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U.S. Army is Looking for a Few Good Nanotechnologies

Posted by Ken Cheung in Industrial on Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Over on EE Times, is an article about the U.S. Army searching for ways to improve armor on vehicles that have been a prime target for improvised explosives and roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan. A requirement for lightweight ground vehicles is the ability to join different materials when adding armor.
Reactive Nanotechnologies Inc. has been [...]

Too Much Industrial Control Data

Posted by Ken Cheung in Industrial on Monday, June 26, 2006

Real-time processing that can handle higher volumes of data has become critical in industrial-control design. From complete factories down to the individual electromechanical device, real-time data acquisition is critical to the control and feedback that lie at the heart of automation. While advanced VLSI technology offers ever higher performance, it is also enabling increasingly sophisticated [...]

Hard Real-Time with Windows XP Article

Posted by Ken Cheung in Industrial on Monday, May 15, 2006

Check out the Hard Real-Time with Windows XP article on Embedded Star. Phoenix Contact created a Soft PLC with the convenience of the Windows(R) XP interface on the user side, while at the same time providing hard real-time by utilizing the Windows(R) CE real-time operating system – all running on a single Intel XXX based [...]

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