Protection for satellite electronics

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A research team at Sandia National Laboratories and a consortium headed by the Defense Special Weapons Agency (DSWA) have been investigating the endurance of bipolar electronics amid long-term radiation exposure in space. Typically used for analog signal processing in satellite, bipolar electronics are being subjected to special radiation testing, after it was discovered that they failed prematurely at substantially lower radiation levels than laboratory testing would indicate. The test procedure from Sandia/DSWA, which has been adopted as the official test standard for satellite electronics components by the American Society for Testing of Materials, encompass three groups of devices that are irradiated under varying conditions, such as radiation dosage, duration and ambient temperature.

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Sandia Labs team & consortium have been studying the endurance of bipolar electronics amid long-term radiation exposure in space

Product information, Science & research, Bipolar Integrated Circuits, Article

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Intel breaks 1 GHz, presents Pentium III

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Intel Corp has introduced Pentium III, which exceeds the 1 GHz mark of CPU speed. Available in 450 MHz and 500 MHz, the microprocessor was demonstrated to achieve more than 1 GHz of clock speed. Pentium III was fabricated with the use of a 250nm technology and offers such advancements as 70 new instructions, 3-D streaming audio, video and speech recognition applications.

Microprocessor Chips, Product introduction, CPUs (Central processing units)

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