RoHS Two Years Later

Ensuring Reliability in Spite of RoHS and WEEE

Doug Patterson, Aitech Defense Systems

July 2008

Now that the European Union’s RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) and WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) directives are in place, it’s vital to understand theRead More...

Managing DMSMS

Tech Advances Fuel Increasing DMSMS Challenges

Willie Brown, Director of Obsolescence Management Services, MTI, an MTC Technologies Company

January 2008

For some time now, the U.S. Military has faced many of the constraints long familiar to commercial businesses including competition for scarce resources—in this case a share of theRead More...

POSIX Fuels Portability, Reusability for Defense Apps

Arun Subbarao, V.P. of Engineering, LynuxWorks

October 2007

High levels of complexity and real-time responsiveness rank high as priorities in military and avionics system designs. In the past, the solution for these demanding environmentsRead More...

Modular Strategy Eases Airborne Motor Control Woes

Michael Toland, Aerospace and Defense Marketing Manager, International Rectifier

August 2007

Today’s manufacturers of manned and unmanned military aircraft are under pressure to achieve improved performance while at the same time lower operating costs. In those efforts,Read More...

Virtualized Strategy Smooths Military System Development

Paul McLellan, Vice President of Marketing, Virtutech

March 2007

Over the past few decades, the number of lines of code in a typical military electronic system has increased a hundredfold. Take, for example, a 1960s-era jet fighter, which containedRead More...

Software Modernization Is Key to Controlling Costs, Complexity

Dave Wood, Aonix

July 2006

The ongoing rapid evolution of hardware capabilities and capacities presents a double-edged sword for mission-critical applications. Hardware advancements boost functionality andRead More...

Drifts and Calibration: Fine Tuning Data Acq

Stephen Wenner and Myron A. Semack, RTD Embedded Technologies

November 2005

Long gone are the days when data acquisition involved a person manually monitoring and writing down the status of some process to be analyzed later. Today, complex processes requireRead More...

Extending the Life of Mission-Critical ICs

Edwin Slipher, QP Semiconductor

November 2005

Military-grade systems pose significant product lifecycle challenges. Military electronic components are simply not used in the volumes that commercial components are used. PersonalRead More...