{"title":"Poynting's theorem and time-harmonic radiators","authors":"D. M. Grimes, C. Grimes","doi":"10.1109/AERO.1994.291188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.1994.291188","url":null,"abstract":"An important parameter of any antenna is the ratio of standing reactive energy stored about the antenna to the radiated power; by definition, quality factor Q is /spl omega/ times that ratio. Q is often inversely proportional to the operational bandwidth of the antenna. Extensive experience and electromagnetic theory arguments based upon Q seem to agree that an efficient antenna must be about a half wavelength long in at least one dimension. But is this a general property of radiation fields, or is it due to an inadequate understanding on our part? Can the size limitations be mitigated or even bypassed? In this paper we re-examine the fundamentals of radiating fields and conclude that there is a significant special case that has not been adequately examined previously. We examine it and conclude that errors of omission are made in previous analyses, and significant improvements in the operation of small antennas may be possible. The complex Poynting vector is derived from the time-domain equations. Using it there are two types of radiation fields that have convenient solutions, and these are presented.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":223269,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Aerospace Applications Conference Proceedings","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116046904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Not all programmers are created equal","authors":"G., Edward Bryan","doi":"10.1109/AERO.1994.291203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.1994.291203","url":null,"abstract":"Data measuring individual programmer performance was gathered over a 12-year period in a stable work group responsible for developing and supporting a single 4.2-million-line operating system and associated program products, communication systems, and databases. Analysis shows a wide variation in productivity from best- to poorest-performing individuals and groups. Eight percent of the work result was done by a single programmer out of a workforce of almost 200. A variation of 200:1 separated the top programmer from the poorest performers. The top 27% of programmers did 78% of the work. Planning for average productivity can therefore result in significant errors in projects.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":223269,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Aerospace Applications Conference Proceedings","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121658614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Current carrying capacity of dendrites","authors":"W. Bjorndahl, J. Lau","doi":"10.1109/AERO.1994.291179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.1994.291179","url":null,"abstract":"Dendrites are sometimes found on electronic hardware during failure analysis or trouble shooting activities. Problems due to dendrite formation can vary from catastrophic failure to occasional electronic glitches. If a dendrite is thought of as a fuse in a circuit, then it is apparent that it can have, depending on size, a wide range of current carrying capability. Mathematical modeling and experimental analyses were conducted to determine the reasons for the wide range of observed behavior. Mathematical modeling indicates that the resistivity of the dendrite and the thermophysical characteristics of the substrate on which it is grown determine its current carrying capacity. More specifically, the modeling indicates that maximum dendrite size and time to failure are determined by the power loss within the dendrite and the rate at which heat can be transferred away from the dendrite. Small dendrites are stable and can grow until they reach a size at which internal heat generation cannot be accommodated by the heat loss due to conduction through the substrate. Dendrites in low voltage applications on substrates with high thermal diffusivity are more likely to lead to failures with high power loss, whereas dendrites in high voltage applications on low thermal diffusivity substrates (e.g. tin on glass/epoxy circuit board material) are more likely to lead to high resistance shorts. Experimental results and failure analysis observations agree qualitatively and semi-quantitatively with the results of the idealized dendrite model.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":223269,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Aerospace Applications Conference Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129677975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"One time transient failure investigation","authors":"L. Mallette, J. Varney","doi":"10.1109/AERO.1994.291183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.1994.291183","url":null,"abstract":"A 0.5 dB degradation of a flight model frequency generator was observed for three minutes. The zero risk environment led to Herculean efforts to resolve this problem. An extensive test program did not find the problem so a detailed visual inspection was performed and a dendrite was found at the lowest level of assembly. That module was replaced, and a paper search of the build process was initiated to determine if the problem was generic to the other units that had been produced.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":223269,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Aerospace Applications Conference Proceedings","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114071617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A high performance critical section protocol for distributed systems","authors":"R. R. Seban","doi":"10.1109/AERO.1994.291207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.1994.291207","url":null,"abstract":"Parallel and distributed processing is a system level approach used to develop high performance and fault tolerant systems. For example, an airborne or a space platform computational system consists of several subsystems (possibly replicated for speed and reliability) and sometimes optimized to perform specific tasks such as flight control, communications, information display, or telemetry. The computation in a distributed system is modeled as a collaboration of interacting processes. When processes share information in a read/write fashion a problem may arise. Although each individual process performs its computation correctly, the result of the computation of the distributed system may be incorrect because of an improper sharing of the information. In this paper we present a new high performance critical section protocol designed for distributed systems with general topologies where the communication network is implemented as point-to-point physical links in contrast to a shared access bus. Distributed systems can be modeled by a graph G(V, E) where V denotes the set of processors (nodes) and E the set of communication links (edges). n denotes the number of processors, D(G) the diameter of G, and D(T) the diameter of the spanning tree. An important measure of the protocol performance is the network traffic caused by a single access to the critical section. Another important measure of performance is the time required to access the critical section/spl minus/in the absence of other requests/spl minus/the cs-access time. The proposed protocol has a better network traffic performance and (depending on the topology) a better or equal cs-access time performance than previously published fully distributed protocols. The protocol bounds the clock and message sizes in well designed systems using a distributed predictive \"clock squashing\" mechanism. Other protocols, even for well designed systems, have unbounded clocks and hence unbounded messages sizes.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":223269,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Aerospace Applications Conference Proceedings","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125906233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fuzzy logic vs traditional approaches to the design of microcontroller-based systems","authors":"A. Jackson","doi":"10.1109/AERO.1994.291206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.1994.291206","url":null,"abstract":"The use of fuzzy logic for closed loop control is compared to the more traditional approaches of zero-pole placement in the z-plane and the choice of PID (proportional, integral, differential) parameters. A common type of positioning system is used as an example to illustrate these different approaches and to allow practical comparisons. Results of a simulation study of the model system, using specific implementations of the three control techniques, show that fuzzy logic can be used to achieve a degree of compensation that is nearly as good as that achieved by more conventional techniques. The fuzzy logic approach requires more code, hence, more power on the part of the microcontroller, but it does not require that the designer have a knowledge of feedback control theory. Because fuzzy logic is a straightforward approach, based upon practical knowledge of the system to be controlled, its use has some advantages over the other approaches if an analytic model of the system is difficult to construct. Certain demands are placed upon the microcontroller in all three cases, and these are discussed here in some detail. Two popular microcontrollers, the MC68HC16 and MC68332, are examined to explore their individually unique features that make them particularly suitable for one or the other of the control schemes studied.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":223269,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Aerospace Applications Conference Proceedings","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117292612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Physical analysis of dendrites within conformal coat","authors":"J. Novak","doi":"10.1109/AERO.1994.291181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.1994.291181","url":null,"abstract":"The following describes an analysis performed on dendrites found in a conformally coated module within a frequency generator unit. High-power visual inspection, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), and Energy Dispersive X-Ray (EDAX) results confirmed the existence and constituents of the dendrites. For the purposes of this paper, a dendrite is defined as the migration of metal (Ag, Cu, Pb, Sn, etc.) occurring in an electric field with moisture, temperature, and contamination as accelerating factors. This paper addresses the physical aspects of dendrites and not the factors required for growth. Conformal coating is a thin protective layer of silicone material used in electrical assemblies. It is mainly used to prevent particulate contamination and minor mechanical damage but does not protect the assembly against moisture due to its absorption properties.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":223269,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Aerospace Applications Conference Proceedings","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116792812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A high data rate electro-optic phase modulator driver for a coherent optical communications application","authors":"C. J. Grant, R. Mueller, N. Mysoor","doi":"10.1109/AERO.1994.291193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.1994.291193","url":null,"abstract":"A compact phase modulator driver circuit capable of high data rates has been designed and integrated with a LiNbO/sub 3/ electro-optical (EO) crystal for a coherent optical communications system. The modulator driver demonstrated the capability of producing an output signal of 20 V peak-to-peak (p-p) amplitude with a 3 dB bandwidth of 210 MHz. The input signal is 2 V p-p and the output drives a capacitive load of 3-10 pF, presented by the EO crystal and connecting cable. The driver phase transfer function shows a linear phase shift over the measured frequency range of 10 to 110 MHz, resulting in a constant group delay of 1.92 ns with less than /spl plusmn/2% variation over this range. The rise and fall times for a 20 V p-p pulse are less than 1.8 ns with less than 13% overshoot at the EO crystal terminals. The dc power consumption for the modulator driver increased from 2.85 W at 100 kHz to 4 W at 100 MHz.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":223269,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Aerospace Applications Conference Proceedings","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126440336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EMI shielding characteristics of permalloy multilayer thin films","authors":"C. Grimes","doi":"10.1109/AERO.1994.291194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.1994.291194","url":null,"abstract":"High permeability magnetic films used for shielding or absorption of electromagnetic interference (EMI) are commonly built in a multilayer stack to maximize the permeability by eliminating or reducing the number of domain walls. The choice of spacer material is driven by the fact that electrically insulating spacer materials reduce eddy currents which cause incident waves to be reflected and not absorbed. Design of frequency specific EMI absorbers or shields requires knowledge of the rf permeability of magnetic multilayer films. We examine the complex, rf permeability spectra and low frequency magnetic field shielding characteristics of DC planar magnetron sputtered Fe/sub 19/Ni/sub 81/ multilayer films as a function of spacer material, number of layers, and thickness of the spacer and magnetic layer. The permeability spectra are measured using a permeameter over the frequency range 5 MHz to 100 MHz. The spacer materials examined include several metals and metal alloys, the corresponding oxides, silicon, and silicon nitride. Spacer layers made of Si/sub 3/N/sub 4/ result in permeability spectra with the highest permeability magnitudes, while copper spacers result in the highest shielding levels. For a fixed number of multilayer pairs and constant spacer layer thickness making the magnetic layer thicker tends to increase the permeability magnitude, and lower the resonance frequency. We find that for electrically insulating spacer layers the same characteristic permeability spectra can be obtained by either increasing the number of layers or increasing the thickness of the magnetic layer.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":223269,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Aerospace Applications Conference Proceedings","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131372016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conformal antennas for smart cars","authors":"R. Munson","doi":"10.1109/AERO.1994.291187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.1994.291187","url":null,"abstract":"This presentation examines potential future electromagnetic/antenna requirements and conceptual designs for \"smart cars\" utilizing the Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS). These cars must provide antennas for many different purposes, including safety, entertainment, voice communications, data communications, guidance, emergency, navigation, and locating functions. Antenna designs must also be consistent with marketing requirements for sleek, stylish, stream-lined, customer-appealing cars. This is an area where the defense industry could obtain large commercial markets.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":223269,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1994 IEEE Aerospace Applications Conference Proceedings","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128045868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}