Once the realm of science fiction, directed energy weapons – laser, RF, sonic, etc. – are becoming a key element for military forces worldwide. They will be force multipliers on the battlefield, but they still present many technological hurdles for designers to overcome – especially with managing po...

The automotive industry has already embraced virtualization in digital cockpit designs and driver assistance modules. The massive cloud computing market emerged due to the potential found in virtualization technology. However, the traditional embedded markets of industrial control and medical device...

Industrial Drives are used in a variety of environments that expose the semiconductors used in the drives to harsh gases in addition to needing to last extended lifetimes. Currently, the most commonly used semiconductor power modules are gel-filled that experience reliability and robustness issues...

Certification authorities and industry suppliers have invested in numerous studies and discussions over recent years to identify the issues multicore processors pose for safety critical systems. Formalized positions of these efforts are the FAA CAST-32A Positioning Paper. The crux of this paper (r...