St. Louis —Design anywhere, build anywhere, in less time and at lower cost. Those are key goals of aerospace engineering for aircraft, missiles, and spacecraft — and...
The NewView 5000 noncontact 3-D surface profiler from Zygo measures media surfaces nondestructively with no sample preparation required. A precision vertical scanning transducer...
Tactical missile designers from Raytheon Co. in Lexington, Mass., needed high-speed analog-to-digital (A-D) converter modules to help them upgrade electronic subsystems in the...
One high-resolution profiler for the disk industry is the MP2200 from Chapman Instruments, designed to be used as both a disk-production tool for production-floor in-line quality...
Commercial technology continues to make the U.S. military the most advanced in the world at a competitive price. However, designers of defense platforms that need to last 20 to...
Engineers at Delfin Systems, a Titan company in Santa Clara, Calif., needed a precise navigational system for a vehicle-mounted radio direction-finder system called the Interim...
Systems engineers at the Northrop Grumman Electronic Sensors and Systems Sector in Baltimore needed a way to acquire and store data from tests of an automated target recognition...
Engineers at the Lockheed Martin Astronautics division in Denver needed data-acquisition and telemetry systems to support the Atlas V rocket. They found their answer in the Automated...
For fast measurement of pole-tip recession, Veeco Metrology Group`s Wyko HD3500 optical profiler uses a 100-× Linnick objective, computer-controlled stages, and advanced analysis...
Another instrument used to measure disk media is the OptiFLAT substrate tester from ADE Phase Shift. Using white light, the tool measures the front-surface flatness of plane-parallel...
MONTREAL — Officials at simulation and design specialist Virtual Prototypes in Montreal have joined hands with experts at Telelogic AB in Malmo, Sweden, to create an embedded...
Surface profiling, or the inspection of microscopic surface features on media, measures such details as pole-tip recession and air-bearing surface flatness. Early on, profilers...
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — Engineers at Vista Controls, a Lau Defense Systems company, have field tested their mil-spec GPCP 750 (general purpose control processor) single-board...
NEPEAN, Ontario — The North Atlantic Treaty Organization`s fleet of Boeing E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft will use the 2010-AM(A) flat panel...
WASHINGTON — COTScon East 2000, the third annual conference and exhibition dedicated to electronic systems design with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components and software...
Military technology leaders are shelving government photonics research, and are relying on an ever-robust commercial industry to speed the flow of data by converting electrons...
OTTAWA — Experts at of Interactive Circuits & Systems (ICS) in Ottawa, Ontario, are designing the next generation of the Front Panel Data Port (FPDP) specification, dubbed...
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. — Engineers at Peripheral Equipment Corp. (PEC) in Westlake Village, Calif., are being forced to switch glass suppliers and reduce the sizes of their...
Designers at Primagrahics of Litlington, Nr. Royston, England, are offering a ruggedized convection-cooled commercial-off-the-shelf air transport rack (ATR) that meets ARINC Specificati...
Experts at Aeroflex Circuit Technology in Plainview, N.Y., are releasing a new MIPS microprocessor multichip module (MCM) for military and high-reliability applications. The new...
Engineers at Synergy Microsystems in San Diego are offering their new Motorola MPC7400 G4 PowerPC microprocessor on all of their PowerPC-based VME and CompactPCI single-board ...
Leaders of Texas Instruments Inc. in Sherman, Texas, are incorporating the former Unitrode military products into the Texas Instruments Semiconductor Military Products Division...
Practitioners of the Ada computer language are enjoying a renaissance of sorts after enduring years of flat markets, failed expectations, industry derision, and outright abandonment...
Engineers at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, are developing a geo- location system to enable soldiers in the field to communicate, exchange files, and conduct videoconferences...
Designers at Radstone Technology in Towcester, England, are announcing a compact Flash memory adapter in PCI mezzanine card (PMC) format called the PMCF2. The new cards come in...
ROANOKE, Va. — When ITT opened its production facility here in 1958, it`s not likely that anybody thought much about future consumer products or other non-military opportunities...
Engineers at the U.S. Army Tobyhanna Army Depot in Tobyhanna, Pa., are building 200 multilayer circuit cars for the tube Launched, Optically Tracked, Wire Command-Link Guided ...
TOWCESTER, England — Officials at General Dynamics Defense Systems in Pittsfield, Mass., are using the FDDI-1 (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) controller from Radstone ...
Burleigh`s Horizon profilometer uses optical interferometric technology to nondestructively measure disk surface topography. The Horizon has two modes: Smooth mode can measure...
Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M., needed a virtual reality-type display system to help them with a variety of graphics and visualization experiments...
Engineers at the Northrop Grumman Corp. B-2 Division Integrated Systems and Aerostructurs Sector in Pico Rivera, Calif., needed test instrumentation for the B-2 stealth bomber...
A stylus-type profiler from Veeco Metrology Group, the Dektak V 200-Si, is aimed at measuring step heights on thin-film head wafers, sliders, and tape, along with surface texture...
Systems designers at several prominent defense and electronics companies had a common problem: they needed small integrated devices that not only control power, but also that ...
A high-resolution profiler, the KLA-Tencor HRP-100 combines long-scan capability with the fine-area imaging capabilities of an atomic force microscope.
