In this issue, Military Embedded Systems hosts an online roundtable with avionics software experts, discussing military avionics technology, design trends, and challenges.The panelists discuss the complexities of multicore architectures, safety-certification challenges, securing of flight-control systems, and how modular open system approach (MOSA) initiatives like The Open Group’s Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Technical Standard impact military manned and unmanned avionics.
Our panelists are Dr. Benjamin Brosgol, member of the senior technical staff at AdaCore; Gary Gilliland, technical marketing manager, DDC-I; Will Keegan, chief technical officer, Lynx Software Technologies; and Alex Wilson, director of A&D solutions, Wind River.
Power/Performance Bits: March 8
Non-toxic, printable piezoelectric; GaN MEMS resonator; verifying software models.
Non-toxic, printable piezoelectric
Researchers at RMIT University and University of New South Wales developed a flexible and printable piezoelectric material that could be used in self-powered electronics including wearables and implantables.
“Until now, the best performing nano-thin piezoelectrics have been based on lead, a toxic material that is not suitable for biomedical use,” said Dr Nasir Mahmood, a Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow at RMIT. “Our new material is based on non-toxic zinc oxide, which is also lightweight and compatible with silicon, making it easy to integrate into current electronics. It’s so efficient that all you need is a single 1.1 nanometer layer of our material to produce all the energy required for a fully self-powering nanodevice.”