Signal integrity expert and dean of Teledyne-LeCroy’s Signal Integrity Academy, Eric Bogatin, was voted 2016 Engineer of the Year at the recent DesignCon in Santa Clara, California last week. Sponsored by National Instruments, the award is given to an engineer demonstrating leadership and commitment to high-speed digital design. Bogatin, based in Longmont, Colorado, has a long … [Read more...]
New USB 3.1 C-Type Connectors
The USB C-type connector, recently announced by Amphenol, is a reversible design that can pass 10 GB/s data. It also includes power, along with data connections. The full metal shield protects against EMI and ESD. For more, click here. … [Read more...]
Digital Power Control
A joint collaboration by Würth Electronics - Midcom, Infineon, and Biricha Digital has made a design kit to explore digital power control. The XMC Digital Power Explorer Kit offers two control cards based on ARM Cortex processors. Features include a synchronous buck converter, a high-resolution PWM, an on-board resistive load, and a PMBus communication option. For more, click … [Read more...]
Company to Help U.S. Army Modernize EMRE Test Complex
AR RF/Microwave Instrumentation announces it has been awarded a contract to provide large broadband RF amplifiers to the U.S. Army. The contract is part of the US Army Electromagnetic Environmental Effects Systems Modernization Program at White Sands Missile Range, Electromagnetic Radiation Effects (EMRE) test complex in New Mexico, according to the company. The company is … [Read more...]
French Security Firm: Hackers use Radio Waves to Hijack Smartphones
Security researchers have reportedly discovered that hackers can use radio waves to hijack data on Android smartphones and iPhones through Google Now and Siri. Hackers accomplish this by sending radio waves to the devices and tricking users into sending them information by responding to voice commands. “According to French security firm ANSSI, which made the discovery, the … [Read more...]
Universities Team up to Help Protect Nation’s Power Grid from Cyber Attacks
Researchers from FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing have teamed up with four other universities and a utility company to help protect the nation’s power grid from cyber attacks. “A cyber attack on any part of the nation’s power grid could leave millions of people without power, resulting in serious health and safety threats as well as a major economic blow. Working … [Read more...]
Self-Driving Car Tested on I-95
Recently, the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute demonstrated its automated vehicle technology on the I-95 Express Lanes in Virginia. According to officials at the institute and an administrator at the U.S. Department of Transportation, it is the first time that driverless technology this advanced has been tested on a highway. The demonstration was highly controlled … [Read more...]
Physicists Trace Origin of Electromagnetic Interaction
An international group of physicists have traced the origin of an electromagnetic interaction to the Dirac Equation, which is a fundamental equation of quantum physics. “The new finding, published as a rapid communication in the journal Physical Review B, advances the fundamental understanding of magnetic systems as well as multiferroics, which can change their electrical … [Read more...]
Russia Developing Drone that can see through Camouflage and Detect Hidden Objects
United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation, a corporation based in Russia, is building an all-seeing eye drone fitted with tech-forward technology that allows it to see beyond the human eye’s electromagnetic spectrum, giving it the ability to detect both hidden and camouflaged objects. The drone will advance technology for all types of military equipment. “The unmanned aerial … [Read more...]
China Producing World’s Largest Radio Telescope
A large engineering and scientific project in China, led by the country’s military-led space program, is creating the world’s largest radio telescope, which will be able to detect radio signals from tens of billions of light years away. The Telescope is known as FAST, which stands for Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope. When the project is complete, the dish on the … [Read more...]
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