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HP Precision Bus. The HP Precision bus (also called HP-PB and HP-NIO)
is the data transfer bus of the proprietary Hewlett Packard architecture HP 3000 and later many variants of the HP 9000 series of UNIX systems. This bus has a 32-bit data path with an 8 MHz clock. It supports a maximum transfer rate of 23 MB/s in burst mode. That bus was also used to directly support the Programmable Serial Interface (PSI) cards, which offered multi-protocol support for networking, notably IBM Bisync and similar systems.The 920, 922 and 932 series supported up to three PSI cards, and up to five cards in the 948 and 958 series.

Two form factors/sizes of HP-PB expansion cards were sold: single and double.

 32-bit data path width
 32 MB/s maximum data rate
 8 MHz maximum frequency
 5 V signalling voltage
 96-pin (32×3) female pin+socket card connector (Is this a DIN 41612 connector?)

External links
HP 3000 manuals
HP/PA buses on Openpa.net

Notes

Computer buses
Precision Bus
Hugh Lincoln Cooper. Hugh Lincoln Cooper (April 28, 1865–June 24, 1937) was an American colonel and civil engineer, known for construction supervision of a number of hydroelectric power plants.

Biography

Born in Houston County in Sheldon, Minnesota, Cooper moved to Rushford Minnesota and graduated from Rushford High School. Cooper was a self-educated civil engineer. He worked throughout the United States, Canada, Brazil, Egypt, and Soviet Union. During World War I he served as a supervising engineer in the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Cooper died in Stamford, Connecticut in 1937.

Supervised constructions 

 Toronto Power Generating Station, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada (1906)
 Keokuk Dam, Hamilton, Illinois and Keokuk, Iowa (1910-1913)
 Wilson Dam, Shoals Shore, Alabama (1918-1924)
 Lake Zumbro Hydroelectric Generating Plant, Mazeppa, Minnesota (1919)
 Dniprohes, Soviet Union (now Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine) (1927-1932) — upon completion of the project, Hugh Cooper was awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour

References

External links

 Hugh Lincoln Cooper  at the American Society of Civil Engineers website.
 M. Bourke-White, Image of Col. Hugh L. Cooper supervising the building of the great dam across the Dineper River . Life Magazine, 1931.
 Hugh L. Cooper speaks to MIT civil engineers , January 1915.
 

1865 births
1937 deaths
People from Houston County, Minnesota
Military personnel from Minnesota
American civil engineers
American expatriates in the Soviet Union
United States Army officers
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
List of engineering colleges affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University. There are 219 engineering colleges affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), which is in Belgaum in the state of Karnataka, India. This list is categorised into two parts, autonomous colleges and non-autonomous colleges. Autonomous colleges are bestowed academic independence allowing them to form their own syllabus and conduct their own examinations.

A college may be classified as government run, private unaided, or private aided. A government college receives full funding from the Government of Karnataka, while a private unaided college receives no funding from the government. In a private aided college, one or more of its courses receives partial funding from the government. An autonomous college enjoys academic independence which gives it the freedom to revise the syllabus with time and follow a schedule which is more suitable for the set curriculum. Almost all engineering colleges in Karnataka are affiliated to VTU, notable exceptions being University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, PES University and Manipal Institute of Technology.

Table legend

The list is further categorised into private, government aided, and government colleges.

Government Colleges

Private colleges

Autonomous colleges
Autonomy, as granted by the University Grants Commission, in concurrence with the Government of Karnataka, has been conferred upon selected colleges, which grants upon them, certain special privileges.

Autonomous colleges can frame their own schemes of study, curricula and evaluation, without need of the approval of the university. These colleges also have the freedom to conduct add on courses and supplementary semesters for students who may be in need of it. They also have the freedom to avail grants from funding agencies. All of these privileges are not granted to non-autonomous colleges.

Autonomy is granted in order to obtain better placements for students, to have better college-industry interaction, and also to enable colleges to continuously update and modernize the curriculum.

References

External links 

 Official website
 VTU Results
 2nd VTU Results Website

Visvesvaraya Technological University
Engineering colleges
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Westinghouse J32. The Westinghouse J32 was a small turbojet engine developed by the Westinghouse Aviation Gas Turbine Division in the mid-1940s.

Design and development
Development of the 9.5A (military designation J32-WE-2) began in late 1942, and Westinghouse delivered the first engine to the U.S. Navy in mid-1944. The Navy selected the 9.5A to power the Gorgon II-B and III-B air-to-air missiles, but these applications did not materialize.

An improved version, the 9.5B, powered the  TD2N-1 Gorgon high-speed target drone, which successfully flew in 1945. The engine's high cost and continuing development delays led to the cancellation of the TD2N-1 program in 1946. Westinghouse manufactured 24 of the 9.5A and 20 of the 9.5B engines. Despite their limited use, they constituted the first family of small turbojet engines successfully developed and produced in the United States.

Variants
J32-WE-2Military designation of the Westinghouse 9.5A
Westinghouse 9.5A Company designation of the J32, denoting the diameter of the engine in inches
Westinghouse 9.5B Company designation for the improved version of the 9.5A

Applications
NAMU KDN-1 Gorgon high-speed target drone

Engines on display
A cutaway Westinghouse 9.5A/J32-WE-2 turbojet engine is on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA. This engine lacks a serial number as it was assembled from spare parts and was transferred to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center from the U.S. Department of the Navy, Bureau of Aeronautics.

Specifications (9.5A)

References

Notes
 This article contains material that originally came from the placard at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

Further reading

External links

 

1940s turbojet engines
Abandoned military aircraft engine projects of the United States
J32
Farman F.480 Alizé. The Farman F.480 Alizé was a single engine, two seat, parasol winged monoplane built in France in the mid-1930s.  Designed as a tourer and trainer, all Alizés served as training aircraft for government (Republican) forces during the Spanish Civil War.

Design and development

The Alizé (Tradewind in English) was designed in 1936 as a tourer/trainer, though in the end it served almost entirely as a trainer. Its flat sided, round decked fuselage seated two in open, tandem cockpits, fitted from the outset with dual control.  The rear cockpit was at the trailing edge of the parasol wing, which had a small cut-out for improved visibility; the forward cockpit was under the wing.  The wing itself was of parallel chord with rounded tips.  Like the rest of the Alizé, it had a wooden structure.  Two pairs of parallel struts joined the wing to the lower fuselage longerons, assisted by vertical ancillary struts outboard and a cabane structure with two main struts per side, another pair of thinner struts going forward to the upper rear engine mounting. Both vertical and horizontal tail surfaces were straight edged and nearly rectangular. The rudder operated in a cut-out between the elevators, carried on the strut braced stabilizers. The Alizé had a fixed, split axle conventional undercarriage.  The main undercarriage legs, each carrying a single mainwheel, were mounted vertically on the forward wing struts, with half-axles hinged from the centre line of the fuselage bottom.  Secondary struts ran forward from the top and bottom of each leg to points on the rear of the engine mounting.

The Alizé was powered by an uncowled 110 hp (82 kW) Lorraine 5P engine, a five-cylinder radial.  It had a long exhaust pipe reaching under the aircraft rearwards, passing between the radius arms and ending below the forward cockpit.

The first flight was in May 1936.  The first prototype completed its certification tests in late September 1936 and received its certificate in December.  The second prototype was certified the same day; ten more Alizés, already built in the Boulogne-Billancourt factory were also approved the following day.

Operational history
The history of the Alizé was determined by events not in France but in neighbouring Spain, where a military backed rebellion against the government had broken out in July 1936, beginning the Spanish Civil War.  Since the military controlled the bulk of the Spanish Air Force's equipment, the government had to look abroad for replacement aircraft.  France was, after some wavering, unwilling to provide true military machines but was prepared to turn a blind eye to the export of civil French aircraft that might have military potential, so long as this was done quietly.  Some 50 French civil aircraft went to Spain this way, including all 12 Alizés.  By June 1937 they were serving as trainers at three pilot schools across Spain.

Operators

Spanish Republican Air Force

Specifications

See also

References

Bibliography

1930s French civil aircraft
F.480
Parasol-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1936
RagWing RW8 PT2S. The RagWing RW8 PT2S is a single or two seat, high wing, strut-braced, single engine ultralight aircraft designed by Roger Mann and sold as plans by RagWing Aircraft Designs for amateur construction.

Design and development
The RW8 was designed for the US experimental homebuilt aircraft category for single seat flying or as a US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles two-seat ultralight trainer and first flown in 1993.

The airframe is constructed entirely from wood and covered with aircraft fabric. The landing gear is of conventional configuration with bungee suspension with tricycle gear optional. The aircraft's installed power range is  and the standard engine is the  Rotax 503, although the  2si 540 has also been used.

The PT2S is only offered as plans and the designer estimates it will take 500 hours to complete the aircraft.

Variants
RW8 PT2S
Two seat side-by-side configuration ultralight trainer, Pilot Trainer, 2 Seat
RW8 ALF
Single seat Affordable Light Flyer

Specifications (RW8)

References

External links

1990s United States ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
PT2S
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Aircraft first flown in 1993
William D. Bond. William D. Bond (born January 2, 1931) is an American inventor and mechanical engineer who retired from General Motors after spending his entire career with the car maker. He is most noted for his innovative work on intake manifolds, a three-wheeled concept car, and early electric cars in the 1960s.

Background 
William Dale Bond was born January 2, 1931, in Winterset, Iowa to Dale Bond, an entrepreneur and Myrtle Swedlund Bond, a music teacher. He graduated from Iowa State University in 1960 with a BS degree in Engineering and is a member of the Iowa State University chapter of Tau Beta Pi, an engineering society for academic excellence. In the early 1950s, he raced on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. He was one of the charter members of the Ames, Iowa hot rod club and the Night Crawlers in the mid-1950s. Bond served as a ballistic meteorologist for the National Guard during the Korean War era.

Career 
A member of the engineering staff, Bond worked for General Motors (GM) from July 1960 until his retirement in February 1993. His early work involved one of GM's earliest electric cars, the Electrovair II, a 1966 Corvair Monza sedan powered by silver-zinc batteries. The battery pack gave the Electrovair II a similar performance to that of the conventional gasoline powered Corvair which the car was based on with a top speed of 80 mph. As the project manager of the Electrovair II, Bond served as the spokesperson and driver when the car was demonstrated to the press in October 1966. It is the oldest historic vehicle on display at the GM Heritage Center in Sterling Heights, Michigan. Bond then worked with the Electrovan, which is credited as the world's first hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicle. The Electrovan had a top speed of 70 mph, was able to accelerate from 0-60 mph in 30 seconds and had a range of 120 to 150 miles. It is currently on display at the GM Heritage Center in Sterling Heights, Michigan.

Bond received his first patent in 1968 for a Mounting and Cooling Apparatus for Semiconductor Devices. This apparatus cools the electrical switching device. He was featured on the cover of August 15, 1972, issue of Automotive Industries magazine in a feature story about Early Fuel Evaporation which General Motors received a patent for in 1973. In 1975, he received a patent for a Quick Warm-up Intake Manifold. This is a temperature control system that allows the heat to be directed to the intake manifold when the engine is cold.

References 

1931 births
Living people
American inventors
21st-century American engineers
American meteorologists
General Motors designers
Iowa State University alumni
People from Winterset, Iowa
Racing drivers from Iowa
Innocon MicroFalcon. MicroFalcon is a small Miniature UAV produced by Innocon in Israel.

The MicroFalcon typically operates at altitudes of 500–2000 feet, and speeds of 20–40 knots. It uses the a lightweight, compact sensor package, similar to that used by the Elbit Skylark.

MicroFalcon weighs 6–10 kg and has 2–3 hour endurance.
The Peruvian Army has bought the MicroFalcon. In 2017, an Indian law enforcement agency placed an order for the Israeli produced UAV.

References

External links
 Product page at Innocon

Unmanned aerial vehicles of Israel
Femern A/S. Femern A/S is a Danish planning company charged with preparing the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel across the Baltic Sea between the Danish island of Lolland and the German island of Fehmarn. Construction of the 18 km immersed tunnel, which is expected to be completed by 2029, will comprise a dual-track railway and a four-lane motorway. Femern A/S is in charge of planning and providing the basis for regulatory approval of the project on behalf of the Danish government. The framework for this work falls under a treaty between Denmark and Germany which was signed in 2008. The planned tunnel, together with upgrades to the surrounding infrastructure, will reduce travel times between Northern Germany and Scandinavia.

Company structure 
Femern A/S is a subsidiary of Sund & Bælt Holding A/S, which is 100 per cent owned by the Danish Ministry of Transport. Sund & Bælt Holding A/S is also the parent company of A/S Storebælt, which operates the Great Belt Fixed Link and A/S Øresund, which operates the Øresund Fixed Link. The CEO of Femern A/S is Claus F. Baunkjær.

Femern A/S is headquartered in Copenhagen. The company also has a representative office in Berlin and public information centres in Burg auf Fehmarn in Germany and Rødbyhavn in Denmark. As of 1 June 2014, the company has 101 employees.

External links 
 Website

Service companies based in Copenhagen
Government-owned companies of Denmark
2009 establishments in Denmark
Companies based in Copenhagen Municipality
Intel X79. The Intel X79 (codenamed Patsburg) is a Platform Controller Hub (PCH) designed and manufactured by Intel for their LGA 2011 (Socket R) and LGA 2011-1 (Socket R2).

Socket and chipset support CPUs targeted at the high-end desktop (HEDT) and enthusiast segments of the Intel product lineup: Core i7-branded and Xeon-branded processors from the Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge CPU architectures.

The supported CPUs feature quad channel memory controllers, and a certain number of PCIe lanes, the chipset features additional PCIe lanes; it is designed to connect an Intel processor through a DMI 2.0 interface to peripheral devices.

Features 
The first product was announced on November 14, 2011, for "Extreme" CPUs using the LGA 2011 socket.

Features include:
 2× Serial ATA (SATA) 3.0 (6 Gbit/s) ports & 4x SATA 2 (3 Gbit/s) ports.
 8× PCI Express 2.0 lanes 
 14 Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 ports
 Integrated Gigabit Ethernet MAC (Lewisville PHY)
 Optional Intel Rapid Storage Technology enterprise 3.0
 SATA RAID support (0/1/10/5)
 Write journaling
 100 MHz BCLK
 Supports processor, memory and chipset overclocking
 Supports Intel Extreme Tuning Utility 3.0 (XTU)
 8-layer printed circuit board (PCB), 2 oz copper recommended
The X79 chipset is made to work with the Intel LGA 2011 (Socket R) which features 2011 copper pins. The added pins allow for more PCI Express lanes and interconnects for server class processors.

Newer Core and Xeon processors address 40 PCI Express 3.0 lanes directly through Sandy Bridge-E architecture (Xeon) and Ivy Bridge architecture (Core processors).

Partial support for Windows XP
The X79 chipset does not support installing Windows XP in AHCI mode for Intel's Serial ATA controllers as Intel won't release AHCI drivers for 32-bit Windows XP. Windows XP can be installed in IDE mode but without SATA features enabled. For users that dual boot Windows XP with another operating system installed in AHCI mode, this means changing to IDE mode every time to boot into Windows XP and changing back to SATA to boot the other OS, or installing the other OS which supports AHCI also in IDE mode to prevent switching the setting in the BIOS each time. This restriction applies only to 32-bit Windows XP; 64-bit Windows XP is supported by Intel drivers.

For motherboards with X79 chipset but with third party SATA disk controllers, 32-bit Windows XP AHCI drivers may still be supported by the disk controller vendor (non-Intel).

A third party, generic Intel AHCI/RAID driver for 32-bit Windows XP has been released by Fernando.

See also
List of Intel chipsets
Platform Controller Hub (PCH)

References

External links
 Official Release Date and Ivy Bridge vs Sandy Bridge Benchmarks Revealed, by Lenzfire.com

X79
Computer-related introductions in 2011
Semiconductor (disambiguation). A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity due to electron flow intermediate in magnitude between that of a conductor and an insulator.

Semiconductor or semi-conductor may also refer to:
 Semiconductor device, an electronic component that exploits the electronic properties of semiconductor materials
 Semi-Conductor (album), a compilation album by Larry Fast
 Semiconductor (artists), also known as Semiconductor Films, names used by British art duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt
Farman F.1020. The Farman F.1020 was an experimental aircraft built in France in 1933 to investigate the behaviour of a semi-circular wing fitted with unconventional controls.  It had a short career and only one was constructed.

Design
The Farman F.1020 was built to test a novel wing design, the study of which had begun in 1926.  Its plan was essentially semicircular, with the straight edge leading.  The chord was thus broad and the aspect ratio very low.  Such a wing has high induced drag but was thought to offer good transverse stability and low speed behaviour.  It has such features in common with some tailless and delta designs.

The wing of the F.1020 had a near circular trailing edge which squared off into straight tips.  The leading edge was a little further forward than the diameter of the idealised semicircle would have been and was slightly swept; it was also extended beyond the rest of the wing, carrying conventional ailerons.  The maximum chord, at the wing root, was 5 m, compared with a span of 7.2 m; the aspect ratio was 2.1.  The trailing edge carried deep chord control surfaces, two per side: the outer pair were used differentially like ailerons and the inner ones as flaps.

This wing was mounted on the fuselage of a Farman F.402, retaining the empennage, undercarriage and the 110 hp (82 kW) Lorraine 5-cylinder radial engine. As on the F.402, the wing was placed on top of the cabin with two square windows in the roof for upward visibility.  The control system enabled the pilot to switch between conventional (aileron, elevator, rudder) control and that provided by the trailing edge surfaces.

Operational history
The first flight of the F.1020, nicknamed the Pelle-bêche (en:Digging-shovel or Spade) and registered as F-AMOG, was in December 1933, piloted by Lucien Coupet.  Thereafter it was only flown by Henry Farman who found it almost impossible to spin, but without any other particular merits. A design study was made for a variant with a shorter, 4 m, chord, designated F.1021, but this was not built.

Specifications

References

Bibliography

External links

1930s French experimental aircraft
F.1020
No. 197 Squadron RAF. No. 197 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force Squadron formed in World War I and reformed as a fighter-bomber unit in World War II.

History

Formation and World War I
No. 197 Squadron Royal Flying Corps was formed in Egypt on 9 August 1917, but it disbanded on 17 November 1917 upon re-designation as an artillery observation school, having not received any aircraft.

Reformation in World War II

The squadron reformed on 21 November 1942 at RAF Turnhouse and was supplied with Typhoons. It then operated from RAF Manston, RAF Tangmere and RAF Hurn. It supported the Normandy landings in June 1944 and re-located to France where it followed the Allied advance across Europe seeking targets of opportunity. On 3 May 1945 the squadron took part in the attack that resulted in the sinking of the . It disbanded at Hildesheim, Germany, on 31 August 1945.

Aircraft operated

References

External links
 History of No.'s 196–200 Squadrons at RAF Web
 197 Squadron history on the official RAF website

197
Fighter squadrons of the Royal Air Force in World War II
Military units and formations established in 1917
1917 establishments in Egypt
LNER electric units. The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) operated different types of electric multiple units.

British Rail Class 306, introduced in 1949 on the suburban lines out of London Liverpool Street
British Rail Class 505, introduced in 1931, jointly with the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, in the Manchester area
British Rail Class 506, introduced in 1954 in the Manchester area
LNER Tyneside electric units, introduced in 1937 in Tyneside
London Underground 1938 Stock, 289 cars of which were LNER property
NER electric units, absorbed from the North Eastern Railway in 1923