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Electronic Trends Podcast - David Jedynak

Electronic Engineering Podcast - David Jedynak

On Electronic Engineering Jounal's podcast program Fish Fry, host Amelia Dalton speaks with David Jedynak of Curtiss-Wright about the past, present, and future of VITA standards.

03/27/2024
A Tour of VITA AFT Cooling Standards in 2023

A Tour of VITA AFT Cooling Standards in 2023

For critical and intelligent deployed embedded modules, air-flow-through (AFT) cooling describes an approach that brings the coolant much closer to heat-generating electronics than standard conduction-cooled approaches.

08/03/2023
Military Embedded Systems

SOSA Technical Standard Will Benefit Systems of all Kinds

The standards currently being defined by the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Consortium will deliver many clear benefits to system integrators designing embedded sensor-processing systems. The SOSA Technical Standard will define common pinouts that foster and ease interoperability.

02/05/2021
Military & Aerospace Electronics

Radiation Tolerance Meets Commercial Space

The wave of commercially developed communications and remote-sensing satellites seeks to balance costs, capability, size, weight, and power consumption in the latest new space designs.

06/20/2020
Military Embedded Systems

Contested Space, Small Sats, and the Gamble on COTS in Space

Contested space, where nations compete for military dominance outside Earth’s atmosphere, is driving many military space platforms, but commercial space and small satellites continue to change the way the military suppliers of space electronics approach radiation-hardened component design from testing to deployment.

06/04/2020
Military Embedded Systems

Today’s Spacecraft and Satellite Requirements Giving COTS a Fresh Look

The fast growth of small satellites and their lower life cycle and launch costs has created a sizable market for low-cost electronic components that have radiation-resistant characteristics.

06/24/2019
Mil Tech Insider

It’s Time for VITA 47: Raise the Bar on Defining Ruggedization, Reliability

Aaron Frank and Ivan Straznicky look at VITA 47 for ruggedization and reliability. The VITA Standards Organization’s ANSI/VITA 47 targets the Environments, Design and Construction, Safety, and Quality for Plug-In Units.

06/08/2017
Intelligent Aerospace

Lowering the Cost of Spacecraft Avionics with Radiation-Tolerant COTS Electronics

The risk of failure for avionics equipment on-board spacecraft due to radiation exposure is a critical issue for launchers, re-entry vehicles, space habitats and satellites

05/19/2017