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Scope, logic analyser, waveform generators and more from PC instrument

Digilent Analog Discovery 3

Powered and operated through a USB Type-C cable, Analog Discovery 3 is a 9MHz (or 30MHz) 125Msample/s 14bit oscilloscope, a logic analyser, an arbitrary waveform generator and more from Digilent. “Analog Discovery 2, AD3’s predecessor, has been used as a learning tool in hundreds of universities, and as a flexible benchtop tool by thousands of professional engineering companies and organisations ...

National Instruments up for sale

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National Instruments is up for sale and is carrying out a strategic review of its options. The company says it has retained advisers Bank of America Corp. and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz to review a range of alternatives, “including solicitation of interest from potential acquirers and other transaction partners, some of whom have already approached the company.” “Over the ...

National instruments launches ADAS data gathering fleet

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National Instruments has announced a fleet of vehicles for Europe, the US and China that will record data for autonomous driving research. The intention is to provide data for training, testing and validating perception algorithms and hardware. “ADAS data recording is one of the most complex challenges, as data from multiple sensor modalities – camera, radar, lidar, ultrasonics, infrared, IMUs, ...

NI’s 5G NR analysis software for Tek’s 6 Series B scopes

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Tektronix has released SignalVu 5G NR analysis software for its 6 Series B MSO oscilloscopes. The package enables pass/fail testing of the 5G NR physical layer to qualify transmitter designs per the 5G NR standard established under the 3GPP release of 15/16 test specifications. It includes signal quality measurements such as error vector magnitude (EVM), adjacent channel power (ACP), spectral ...

NI rebrands itself to Engineer Ambitiously

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National Instruments is rebranding itself as NI. With the slogan “Let’s Engineer Ambitiously”, the Austin based company has also updated its logo. You can read a letter from Eric Starkloff, president and CEO of the company (right), explaining the changes. He cites “the events of the last several months” as a catalyst for the move. So, you may notice some ...

170GHz test bed for 6G research

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Test gear maker National Instruments systems has announced a 110-170GHz software-defined radio for 6G comms research, built on NI’s existing mmWave Transceiver System (MTS) and Virginia Diodes’ (VDI) radio heads. MTS has modular base-band and IF components that can be combined with programmable logic (FPGAs) to build complex RF transceiver – such as MIMO systems with digital signal processing capabilities. ...