Technology Engineering

Aaron Lucas Ashlyn C Williams 1101-001 12/10/08 What is Automotive Design and Engineering? The art of designing a car or a truck is nothing short of a miracle.  In this piece I am looking at personal motor vehicles, those that are made with both form and function in mind.  This, to some people, is a very daunting task.  The amount of perfection that people demand in today’s market is almost unfair but somehow all of the engineers and designers can keep up.  People want a vehicle that can reach at least one hundred and thirty miles an hour, zero wind noise, twenty five miles to the gallon minimum, and a sleek attractive body to top it all off.  All the engineers and designers are the people with the amazing minds that create these amazing pieces of art.  What they do is what I want in this piece.  (Fujimoto, 3-24)             To understand the reason for this paper, you need to know a little bit more about me.  I know this is unconventional but it’s the only way that this paper will make any sense as to why some one would ever want to investigate such a vast field.  ... [more..]

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The medical industry is known for its emphasis on standards and regulations that must be followed, depending on the type of device being designed. Designers must demonstrate, through adequate testing and documentation, that product requirements are being met. The FDA and similar bodies in other countries have various rules, regulations, and guidance. Many of these requirements are fulfilled by adhering to appropriate third-party standards—published by organizations such as IEC, ISO, AAMI, and UL—for a given device. “With regard to medical electronics, there’s certainly been a trend toward more regulation and increasing scrutiny about the design process as a whole,” said Paul Nickelsberg, president and senior engineer at Orchid Technologies Engineering and Consulting, Inc., a Maynard, Massachusetts company that specializes in the design, product development, and production of high-tech custom electronics. “That represents opportunities and difficulties for organizations that are trying to sell or bring to market medical devices.”Nickelsberg can attest to the huge panorama of applications that have opened up for medical electronic devices that do things like measure temperature and pressure, or turn a pump, or radiate something with energy. “It’s such a wide field,” he says. “We’ve worked on everything from CT scanners to infrared light detection ... [more..]

A Freescale Power-PC MPC8548 supported by 400MHz DDR2 RAM makes this 32-bit, 1.3 GHz processor a performance champion. 48 Lanes of PCI Express peripheral support add fat-pipe I/O support. Communications use both Gigabit Ethernet Base and 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fabric backplane Zone 2 connectivity. Customized Zone 3 RTM Connectivity provides the unique support our client requires. Renesas SH8-based IPMI resource 48 Lanes of distributed PCI Express peripheral I/O provide high data throughput between the Freescale Power-PC MPC8548 Processor, the individual AMC Cards and the ATCA Backplane. PCI Express switching technology from PLX permits highly flexible PCI Express configurations among RTM, Card Slots and backplane. “AdvancedTCA and microTCA architectures are intended for demanding, high availability applications,” says Paul Nickelsberg, President and CTO  at Orchid Technologies. “Orchid’s early success with AdvancedTCA and microTCA design provided our clients world-class high-end computing options.” At Orchid Technologies we specialize in custom electronic product design. Years of successful electronic product development for a diverse group of nationwide OEM clients has made the engineers at Orchid an expert team. Expert at making performance-driven, cost-effective, manufacturable technology choices. Our experience and expertise are available to assist you. Orchid's designs include: medical, security, energy, industiral, instrumentation, telecom and more. ... [more..]