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We have two new additions to our family and more on the way! Please join us in welcoming Imogen Priest and Jalyn Hobbs.
Synchronous serial communications is a technology that you may have heard of, but perhaps have not used. It is usually employed when large amounts of data are required to be transmitted serially, often at high data rates. Luckily, using synchronous serial communications is much easier now given the tools that Sealevel provides.
Have you noticed how fast new computer hardware has been getting? What’s changed to make those advances? Computer designs have changed, cooling technologies have changed, and, very recently, we’ve seen the mainstream adoption of multiple processors running in a single system. We call them multi-core processors. The wide-spread adoption of multi-core processors on the desktop has made computer system programming vastly more complicated for the computer system designer.
Al Rogers has been a manufacturing engineer at Sealevel for almost a year. Al served as a Navigation Aids Operator and Technician in the U.S. Marine Corps. Born in Brunswick, Georgia, he has lived in Iva (SC), Southern California and Iwakuni, Japan. He earned an electrical engineering degree from Clemson University in 2009.
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One of the simplest and most useful components of computer driven control systems is an electrical relay. Learn the basics of relays. The next time you need to control an existing electrical device, you will know that you need a relay to do it, and you should have an idea of the type of relay you need.
After boot camp and initial Electronic Warfare Operator schooling, my first fleet command was the Forrestal Class super carrier USS Ranger CV-61 home ported in San Diego, California in 1988. I will never forget thinking how large this ship was when I crossed the Coronado Bay Bridge and saw her for the first time dockside at North Island Naval Complex.
We continue to work to define the standard software that will be provided with this new line of products. For now we have implemented a Modbus/TCP bridge function and serial server software that allows the ARM9 to poll the I/O and the serial ports to appear as standard COM ports to a host system. This allows us to meet the immediate requirements of this particular customer. However, we look forward to and are very excited about the official release of these new products.
I strongly believe in the philosophy of keeping business local. It’s something that I have always strived to do at Sealevel. Although we have 50 employees in-house, our team reaches far beyond the walls of our facility. From assembly to fabrication to distribution, we rely on outside sources – many of whom live and work in the state of South Carolina. By keeping business local, we not only improve the economies and quality of life within our communities, we also have the opportunity to engage in face-to-face meetings, control business costs and develop stronger partnerships in our own backyards.
My interest in sailing began before I could walk. My father has owned several sailboats. While my father introduced me to sailing and taught me to sail, he spent more time in recreational sailing and I spent more time racing. But why would a software engineer be blogging about sailboats?
Imagine you are at a museum. As you walk up to a piece of artwork, the floor recognizes your presence and begins to tell you about the piece. What if you were doing cardio at a gym and each step lit up the floor while counting the calories that you burned? Or you are at a bar, you set down a drink and the table ripples light underneath your glass? These are the ideas that the Sensacell system brings to life.
