Testing

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.

An accident alert system based on the Russian satellite-based positioning system called ERA-GLONASS is being used by car makers in Europe. The ERA-GLONASS system works much like the European Union’s eCall system. When an accident occurs, the system in the vehicle connects with a public safety answering point via the local wireless communications network and transmits a specified set of data ...

Rohde & Schwarz has added an analysis capability for voice over LTE (VoLTE) data and media traffic as an upgrade option for its CMW500 wideband radio communication tester. The IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) server upgrade allows for verifying the IMS and VoLTE functionality of mobile devices. Mobile World Congress: Your Electronics Weekly guide » IMS is used in LTE networks ...

Keysight Technologies has announced custom waveform creation software for 5G applications. Called N7608B Signal Studio, it connects with the firm’s signal generators and arbitrary waveform generators. Mobile World Congress: Your Electronics Weekly guide » “In the early stages of 5G research, flexibility is the key to investigating new waveforms, frequency bands and bandwidths,” said the firm. “Signal Studio for custom ...