Test & Measurement

Vitrek has introduced a 140kVdc 100kVac smart bench-top test probe. Called HVL-150, it is intended to expand the measurement range of the firm’s Model 4700 precision high-voltage meter. The probe has a proprietary low thermal coefficient attenuator that minimises the effects of self-heating (0.2ppm of reading per KV2), and low capacitance for ac measurement. Alone, the meter works up to ...

Specialist component distributor, APC Technology Group, announced its second acquisition of 2018, buying RF and microwave component, test and measurement equipment distributor, Aspen Electronics for £2.2million. Since 1974, Aspen Electronics has supplied RF and microwave components and test and measurement equipment from more than 50 manufacturers. The company also has a service facility to design, manufacture and test RF and microwave sub-systems ...

Spectrum Instrumentation has added twelve new products to its family of German-made LXI-based digitizerNETBOX data acquisition instruments. Designed specifically for situations where multiple signals need to be acquired, stored and analysed, users can select from models that provide 24, 32, 40 or 48 synchronised channels. Called the DN6.59x series, the digitisers are all based on 16bit ADCs (up to 81dB ...

Tektronix is offering four 8GHz channels on its latest scope range, with simultaneous 25Gsample/s on each channel. “For example, a DDR3 clock and three DDR3 data channels can be viewed and analysed simultaneously, decreasing the time it takes to fully characterise a design with an instrument that shares sampling systems between channels,” said the firm. The family is the ‘6 ...

National Instruments is aiming at 5G NR research and prototyping with two series of millimeter wave (mmWave) radio heads that stretch coverage of its existing mmWave Transceiver System, across 24.5-33.4GHz and 37.0-43.5GHz. “As the first phase of 5G NR wraps up and the 3GPP finishes defining the communications protocol, the standards body also has identified specific frequency bands intended for 5G,” ...

For displaying voltage, current and power up to 96kW, comes Murata’s DCM20 series of multi-function panel meters with 9.2mm digits. Red is standard, with claimed reading range up to 5m, and green or blue are options. In a one-piece 53.3 x 36.3mm polycarbonate housing, that fits into ‘0U’ and ‘1U’ racks. Threaded mounting studs and caged terminal blocks are intended to ensure reliable ...

MediaTek has selected luton-based Anritsu’s MT8000A radio communication test station to verify MediaTek’s 5G NR mobile communication base-band chip-set. It will be used from early phase pre-silicon verification through to commercial validation of RF, protocol and function for product launch. Anritsu designed its MT8000A to work with wide-band signal processing and beam-forming, supporting sub-6GHz and millimeter-wave RF tests and as well ...

Yokogawa Electric has developed a high-voltage analogue input module for data collection in the development and production of electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHVs). The GX90XA-10-V1 module provides measurement of multiple channels under high-voltage conditions as part of its OpreX data acquisition range.  For the development and production of EVs and PHVs, and on-board vehicle batteries, performance evaluation ...

Rohde & Schwarz introduces the SMB100B analogue RF signal generator

Anritsu has announced that the LTE-Advanced RF Conformance Test System ME7873LA has obtained PTCRB certification for RF Conformance Tests of 5 Downlink Carrier Aggregation (5DL CA) forming a key LTE-Advanced technology. With 5 Downlink Carrier Aggregation (5DL CA) when used with MIMO downlink throughput speeds of 1Gbit/s will be possible as 5G enters commercial service in North America and Japan ...