Volume 11, Issue 4

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WASHINGTON - The changes that are sweeping the military and aerospace electronics industry are a subset of forces, still relatively ill defined, that are remaking what we call...
April 1, 2000
With the ever-increasing pace of commercial electronics and computer technology, it has become mandatory to base military electronics products on cost-sensitive commercial off...
April 1, 2000
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LEESBURG, Va. -- Ixthos officials claim their new VME CHAMP-AVa digital signal processor (DSP) board, based on the Motorola AltiVec chip, can function as a rugged, conduction-...
April 1, 2000
I am writing to comment on the article on page 1 of your February 2000 edition regarding the hard lessons PEC learned in attempting to employ NEC's 20.1-inch Liquid Crystal Display...
April 1, 2000
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CAMDEN, N.J. - Engineers at Recon/Optical Inc. in Barrington, Ill., recently replaced a tape device with a solid-state recorder from L-3 Communication Systems-East on their CA...
April 1, 2000
WASHINGTON - The designated theme of this year's International Radar Conference, sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is global perspective...
April 1, 2000
SAN DIEGO - Printed circuit board market forecasters are at-odds on many issues, but for the most part they all agree on one point: the market for CompactPCI boards is heading...
April 1, 2000
PASCAGOULA, Miss. - Commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) electronics are likely to play a large factor in the design of the U.S. Navy's next-generation destroyer, DD-21, which industry...
April 1, 2000
BILLERICA, Mass. - Engineers at the CSP Inc. (CSPI) MultiComputer Division are using the SAGE design tool from Honeywell Space Systems in Clearwater, Fla., to save their 2000 ...
April 1, 2000
Removing long military development and procurement cycles from a new vehicle can have a significant influence on how engineers approach creating an avionics system that takes ...
April 1, 2000
Linux is gaining market share and momentum, while a real-time version of the open-source operating system is hitting the industry and causing real-time stalwarts VxWorks and LynxOS...
April 1, 2000
Designers and users of aviation electronics face daunting obsolescence issues as they try to bridge the old mil-spec era with the new commercial off-the-shelf world to keep equipment...
April 1, 2000
WASHINGTON - Top commanders in the U.S. military services plan to spend more than $4.7 billion next year to procure electronics and communications equipment to support activities...
April 1, 2000
PLEASANTON, Calif. - Officials at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., are asking engineers at CPU Tech to develop a way to design commercial processors...
April 1, 2000
CHELMSFORD, Mass. - Leaders of Sky Computers Inc. are shifting focus almost entirely toward military markets with the company's commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) boards.
April 1, 2000