Testing

Agilent has increased the accuracy of the instruments to a level which could see them used more generally as benchtop analysers

Agilent Technologies has introduced its widest-bandwidth real-time digital downconverter option on the M9703A AXIe eight-channel high-speed digitiser

Proprietary baseband-tuning technology means its frequency and amplitude switching speed is 10µs in list mode and 250µs from its programming interface

It is easy to be dazzled by the array of applications provided by smartphones and to forget that traditional voice call and SMS functions are still the biggest source of revenues

The total harmonic distortion is less than 0.04% and non-harmonic spurs are less than 75dBc

Faced with myriad standards, sometimes engineers need clarification about the nature of the tests appropriate for each standard, writes Kent Smith is applications engineer with XP Power

“This is the first completely software designed instrument,” Luke Schreier, senior group manager for automated test at National Instruments told Electronics Weekly

Goepel electronic has introduced an I/O module for its boundary scan hardware platform that provides independently programmable I/O channels, and is able to process voltages up to 30V

The need for network test automation is apparent, but the problem is that traditionally network test automation has required specialist scripting skills with languages such as TCL, writes David Hill of Spirent Communications

Tektronix already has labs throughout Europe in Russia, Germany, the UK and the Netherlands and the new Orsay facility expands the company’s repair and calibration services in Europe