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Reduced size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements are affecting every area of military designs especially RF and microwave solutions for electronic warfare (EW), signals intelligence (SIGINT), and radar applications. This E-cast of industry experts will cover how military electronics designers are solving SWaP challenges to enable multifunction, multi-platform systems.

IoT systems are a mash-up of many technologies that require embedded, network, and enterprise expertise coupled with industry domain insight. Within this challenging environment, it's never been more important to have an effective set of tools and techniques for creation of the right requirements for a successful project and managing them in a way that promotes collaboration and increased cross-functional communication.

Companies are updating their critical infrastructure, and safety has become a key issue, with increased regulation and risk of litigation driving the need for safety certification in industries such as aerospace, energy, industrial automation, medical, and robotics. One area of concern is partitioning safety certified and non-safe code and that's what we'll cover in Day 2 of this three-day course.

Safety-critical systems require some of the most stringent, time-consuming and expensive development and testing processes. Increasing functionality and connectivity has even driven up test and certification costs.

Some of the most famous information breaches over the past few years have been a result of entry through embedded and IoT system environments. Often these breaches are a result of unexpected system architecture and service connectivity on the network that allows the hacker to enter through an embedded device and make their way to the financial or corporate servers.

As the variety and complexity of communication systems in the modern RF battlefield increase, the need to quickly design, deploy and field upgrade spectrum monitoring and direction finding solutions becomes paramount. Software Defined Radio (SDR) platforms for these applications need to cover wide frequency ranges, process high bandwidth data in real-time, provide synchronization scalable across multiple channels, and support flexible development tools.

In this webinar, Sam Mirsky, Application Engineer at MathWorks, will discuss why and how to perform real-time simulation and testing, enabling you to rapidly and continuously test and prove your designs, from desktop simulation to testing your designs in real time on hardware platforms. .

Military electronics systems designers of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), systems, avionics, and other applications continue to face requirements for reduced size,weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) in their programs along with more and more pressure for quick turn arounds on their solutions. Time pressures only make innovation more difficult at the rugged embedded computing level.

Attend this webcast to learn how to verify the quality, reliability, and security of high-integrity software. You'll learn to do this thoroughly and efficiently using automated static code analysis based on formal methods.

Many of the feats accomplished by modern military radar and electronic warfare (EW) systems are enabled by commercial technology -- from the signal processors to FPGAs, to analog to digital converters and digital to analog converters, to the board and system level. Cognitive EW and multifunctional systems that marry radar and EW processing capability in one box are some of the innovations fueled by these open architecture and commercial-off-the-shelf designs.

Active safety systems (and eventually, autonomous vehicles) rely on a range of technologies to ensure safe, reliable operation, including radar ICs of various frequencies, LiDAR units, high-resolution 360 camera systems, and more. Powerful processors/electronics control units (ECUs) and sophisticated software algorithms are also required to fuse these data inputs in real-time so that drivers (and cars themselves) can make split-second decisions that could prevent accidents.

More than 60 percent of a new vehicle's cost comes from its advanced electronics and software systems. Since many of the human-machine interface (HMI) functions guided by these electronic systems are mission-critical, it's essential that all automotive systems work together with complete reliability.

These days, almost anything involving a device connected to a mobile or cloud application is being called an Internet of Things (IoT) application. Examples like smart home and retail applications leverage a combination of sensors, gateways, and cloud application to implement measurement and analysis applications.

There are challenges in achieving high precision and accurate sensing at low to high flow rates in metering applications such as flow meters as well as distance measurement and level detection applications. Ultrasonic sensing technology is outstanding at measuring flow velocity and using an integrated analog-to-digital converter (ADC) provides the ability to accurately measure flow even at the lowest rates.

Don't confuse the Internet of Things (IoT) with the Industrial IoT (IIoT), which typically has much more stringent characteristics. That's because the IIoT usually involves some sort of manufacturing, robotics, or other mission-critical application, where down-time can be measured in dollars, often lots of them.