Testing

The market for test and measurements had revenues of $3.18bn in 2014, according to market watcher Frost & Sullivan, with growth for suppliers of modular instruments. It estimates the test market will reach $3.87bn in 2019 at a compound annual growth rate of 4%. Growing demand for the defence and aerospace sectors is driving this healthy growth in the test market. ...

IDT has launched a HPAC lab (Open High-Performance Analytics and Computing) which it says will address the real-time application needs of enterprise and cloud computing end users. The lab supports heterogeneous processing technologies from  CPU and accelerator vendors who are connecting their hardware to IDT’s portfolio of RapidIO and PCIe interconnect semiconductors, advanced timing and memory interface products. Based in Ottawa, Canada, ...

Modular instruments connected by the PXI bus now represent the fastest growing off the overall test and measurement market, says National Instruments executive Abhay Samant. Speaking today at the National Instruments Automated Test Summit in Reading, Samant said the reason for this growth was PXI’s ability to scale upwards to meet the need for greater bandwidth, data processing and low latency. ...

Electro Rent, the test instrument rental and lease firm, is opening a new UK sales office in London. The company, which has been operating in the UK for 10 years, said it had opened the office to provide local customer support and to drive future expansion in the market. The decision to expand the UK operation comes as the UK rental ...

You have built a great product that meets market demands. You are confident that it radiates little energy and is not susceptible to outside interference, yet when you reach final EMC testing stage, your product fails. This is the nightmare scenario for most of us product designers. The cost of testing was already high, but re-testing will stretch the planned ...

One of the most noticeable trends in the mobile world in recent years is the advent of ‘small cells’. Small cells (a term which encompasses femto-, pico- and microcells) have become increasingly popular in larger enterprises, shopping malls and airports, where there is demand for 2G, 3G and LTE mobile services inside large buildings. The development of small cells has ...

Richard Wilson discovered why interest in PXI-based modular test systems is growing, during a visit to the National Electronics Week exhibition PXI modular test system suppliers were attempting, and probably succeeding in, a takeover of the National Electronics Week exhibition in Birmingham last week. The exhibition had an area dedicated to suppliers of PXI system hardware. PXI is also being ...

The next generation 5G mobile phone technologies will be the first to make extensive use of modular test and design platforms for its development. The scale of the signal processing required for the multi-gigabit radio channels expected to be needed for 5G, will need highly scalable systems for development and simulation. With technical specifications not expected to be finalised for ...

Recom has an EMC laboratory that can be used by customers and students in its new headquarters building in Austria. The company intends to expand on its EMC services in the future by providing customers with consultation in preparation for certification. This may be of particular interest to universities and other higher education institutions as they often lack suitable measuring ...

Imec, Ghent University and the Max Planck Institute in Garching have realised a frequency comb light source in the mid-IR wavelength band.