68 The PCB Magazine • October 2017
All About Flex: Flexible Circuits and
Man-Made Satellites
The first satellite was launched by the USSR in
1957. The U.S. successfully launched its first sat-
ellite, Explorer 1, in 1958 while announcing the
intention to "win" the race to outer space. Today
satellites serve many vital purposes.
Let's Talk Testing: Professor Plum in the
Library with the Candlestick…Right?
Who knew that a phrase from a decades-old pop-
ular board game could have some relevance in to-
day's ever-changing world? In the game of Clue,
simply put, evidence is collected and then used to
solve a mystery. In my world, testing is performed
to gather data/results (evidence) and then this in-
formation is used to determine the root cause of
some issue that is under investigation (solving the
mystery).
Saab and Adani to Collaborate on
Aerospace and Defense Projects in India
Defense and security company Saab and Indi-
an infrastructure conglomerate Adani Group an-
nounced a collaboration plan within aerospace
and defense in India, aligned with the Govern-
ment of India's Make in India initiative.
AT&S Enables "Cool" Designs for
Miniaturized High-Power Applications
Miniaturization and increasing power densities
are major concerns for modern electronic applica-
tions. The lifetime of electronic applications can be
dramatically reduced by the increase of the work-
ing temperatures by just a few degrees.
The International Paris Air Show
with ASC's Anaya Vardya
The International Paris Air show is the crème de la
crème of the world's trade shows. This is the big
one, where all the aircraft, airline and defense aero-
space companies meet to introduce new products,
discuss the future of aviation, and make deals. This
year I decided to talk to my friend Anaya Vardya,
ASC's president and CEO, about the show, why he
goes, and what it's like.
Thin, Flexible Device Could Provide
Efficient Cooling for Mobile Electronics—
or People
Engineers and scientists from UCLA, and SRI In-
ternational, a nonprofit research and development
organization, have created a thin flexible device
that could keep smartphones and laptop comput-
ers cool and prevent overheating.
New Cadence Allegro DesignTrue DFM
Technology Accelerates New Product
Development and Introduction Process
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced Ca-
dence Allegro DesignTrue DFM technology, the
industry's first solution to perform real-time,
in-design DFM checks integrated with electrical,
physical and spacing design rule checks.
DARPA Rolls out Electronics Resurgence
Initiative
Transformative advances in electronics will come
from a combination of six new programs, a port-
folio of existing ones, and the country's largest
funding program for basic university research in
electronics.
Tracking Debris in Earth's Orbit with
Centimeter Precision using Efficient
Laser Technology
A research team at the Fraunhofer Institute for Ap-
plied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Jena,
Germany, has now especially developed a fiber la-
ser that reliably determines the position and direc-
tion of the space debris' movement to mitigate as-
sociated risks.
Increase in Aircraft Orders and
Real-Time Data Need Drive Growth
in Avionics Market
With NextGen and SESAR set for completion this
decade, the global commercial avionics market is
undergoing a transition from a ground-based sys-
tem to a satellite-based air traffic control system
and is headed towards more compute-intensive,
high-speed, and high-bandwidth avionics.
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