The latest Electronics Weekly product news on test and measurement technologies, such as oscilloscopes, communication analysers, vector network analysers and test software.
Fluke has launched a pocket-sized thermal camera that plugs into mobile phones. It has a resolution of 256 x 192, a 25Hz frame-rate and a temperature range of -10 to +550°C (±2% or ±2°C). The camera has “real-time high and low temperature markers, with comprehensive temperature analysis for spot, line and area, supported with a thermal imaging app”, said the ...
Fluke once again has solar power engineers in mind with a pair of instruments, both true-RMS, CAT III and rated to 1,500V: the 283 FC digital multimeter and the a283 FC wireless ac and dc current clamp. These follow on from April’s PVA-1500HE2 and 1,500V 30A solar installation analyser and I-V curve tracer, and its less capable PVA-1500T2 cousin. “With ...
Pico Technology has added 16 digital channels to its 500MHz 3418E display-less USB oscilloscope, creating a model named ‘3418E MSO’. “MSO models offer engineers the ability to simultaneously capture and analyse both analogue and digital signals, perfect for mixed-signal designs such as microcontroller or FPGA-based systems,” according to the company. Minimum detectable pulse width on the digital channels is 5ns, ...
Pickering Interfaces, has announced a family of one-slot PXI and PXIe programmable resistor modules that can handle 2A, 200V or 15W. Models 40-254 (PXI) and 42-254 (PXIe) come in 28 variants, summarised as: two channel versions with various narrow resistance ranges, and then single channel versions with various narrow, medium or wide resistance ranges. PXI vVersions are compatible with PXI ...
Rohde & Schwarz is looking forward to times when nations mandate radar testing as part of annual vehicle inspections. It has created RadEst, a radar target simulator intended to function in the tough world of vehicle workshops. As well as simulating targets, the unit can measure radar parameters such as EIRP (equivalent isotropic radiated power) and occupied bandwidth. “With an ...
Keysight has introduced a series of 14bit general purpose oscilloscopes with up to 1GHz bandwidth. The HD3 Series is “built from the ground up with a custom asic deep memory architecture”, said the company, while also saying that it is “leveraging custom hardware technology from the UXR Series”. There are two channel and four channel versions, both with 16 digital ...
Juno is a neutrino detector under construction 750m below Jiangmen in China. A collaboration between 17 countries, 730 scientists from 74 universities and national laboratories have worked on it. At its heart will be a 34.5m diameter acrylic sphere filled with 20,000 tons of liquid scintillator, which will emit photons if neutrinos interact with it – neutrinos sourced from eight ...
Common switch-mode power supply design errors and their appropriate rectification are discussed by Abe Ibraheim, Kenneth Armijo and Piyu Dhaker. Power transistors have a minimum and maximum duty cycle which, when violated, will lead to worsened performance of the switch-mode power supply (SMPS). Furthermore, when the boost capacitor is neglected, the transistors will not operate as intended. Buck converters can ...
Tektronix has taken its TAP1500 1.5GHz active single-ended probe, and stretched its 1.3m cable to seven metres “with no loss in performance”, according to the company. TAP1500L is the name of the extended version. “Our customers can’t always have their oscilloscopes close to their device-under-test,” said Tektronix probe manager Andrew Mumford, “and the longer cable benefits customers who use flying ...
Anritsu has created a 9kHz to 54GHz spectrum analyser module that can be added to other test set-ups. MS27200A-0754, as it will be known, has 110MHz real-time analysis bandwidth, where it can can stream and capture IQ in 32bits, and -164 dBm DANL. That said, much of this performance requires options to be purchased and added. “The module is self-contained, ...
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