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There’s a special art to designing the proper EMI shielding for a system. Because every scenario is unique, getting the adequate protection means a lot of custom modifications to enclosures.

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Unmanned ground vehicles have done exemplary duty in the last decade. But as the DoD’s goals for UGVs align with military robotics technology advances, new sets of vital capabilities lay ahead.

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Ethernet is becoming entrenched as a favorite interconnect fabric in compute-intensive applications like sonar, radar or any application that networks sensor arrays together.

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Conduction Cooled SBC in EMX Form Factor Sports Atom E680T

A rugged EMX Basic single board computer (SBC) is based on the Intel Atom E680T CPU running at 1.6 GHz, and features dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, four serial ports and four USB 2.0 ports. The Altair from Diamond Systems is also the first SBC to implement the new EmbeddedXpress (EMX) stackable I/O standard. EmbeddedXpress is a new form factor specification for embedded computers introduced by Diamond Systems that defines anRead More...


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