In electronic hardware tests is an acronym for Highly Accelerated Life Testing. - It is similar to Environmental stress screening. /// Highly Accelerated Stress Screening -- a type of an environmental stress screening used to compress time scales in reliability engineering
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Switched Ethernet Broadens its Reach in Land, Sea and Air
Once relegated only to command and control systems in the military, Ethernet is now gaining traction in numerous other military applications. As a result, Ethernet switch boards areRead More...
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Advanced Low-Power PMC Supports Dual Graphics Heads A blend of graphics and video performance is vital for advanced sensor fusion, image/frame capture and recording inRead More...
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Green Hills OS Becomes World’s First to Receive EAL6+ Security Certification In a landmark milestone in the world of software security, Green Hills Software’s INTEGRITY-178B operatingRead More...
Multiprocessor-Specific Tools Enable Efficient Real-Time Development
Today there are numerous software development tool choices for aerospace and defense system programmers developing embedded real-time applications on single processor systems. But onceRead More...
Enhanced HALT Techniques Boost MTBF Prediction
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PC/104 and EPIC SBC Roundup
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VPX Delivers the Right Stuff for Mil Systems
With doubts of its acceptance in full retreat, the VPX rugged board architecture is poised to provide critical embedded system integrators a more capable module spec—one that enablesRead More...
Multicore Boards Roundup
6U CompactPCI Boards Sport Quad Core Xeons The multicore trend has hit all levels of processor families, and the Xeon is no exception. Concurrent Technologies has released theRead More...
Ethernet Gains Momentum as Fabric for VME, VXS and VPX Systems
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VPX and VXS Strike a Balance of Choices for Designers
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Stand-Alone Rugged Boxes Fine-Tune their Feature Sets
A trend has been building in the past couple of years where traditional embedded board vendors are adding stand-alone rugged box-level systems to their military market offerings. TheseRead More...
Shock and Vibe Testing Remains Critical for Military Systems
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Case Study: Box-Level System Undergoes MIL-STD-901D Shipboard Test
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HALT/HASS Testing Goes Beyond the Norm
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FLIR Systems Delivers First MEP Sensors for Small UAVs FLIR Government Systems, a division of FLIR Systems, recently delivered the first of three Mission Equipment Package (MEP)Read More...
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3U cPCI Board and Rack Family Satisfies Extreme Thermal Needs CompactPCI, particularly in its 3U flavor, is no longer the new kid on the block in the military market. It’s paidRead More...
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3U VPX SBC Sports Freescale MPC 8640D Processor There have been only a handful of SBC vendors so far that have rolled out VPX products. The ones that jumped on board haveRead More...
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COM Express Enables Powerful Small Form Factor Designs
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VPX Trade-Offs: Getting to Common Backplanes
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Controller Adds Graphics to StackableUSB USB for years went underutilized in military embedded applications. That’s starting to change as uses from the technology presentRead More...
Rethinking Shock and Vibration Testing Procedures
Military systems developers are tasked with delivering rugged electronics with superior durability within increasingly tight schedules. To meet these demanding requirements,Read More...
Rugged Ethernet Switch Boards Roundup
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