Testing

NI is seeing its embedded design platform business, which includes CompactRIO, growing faster than the business as a whole. The company still derives majority of sales from its data acqusition and test product business which includes its PXIe modular instruments. The embedded design platform business was launched 10 years ago and it now accounts for around a third of company ...

Tektronix has released a USB 3.0-based spectrum analyser that plugs into a PC for its display and controls. Called RSA306, it has 9kHz-6.2GHz frequency range and 40MHz real time bandwidth. “As with nearly all areas of electronics design and test, requirements for RF and microwave test are changing quickly leading to the need for new instrumentation approaches,” said Tektronix general ...

Farnell element14 has partnered with Australian test gear house BitScope Designs to manufacture and distribute BitScope Micro, a dual-channel digital oscilloscope for Raspberry Pi. Also working with Windows and Linux PCs, and Macs; BitScope Micro is also an eight channel logic analyser, a signal generator, clock generator and spectrum analyser. Sampling rate is up to 40Msample/s, and analogue bandwidth is ...

Ask anyone from Keysight Technologies what the ‘new’ company is about and they are likely to say “measurement science”. Keysight Technologies comes into existence this month following the decision of Agilent Technologies to separate its life sciences and test businesses, creating the new company. There is a strong awareness for the company’s history in test and measurement technologies going back ...

At the 5G Global Summit, taking place in South Korea this week, Rohde & Schwarz will present details of a test setup for generating and analysing signals up to 67GHz, the millimetre wave band, as part of research for 5G mobile communications, reports Tom Wilson. The millimetre-wave test setup consists of the up to 20GHz SMW200A high-end vector signal generator, a harmonic mixer ...

Buying used instruments should definitely be on the radar of every user and purchaser of test equipment. It can offer very attractive savings on the new price, sometimes at discounts of 50-75% of the new price. Many suppliers offer remanufactured or refurbished instruments which are hard to differentiate from their new counterparts. At the other end of the scale, there ...

Cars are increasingly equipped with technologies designed to assist the driver in critical situations. Besides cameras and ultrasonic sensors, car makers are turning to radar as the cost of the associated technology decreases. The attraction of radar is that it provides fast and clear-cut measurement of the velocity and distance of multiple objects under any weather conditions. The relevant radar ...

Keysight Technologies has been launched with the electronic measurement business of Agilent Technologies now operating under the Keysight name. So what was once the famous Hewlett-Packard test brand became Agilent and now becomes a standalone electronics test firm called Keysight Technologies. This has been 11 months in preparation. The separation of the test and measurement business from Agilent Lifesciences was announced ...

NIWeek, the annual design and test technology conference presented by National Instruments starts in Austin, Texas today (August 4). Conference papers will discuss the application of NI’s design and measurement technologies including LabView, software-defined systems and CompactRIO in areas such as automotive and telecommunications to robotics and energy. Specific topics at this year’s event include dealing with big data generated ...

Rohde & Schwarz has started to market test instruments previously sold under the Hameg Instruments brand, under the Rohde & Schwarz logo. The rebranding of the lower priced instruments has started with two new instruments. Previously, Hameg products had a dual logo that included the Rohde & Schwarz name, but according to Roland Steffen, head of the test and measurement division, the German test firm believes it is ...