Testing

More and more devices on the power grid must function smoothly without interfering with each other.

In October 2017, Arm introduced Platform Security Architecture (PSA), a set of hardware, firmware specifications, analysis models an open source firmware reference implementation for a scalable, secure IoT framework. The three initial pillars of analysis (threat and security analysis), architecture specifications for firmware and hardware and an open source implementation, are now joined by a fourth element, PSA Certified for ...

To make robot cars and autonomous driving a reality, we will need flexible development models

Seeking to measure high altitude winds 24 hours a day, the German Leibniz Institute for Atmospheric Physics (IAP) has created a lidar that can measure temperature and wind using returns from stray metals in the atmosphere at concentrations as low as one atom/cm3 100km away, according to German test and measurement firm Spectrum which provided electronics for the instrument. Lasers at ...

Demystifying EMC article for Electronics Weekly by James MacAlonan, EMC Product Manager of Rohde & Schwarz UK Ltd

Electronics Weekly has joined forces with Goepel Electronics to discuss the structural and functional testing of sensors.

Marvell has opened an EMC lab. The testing facility is CISPR 25 qualifie.

Farnell element14 has added  Aim TTi TGF3000 series of dual channel arbitrary function generators to its instrumentation range. The TGF3000 series initially consists of two models, the TG3082 (dual channel, 80MHz, 14 bits / 400MS/s) and TG3162 (dual channel 160MHz, 16 bits / 800MS/s), with two channels that can operate as independent generators or in coupled or tracking modes. Channel ...

Over 140 digitiser cards from Spectrum Instrumentation are being used to protection systems in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The needle-like particle beams within the LHC contain huge amounts of energy – 350MJ, about as much as the Flying Scotsman at full speed – and cannot simply be turned off. Instead, each is deflected and defocussed down a ...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is using twin robots to test reconfigurable 5G communications antennas. Among its capabilities, the system, called Large Antenna Positioning System (LAPS) can test transmissions to and from antennas located on fast-moving mobile devices – requiring coordination between the timing of communication signals and robot motion. “Measurements of antenna signals are a ...