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    Online Design Help for Enclosures and Front Panels

    Friday, June 4th, 2010

    XTech’s online store just got a lot better. Customers can now access a wide array of design resources like drawings and 3D models. In addition, the number of products available for purchase in the online store has increased dramatically.

    Do you need an extruded enclosure? A standard front panel? A filler panel? No problem. The types [...]

    The Reliability Cycle: Understanding the Booms and Busts of Reliability in Electronics

    Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

    The following article was written by my colleague Craig Hillman, CEO of DfR Solutions.
    The Cycle of Reliability
    The Past
    Those who interact closely with DfR realize that we proscribe to the theory of the ‘reliability cycle’. The early years of electronics, 1950’s and 1960’s, were disasters for reliability and led to the establishment of the organizations and [...]

    xTCA Front-Panel Innovation

    Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

    Extrusion Technology (X-Tech) out of Randolph, MA has released a video providing an overview of their innovation in xTCA products.
    Steve Richardson and Matt Travers discuss how this has been applied to their AdvancedTCA, AMC, MicroTCA, and Ruggedized MicroTCA products.
    The link to the video is here.

    Embedded Systems Q&A

    Friday, February 20th, 2009

    1. What is an “embedded system”?
    An embedded system is basically any device that has an internal computing architecture designed to handle a specific application.  This applies to any type of processor and operating system, so can be anything from an ARM platform running Linux or an RTOS to a full x86 implementation running Windows.  This contrasts [...]

    Where to Find Great Design

    Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

    One of the most exciting aspects of product development is product design. When entrepreneurs and inventors begin to translate their ideas into reality, they often contract with a professional design group for some or all of the design. Even large companies with their own engineering and design capabilities will often contract out some part of [...]

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