Next-gen cognitive augmentation solutions overcome satellite-only line-of-sight limitations.
State of the PC/104 Consortium
New PCIe Gen 2 and Gen 3 support announced.
The smaller VITA 73 Small Form Factor and MicroATR chassis
Inspired by a 2.5-inch disk drive, VITA 73's "MicroATR" box is really tiny...and rugged.
Mini Case Study: Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Debut on Rugged Tablets
Portability provides flexibility for field maintenance, CAD, and other uses.
Practical Applications of Cloud Computing in Semiconductor Chip Design
Cloud computing will play an increasingly significant role in FPGA designs because the benefits to designers are tremendous. Chip design engineers face a myriad of challenges in
A Short Study on Wear Leveling, part 1
Flash memories wear out, but there are ways to minimize their demise, from application changes to file system software.
Fundamental Laws of (FPGA) Nature: Similar, Yet Different
Lattice and Xilinx muse on parallelism, partial reconfigurability, and the state-of-the-art in IP and EDA tools.
Solving Today's Design Security Concerns
Here's a practical primer on what designers need to know when using FPGAs.

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San Diego Convention Center Nov 18 – Nov 20, 2013

Cobalt Model 53662 4-Channel 200 MHz A/D with 32-Channel DDC with Virtex-6 FPGA - 3U VPX
Complete radar and software radio interface solution Supports Xilinx Virtex-6 LXT and SXT FPGAs Four 200 MHz 16-bit A/Ds Four multiband DDCs (digital downconverters)
InfiniBand's The Rage in Small, Deployable HPEC
The SWaP-C trend continues unabated as ever more C4ISR, SIGINT, SDR and radar/sonar processing applications demand TeraFLOP computing in rugged, compact systems.
Extension Media Interview with Microchip's Joe Drzewiecki
Editor Chris Ciufo spent time with Microchip software manager Joe Drzewiecki at the Spring DESIGN West show (formerly known as ESC). Microchip launched their new MPLAB X compiler strategy that now goes across all Microchip MCUs. It also adds a new license strategy, optimizations that compile 35 percent faster on 32-bit devices (or save 35 percent on code size). There's also a "totally free" version of the MPLAB X compiler. Check out the 3 minute video.
Texas Instruments' DESIGN West interview: From ANT to ZigBee
At DESIGN West 2012 (aka "ESC" San Jose), Senior Editor Chris A. Ciufo sat down with TI's Matt Kurtz, Manager, Wireless Connectivity Group. Matt's group's job is to add wireless capabilities to microcontrollers with "everything from ANT to ZigBee". Consider their SimpleLink initiative, which is comprised of chipsets, protocols, APIs and drivers that make easy the task of adding wireless to a TI microcontroller product. In this short video, Matt explains that TI's focus is one-stop-shopping and simplicity. Judging from market feedback, TI has met its goals.
Pentek's RTR 2746 Offers Ruggedized Real-Time Analog Recording and Analysis for Unmanned Vehicles
The RTR 2746 provides real-time 16-bit data capture on multiple simultaneous channels using 200 MHz ADCs and can play back recorded data through 1.25 GHz 16-bit DACs to reproduce the captured signal. Handling signal bandwidths to 80 MHz, the instrument includes built-in digital up- and down-converters that allow a direct interface to IF signal frequencies up to 700 MHz. The instrument supports up to eight data channels with a customer-specified mix of recording and playback capabilities. Link: http://www.pentek.com/go/2746video
The Radisys COM Express Family of Extended Temp Products
Product Line Manager, Lorraine Orcino, introduces the Radisys COM Express family of extended temp products
RadiSys Milaero Markets & Applications: An Overview
Clarence Peckham of RadiSys gives an overview of the markets and applications that are a focus for RadiSys. Hear why ATCA is the ideal platform for high performance, COTS-based solutions and how COM Express is the best choice for mobile or hand-held applications.

Achieving DO-178C Compliance
DO-178C is the how-to manual for complying with Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR), which outlines the software development requirements for FAA approval. This paper focuses on specific processes, such as verification and validation activities, traceability, testing methods, and test environments described in DO-178C.
Rugged GPGPUs for UAV Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR)
Small light-weight UAV SAR have always been a compromise between size, weight, and power, with capability and real-time actionable intelligence. Traditional digital signal processing technologies processing capability struggles to meet small light weight UAV SAR mission requirements in a timely fashion. Rugged COTS GPGPU boards with their impressive processing capability will disrupt the traditional methods of creating and designing SARs for light-weight UAVs.
Automated Target Tracking
This paper explores the ramifications of real-time autonomous vehicle performance in cluttered environments. It analyzes the gap between the predictable and the unpredictable, introduces real object tracing, explores the benefits and pitfalls of real-time moving object tracking and introduces possible solutions for uninterrupted operation of autonomous vehicles.
Software Defined Radio Handbook, Ninth Edition
Pentek offers board and system-level SDR products that include digital downconverters, upconverters and transceivers for a complete SDR solution.
VPX for High-Performance Avionic Computers
Traditional high-performance computing platforms are limited by the connection bandwidth and latency between the multiple computing elements needed to achieve the performance targets. For the embedded market, the difficulty is compounded by the demanding environmental requirements. The VPX standard resolves this limitation with a large number of high-throughput point-to-point connections between the processing elements in a rugged mechanical structure.
New Technology Enables a Chip Scale Atomic Clock
More than a miniaturized version of bigger clocks, Symmetricom’s CSAC SA.45s is a reinvention — the world’s first Chip Scale Atomic Clock. Learn why a chip scale atomic clock with such small size and low power consumption is enabling a new class of atomic clock applications defined by portability, including semiconductor laser technology, silicon processing, vacuum packaging, and firmware algorithms. This paper examines the Symmetricom CSAC SA.45s — its innovative technology, product features, performance specs, example applications and more.
Designing For Low Power
Power consumption is becoming an increasingly important variable when it comes to calculating OPEX and carbon footprint for telecom infrastructure projects.

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