Editor's Note New Products IP Cores Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Condor Engineering now offers its CORE-1553 and CORE-MMSI intellectual property (IP) cores for programmable logic devices. CORE-1553 is a downloadable…
ATM Modernization Perspectives: Accelerating Free Flight Imagine never again experiencing a flight delay. Imagine flying from point A to point B via the most direct route possible. Impossible? Not really. We…
Business & GA Chips That Think: RF Design In the 1980s radio frequency (RF) engineers developed microwave and millimeter-wave integrated circuits that revolutionized the reliability and controllability of RF systems, while significantly reducing…
ATM Modernization Nav Canada Towers–Big and Small Of all the ground facilities in aviation’s total infrastructure, few are more interesting than airport control towers. Whether serving smaller communities or large metroplexes, airport…
ATM Modernization Safety: Safety vs. Entertainment There is a saying in the nation’s capital that "money is policy." Which is to say, ignore all the declaratory political rhetoric and look to…
ATM Modernization System Design: Evaporating Data Recently, we have seen evidence in our shop of a disturbing fault trend that merits wider discussion in the avionics community. My coworkers and I…