Test & Measurement

Yokogawa is bidding to make the calibrating of power meters and analysers more straight-forward with its latest calibration instrument. Unlike Yokogawa’s existing AC calibrator, the 2558A, which required two separate 2558A instruments plus a reference power meter. This new calibrator combines these functions in a single instrument. The LR3300 provides an output up to 1250V and 62.5A with an accuracy ...

Smiths Interconnect has introduced a range of probe heads for wafer-level chip-scale package testing. The probe heads in the Volta series are used for testing the chips while in their wafer form. In the design spring probe contacts are used in place of cantilever and traditional vertical probe card technologies. The am is to create a short signal path enabling ...

NI has introduced a PXI chassis with a higher power rating of 58W per slot. This represents a 50% increase in power and cooling per slot compared to previously released NI PXI Express chassis. Fan noise has been reduced in the 38W cooling mode with a 13dB improvement compared to the previously released PXIe-1085 chassis. The PXIe-1095 is an 18-slot ...

Rohde & Schwarz has a test instrument which can be used for validation of radio devices using the sub-6GHz 3GPP 5G new radio (NR) protocol. 3GPP’s 5G NR protocol will ultimately support frequency ranges up to 52.6GHz, but initial 5G designs will use frequencies below 6GHz with a focus on 3.5GHz. For these sub-6 GHz carrier frequencies, 3GPP currently discusses ...

Nvidia’s ‘Cuda’ graphics processors, with their high bandwidth PCIe interface, have opened the door to fast, but simple, instrumentation-grade DSP, according to Spectrum Instrumentation. Spectrum is a maker of digitisers – effectively low-noise multi-channel ADCs, some PCIe-based. Cuda is an Nvidia parallel number-crunching technology, that allows direct PCIe peripheral to GPU interaction without the host CPU getting involved. “Currently digitisers ...

Spectrum Instrumentation has introduced a new generation of 16bit digitiser cards with a PCIe interface. Called M2p, they offered doubled sample rate and less noise compared with the previous 12, 14 and 16bit M4i generation, which they will replace. 13 new models are available for general sale, with different combinations of sampling rate (20, 40 or 80Msample/s) and number of input ...

Yokogawa has added a CXPI serial bus analysis to the range of option to its DLM2000 and DLM4000 series mixed-signal oscilloscopes. CXPI (Clock Extension Peripheral Interface) is an automotive serial bus interface that can be used as an alternative to the established CAN and LIN buses for in-vehicle communications. Its attractions are lower power consumption through electronic control its use ...

Netherlands-based TiePie is getting into EMI pre-compliance testing with a kit based around its Handyscope HS6 DIFF 1Gsample/s 14bit quad differential channel USB. Called Handyscope HS6 DIFF-1000XMESG, the supplied TP-EMI-HS6 probe set contains three magnetic field (H field) probes and one electric field (E field) probe, plus a tripod to position the probes in the correct position relative to the ...

Anritsu is supporting the testing of RF transceiver characteristics for 6CC CA with new software options for its MT8821C test system for LTE-Advanced/LTE-Advanced Pro terminals. The new software upgrade will support the implementation of faster LTE-Advanced/LTE-Advanced Pro network speeds: Carrier Aggregation (CA), which aggregates multiple component carriers (CCs). With support for RF and PHY layer measurements the test instrument’s capabilities ...

For those needing to remote control many TVs or set-top boxes (STBs) from one PC, RedRat has launched a device that supports IR and RF links – the latter via optional Bluetooth or RF4CE add-on modules – according to the firm, RF is being increasingly used to control 4K and UHD TVs and associated set top boxes, as well as to support ...