Have Suspect Counterfeit ESD Packaging & Materials Infiltrated the Aerospace & Defense Supply Chain? Bob Vermillion, CPP, Fellow Certified ESD & Product Safety Engineer - iNARTE RMV Technology Group, LLC NASA-Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA 94035 According to the 12 February 2016 edition of the EE Times, President … [Read more...]
Blue Guide for EU Product Rules Available
The European Union’s (EU) “Blue Guide” describes general rules for placing electronic products on the market within the EU. It describes how the EU regulates the free movement of goods, when the harmonization rules apply, the product supply chain and their obligations, product requirements, conformity assessment, and accreditation. The document goes on to describe how market … [Read more...]
Simulation Software Upgrade Released
Savant and EMIT work in conjunction with ANSYS® HFSS™ software, enabling users to optimize a complete workflow to simulate the entire electromagnetic environment, including antenna synthesis and design, installed antenna performance and RF system analysis. The new releases of Savant and EMIT feature significant advances in solver technology, design flow automation and … [Read more...]
New Canted Gaskets Certification Tested for High Current Applications
Bal Seal Engineering, Inc. has subjected its Bal Spring™ canted coil springs to third-party testing to demonstrate how well the springs withstand KEMA’s rigorous short circuit current exposure and cycling. The results will enable the company to provide customers with verified performance data, including continuous, short-circuit and peak current ratings and electrical … [Read more...]
New RF Analyzers Quickly Capture Large Scans
AaroniaUSA.com has introduced the SPECTRAN V5 real-time RF spectrum analyzers, which is designed to capture pulsed signals as short as 1 us. The unit can capture scans up to 20 GHz in less than 20mS (requires option 160), making the SPECTRAN V5 is one of the fastest handheld RF spectrum analyzer. The unit is available in four different form factors and in a variety of … [Read more...]
How Hedy Lamarr Invented Early Frequency-Hopping Technology
(By Kenneth Wyatt) A recent article by Intel describes how actress, Hedy Lamarr helped invent the first frequency-hopping anti-jamming system for torpedoes. The article describes, "A lonely immigrant from Austria slips out of her stage clothes and kicks off her heels. Carefully removing her movie makeup, she’s dissatisfied that she’s been overlooked for more significant … [Read more...]
Special Webinar on Spectrum Analyzers Available
Spectrum Analyzer Fundamentals - Part I, presented by Bill Kardine, Application Engineer, of Rohde & Schwarz, is a recorded webinar that covers the architecture of a spectrum analyzer and provides a detailed description of each function, how it works, and what impact they have on the measurement results. Typical spectrum analyzer measurements such as channel power, … [Read more...]
U.S. NAVY Developing Wave Energy Conversion Device
The U.S. NAVY is researching a device that will convert wave motion to electricity to power emergency equipment in life rafts. The “Lifesaver", a ring-shaped buoy, is being tested to obtain operational data on this particular ocean renewable energy conversion technology. The buoy converts energy generated by passing waves into electrical energy. The Lifesaver project was … [Read more...]
North Korea Interferes with GPS Navigation Systems
Newsweek reported South Korean officials have accused North Korea of using radio waves to interfere with GPS navigation systems near the border between the two countries. This apparently occurred just after North Korea fired a short-range missile into the East Sea. South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency referred to this as an act of “defiance against mounting pressure to give up its … [Read more...]
Fast Radio Burst "Afterglow" Is Actually Flickering Black Hole
Harvard University reported that last February a team of astronomers reported detecting an “afterglow" from a mysterious event called a fast radio burst "which would pinpoint the precise position of the burst's origin." "New research by Harvard astronomers Peter Williams and Edo Berger shows that the radio emission believed to be an afterglow actually originated from a distant … [Read more...]
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