HEICO Corporation Acquires Connect Tech Inc

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August 18, 2020

HEICO Corporation Acquires Connect Tech Inc

Guelph ON, Canada, and Hollywood, FL, USA – Connect Tech, a leader in embedded computing and NVIDIA GPU solutions, today announces its acquisition by HEICO Corporation.  For 35 years Connect Tech has served a global market as a hardware design company and manufacturer.  As a subsidiary of HEICO Corporation, Connect Tech will continue to serve its global customer base.

Connect Tech’s significant growth, now backed by HEICO’s financial resources and multiple technology companies, will continue on its upward trajectory.   “HEICO’s resources will help to fuel continued product development and growth while our current executive team will remain intact to ensure a seamless transition for our global customer base” stated David Worthen, President and Founder of Connect Tech.

Connect Tech Inc. is NVIDIA’s largest global embedded hardware partner offering a wide array of NVIDIA® Jetson™ solutions, as well as embedded solutions for a variety of industry standards including COM Express, SMARC, and more. With over 35 years of embedded computing experience, Connect Tech’s range of proven technology includes complete embedded systems, carrier boards, thermal solutions, and more. With in-house design and manufacturing services, Connect Tech can provide fast turn-around of custom design services, taking you from development to deployment in record time.

For more information visit www.connecttech.com.

HEICO Corporation is engaged primarily in the design, production, servicing and distribution of products and services to certain niche segments of the aviation, defense, space, medical, telecommunications and electronics industries through its Hollywood, Florida-based Flight Support Group and its Miami, Florida-based Electronic Technologies Group. HEICO’s customers include a majority of the world’s airlines and overhaul shops, as well as numerous defense and space contractors and military agencies worldwide, in addition to medical, telecommunications and electronics equipment manufacturers. For more information about HEICO, please visit our website at www.heico.com.

Connect Tech Supports NVIDIA® Jetson Nano™

Connect Tech is offering free public download of a 3D printable enclosure, Nano-Pac, which can be 3D printed as a Jetson Nano Development Kit enclosure.

Find out more http://connecttech.com/products/nvidia-jetson-nano

What is the difference between Jetson Nano, Jetson TX1 and Jetson TX2?

FeaturesJetson Nano Jetson TX1 Jetson TX2
GPU128 Core NVIDIA Maxwell™ (0.5 TFLOPs FP16) 256 Core NVIDIA Maxwell (1 TFLOPs FP16) 256 Core NVIDIA Pascal™ @ 1.3GHz
CPU 64-bit Quad-core ARM A57 (1.43 GHz) 64-bit Quad-core ARM A57 (1.7 GHz) 6 core Denver and ARM A57 (2GHz)
(2x) 2MB L2
Memory 4 GB 64-bit LPDDR4 25.6 GB/s 8GB 128-bit LPDDR4
58.4 GB/s
Storage 16 GB eMMC32GB eMMC
Networking 10/100/1000 Mbit
Video Encode 2160p @ 30 (H.264/H.265)(2x) 4K @30 HEVC
Camera 12 MIPI CSI-2 DPHY 1.1 lanes (1.5 Gb/sec)
Dual ISP (1.5 Gpix/sec)
12 MIPI CSI-2 DPHY 1.1 lanes (1.5 Gb/sec)
Dual ISP (1.5 Gpix/sec)
12 MIPI CSI-2 DPHY 1.2 lanes
(30Gbps)
WiFi Not supported SupportedSupported
Mechanical69.6 mm x 45 mm, 260-pin SODIMM connector
No TTP
87 mm x 50 mm, 400-pin Samtec connector
Integrated TTP
87 mm x 50 mm
400-pin connector
Input Voltage 5V (nominal) 5.5V (min) to 19.6V (max) 7.5W / 15W
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Overcoming common pit-falls of VoIP

Overcoming common pit-falls of VoIP

While we pretty much all agree that combining voice and data on one secure network saves time, money and is easily scalable, VoIP does have a few downsides that need to be planned for.

  1. VoIP will not function if there are internet or service outages. Choosing a system with built-in redundancy and call continuity, or having a back-up ISP or other connection, is important.
  2. Back-up power supplies should be on hand to deal with power outages.
  3. But, what if you are in a rural area using a network that has limited bandwidth?

Here packets can go missing causing breaks in conversation. This can be a huge problem if you are trying to communicate with customers, other businesses, or work colleagues.

Find out how the Ravenglass & Eskdale Steam Railway solved this problem using Perle Ethernet Extenders to transmit data up to 20km across existing copper wiring.

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NEW: Industrial DIN Rail Power Supplies

Perle now offers a complete range of rugged AC to DC and DC to DC Converters built to meet the high stability and efficiency expectations of industrial, machine automation and process control environments. There are over 90 models, with a wide variety of features and functions, to choose from.

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UK’s air-breathing rocket engine set for key tests

Artwork: Sabre could enable intercontinental travel at five times the speed of sound

Author: Jonathan Amos, BBC Science Correspondent
BBC News: 15 March 2019
Images: Reaction Engines Ltd.

The UK project to develop a hypersonic engine that could take a plane from London to Sydney in about four hours is set for a key demonstration.

The Sabre engine is part jet, part rocket, and relies on a novel pre-cooler heat-exchanger technology.

This pre-cooler system will begin a new phase of testing in the next month or so in Colorado, US.

Meanwhile, the core part of the engine has just gone through its preliminary design review.

Signed off by experts at the European Space Agency, the review sets the stage for this central section of Sabre to begin its own demonstration campaign at Wescott Space Cluster in Buckinghamshire next year.

Artwork: Space planes based on Sabre ought to be fully reusable and cheaper to operate

The company behind the project, Reaction Engines Ltd (REL), says it is making good progress.

Not only would Sabre power units enable rapid, point-to-point transport inside the atmosphere, but they would also allow reusable vehicles to make the jump straight to orbit without the need for multiple propellant stages – as is the case now with conventional rockets.

Sabre would work like an air-breathing jet engine from standstill to about Mach 5.5 (5.5 times the speed of sound) and then transition to a rocket mode at high altitude, going at 25 times the speed of sound to get into space, if this is the chosen destination.

The European Space Agency is auditing the technical development of Sabre

Achieving this flight profile is a challenge in managing temperature extremes.

The essential innovations include a compact pre-cooler heat-exchanger that can take an incoming airstream in the region of 1,000C and cool it to -150C in less than 1/100th of a second.

REL proved the pre-cooler’s efficiency at taking an ambient air stream to low temperature in 2012. Now it must do the same in a very high-temperature regime. This is the purpose of the Colorado tests.

“To have a very high-temperature, high-volume flow of air to test the pre-cooler – we needed a new facility. That is now complete,” explains Shaun Driscoll, REL’s programmes director

“We will be running tests in the next month or two. We will be using re-heated aero engines to drive air through the system. We will drive air into the pre-cooler at up to 1,000C.”

Sabre would burn hydrogen in the oxygen it scoops from the air

Sabre, at a fundamental level, can be divided into three sections – the pre-cooler front-end; a core combustion section with a smart thermodynamic cycle to again manage heat and fluid flow; and a relatively conventional rocket arrangement at the rear.

It’s the core section that is having a new test facility built for it at the Wescott space park, the site of Britain’s post-war Rocket Propulsion Establishment.

New building: On the site of Britain’s post-war Rocket Propulsion Establishment

The building is nearing the end of its preparation and the design work on the core of Sabre is also moving towards its conclusion.

“The core can be tested on the ground, but it’s the core that gets you air-breathing from the ground up to the edge of space, at which point there is no more oxygen to breathe and the system transitions to the pure rocket mode,” Mr Driscoll said.

REL is a private venture with the backing of aerospace giants BAe Systems, Rolls-Royce and Boeing. It has also received significant R&D support from the UK government. Esa’s propulsion specialists act as technical auditors, assessing each step in the development of the Sabre concept.

“The positive conclusion of our Preliminary Design Review marks a major milestone in Sabre development,” commented Esa’s Mark Ford.

“It confirms the test version of this revolutionary new class of engine is ready for implementation.”

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47585433