Test & Measurement

Three members of Siglent Technologies’ A-Line family are now available from Telonic. The first is the SNA5000A vector network analyser (VNA). Available as a two- or four-port device and with frequency ranges from 9kHz to 4.5GHz or 8.5GHz. It supports two- or four-port S-parameters and differential S-parameter measurements. There is also as time domain analysis option (the SNA5000-TDR). Users can ...

MikroElektronika has released its 8th generation of development board for rapid prototyping. Uni-DS v8 uses swappable boards for both microcontroller and peripherals, with its SiBrain-branded collection offerign a choice of MCU families including STM32, Kinetis, TIVA, CEC, MSP, PIC, dsPIC, PIC32, and AVR. To add peripherals, there are five sockets for the company’s Click boards, of which there are now at ...

Rohde & Schwarz has increased the top end of its SMW200A vector signal generator to 67GHz, and slotted in a 56GHz version between that and the existing 44GHz version. “The SMW200A is first to enable flat frequency response and 2GHz modulation bandwidth above 44GHz,” claimed the company. “The 100kHz to 56GHz option covers all currently used 5G frequencies, plus earth-to-satellite ...

To save bench top space, Keysight has added a voltmeter and a bunch of other instruments into a family of oscilloscopes that offer a choice of 100MHz, 200MHz, 350MHz, 500MHz or 1GHz bandwidth. “The 3000G X-Series adds eight new standard features plus seven-in-one functional integration into the same form factor as Keysight’s 3000T and 3000A X-Series instruments,” according to RS componments, ...

Yokogowa has revealed a power transformer variant of its WT5000 precision power analyser. WT5000TR is aimed at transformer manufacturers and offers 0.008% accuracy (power factor =1, 12months after calibration), making it “the world’s most accurate power analyser”, claimed the company. The analyser is delivered with calibration certificates from Yokogawa’s ISO17025 calibration laboratory, for low power factor measurements aimed at IEC60076-8 product compliance ...

German digitiser company Spectrum has introduced a dual-channel sampler board – an ADC board – that takes 12bit samples on both channels simultaneously at 3.2Gsample/s. Called M5i.3321-x16, it has 1GHz bandwidth front-end amplifiers with programmable full-scale ranges from ±200mV to ±2.5V, plus variable offset. Other models in the M5i family offer 2GHz bandwidth. The full input capacity can be streamed continuously ...

At PCIM this week in Nuremberg, PEM has exhibiting a Rogowski current probe optimised for SiC transistors and other fast switching devices, with a -3dB bandwidth of 50MHz and a 12.5ns rise-time. Called CWTMini50HF, it has a slim (3.5mm thick) 100mm sense coil with 2kVpeak insultation. “It combines a screened Rogowski coil, providing excellent immunity to interference from fast local dV/dt ...

In semiconductor and electronic equipment manufacture, the quality control (QC) process is essential to ensuring defect-free products that meet specifications and comply with international standards. Here, manufacturers rely heavily on industrial microscopes to ensure a thorough and reliable examination. While the visual inspection needed for QC can be costly and time-consuming, advances in microscope software are helping to optimize product ...

Spectrum Instrumentation has added driver support for the Nvidia Clara AGX computing architecture for AI medical instruments. This means that Spectrum’s digitiser boards (ADCs), arbitrary waveform generators (AWGs) and digital IO cards can be used with Clara AGX (right) for electronic signal acquisition and the generation of analogue and digital signals. “The Nvidia Clara AGX developer kit provides a platform ...

Danisense has launched a smart version of its residual current monitor. Called SRCMH070IB+, it has a USB connection to allow residual currents to be analysed in detail on a PC using Windows-based software. Oscilloscope and FFT frequency analysis is available (right). The product is complaint with the updated norm IEC62020-1. “This means that it can used for remote monitoring without the need ...