Masten Evans, managing director of Livingston, the equiment rental specialists, talks to Electronics Weekly about British engineering culture, companies managing their assets, and the greatest test activity he sees over the coming 12 months...
Agilent has boosted its 3,000V curve tracer to 40A. "Enhancements to the B1505A Power Device Analyzer/Curve Tracer make it the industry's first single-box solution ....
It is suggested that the facility in Up Holland, Lancashire when built will create the largest test facility in the North West of England and will generate jobs for the region
LeCroy has developed a kit to couple two four channel 30GHz scopes, allowing analysis 56Gbit/s IQ modulated QPSK.
“We identified a gap between today’s proprietary 3G DPD solutions and the market's need for an inexpensive, open, technology-neutral platform for 4G,” said Jian Yang, ESL integrating manager at Agilent Technologies
Guest columnist Othmar Kyas, senior technical advisor at Tektronix Communications sees LTE as the winning 4G technology, but with work on its development still to do
Guest columnist Lindsay Harris from Rohde & Schwarz UK says there is nothing "long-term" about the Long Term Evolution (LTE) test challenge
Protocol-aware automated test systems are able to communicate in the protocols utilised by the DUT and to fulfil these requirements systems will typically need an FPGA
The business has sites in the UK, including South Queensferry, as well as the US and Asia. The belief is that the LTE test business will be best served as part of a company which is focused on the telecoms networking market
The high costs of ‘drive test’ systems that were used in 3G will need to be avoided for LTE, as the deployment and operational budgets of the network will be under tight control for LTE
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