Test & Measurement

Sony has created a 61Mpixel interchangeable lens camera for professionals with industrial applications, such as those using drones for inspection, investigation, surveying or mapping. ILX-LR1, as it will be called, is box-shaped and measures 100 x 74 x 42.4mm and 240g. M3 screw holes allow mounting on any of its six sides, and there is a 1/4-20 UNC threaded (‘tripod’) ...

Teledyne LeCroy has announced a 65GHz 12bit oscilloscope. Called 8650HD, two 65GHz channels can be operated though 1.85mm 50Ω connectors, or it can be switched to four 33GHz channels. It is part of the 8000HD family of scopes, with six models from 20 to 65GHz, up to 320Gsample/s (two channels) and up to 8Gpoint of acquisition memory (200Mpint/s/ch is standard) ...

To address the stringent requirements of the latest microwave and mmWave testing, Siglent has increased the addressable frequency range of its RF signal generators to 40GHz. The SSG6000A has a wide frequency range of 100kHz-40GHz, even at high output power levels, claimed the company. It can act as a local oscillator and clock source, but is also an analogue signal ...

Members of the element14 community can sign up for an educational programme which the Avnet community is hosting in collaboration with NI. Called A Beginner’s Course in LabView and Test Automation, the programme is designed to introduced members to automated testing. The first prize is a year’s subscription to NI’s Test Workflow software, Pro edition, which includes LabView. The second ...

Ditronix has released the an IoT power monitor board for mains and solar energy, and a software development kit to go with it. Called ‘IPEC’, it provides three phase (3P3W, Y or Δ), split-phase, or three-channel single phase monitoring, and has an expansion ports that can be configured for DAC, PWM, MPPT (peak power tracking) or I2C outputs. “The board ...

Micsig Technology is aiming at mains and high-voltage GaN power supply development with a series of optical fibre isolated oscilloscope probes, with bandwidths up to 1GHz and risetimes down to ≤350ps. This kind of probe has no electrically-conductive path between probe tip and scope. Instead, the scope end of the probe and the probe’s head are linked by optical fibres, ...

Anritsu has cut down its ME7873NR 5G New Radio RF conformance test system to create a bench-top ‘Lite’ model (right) supporting 5G sub-6GHz (FR1) TRx test cases. “ME7873NR Lite is an all-in-one tester,” said the company. “In comparison to the predecessor rack models, the lite model has stronger test performance at a reasonable price as a result of cutting the ...

Dutch test gear maker TiePie Engineering has introduced a module that can wirelessly time-synchronise and remotely access multiple instances of its PC oscilloscopes. ‘Wireless multi instrument synchronization module’ WCMI-8 can synchronise series 5 and 6 of both the company’s WiFiScope and Handyscope instruments, at up to 400m range “combining them to a single instrument”, it said. The 868MHz module is ...

Yokogowa has added HCDR (high close-in dynamic range) mode and SMSR (side mode suppression ratio) mode to its AQ6370 optical spectrum analyser. Found in AQ6370E, HCDR mode allows measurement of a single longitudinal mode laser with a high close-in dynamic range – CDR is a metric important when developing lasers and optical devices. SMSR mode is intended to halve SMSR ...

Toshiba has introduced a photo-relay in a 1.45 x 2mm package that switches on in 250μs – 50% quicker than its existing TLP3475S. The new part, TLP3476S, is in a 1.5mm high (max) S-VSON4T package, has a maximum on-resistance of 1.5Ω, can carry 400mA (ac or dc) and isolates up to 500Vrms. 3mA is the maximum LED drive needed to ...