Tag Archives: testing

Quadsat, the Danish drone-based antenna testing company, has launched its product range with an extended breadth of frequency ranges and the addition of uplink capabilities. The Quadsat range for RF measurement comprises: QS 1-18 DL (downlink tests, covering S-KU band), QS 6-24 DL (downlink tests, X – KA low band), QS 17-31 DL (downlink, KA band), QS 6-24 DL/UL (downlink ...

Harvard and MIT researchers have teamed up to prototype a self-contained saliva-based diagnostic Covid test that can distinguish between variants in an hour and is “just as accurate as the PCR tests now used”, according to MIT. It is called ‘miSherlock’, for ‘minimally-instrumented Sherlock’, where Sherlock is a Crispr-based DNA/RNA test invented at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Two ...

A customised communications protocol can be a boon in today’s embedded design work, but there will be analysis and debug issues that need to be addressed, warns Boris Adlung. Embedded design, and especially design work using low speed serial signalling, is one of the fastest growing areas of digital electronics design. The need to communicate between modules, FPGAs and processors ...

One for professional programmers or those very serious about their software development, I think: Google has released a "fluent assertion library" for Android and Java called Truth.

Presto Engineering creates bespoke adapters to increase the performance of equipment testers. “In most cases, Presto creates a hardware solution that is built into the load board so that a standard tester could be used rather than having to buy and charge the customer for a highly specialised tester,” said the firm. “Test costs are based on the time that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Used test equipment has growing importance in the market, writes Mel Porter, CEO, Livingston

Run-away popularity amongst consumers has forced Raspberry Pi suppliers Element 14 and RS Components to delay its introduction while qualification for CE-marking is undertaken. Raspberry Pi is the £25 educational computer designed by Cambridge entrepreneurs and academics to improve computer science knowledge amongst school-leavers. The initial plan of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the charity behind the computer, was to release 10,000 ...

Cree has introduced thermal simulation and photometric testing to its LED product support services. These extend the firm's thermal electrical mechanical photometric optical (TEMPO) service, introduced earlier in...