Testing

One year-old lithium-ion diagnostic startup Akkurate of Turku Finland, which specialises in the testing, optimising, and analysing of lithium batteries, has raised €500,000. Investors include Finnish Lifeline Ventures, Suffice International from Hong Kong and the Lappeenranta University of Technology investment company Green Campus Innovations.  The start-up was born out of Microsoft’s takeover of Nokia. “The number and size of batteries ...

A group of undergraduate students recently proved that good EMC design techniques, as outlined in EMC Standards’ “good EMC PCB design” textbook, prevent project delays, risks and costs. A practical laboratory exercise for undergraduate students was taken from: “Teaching EMC using an EMC demonstration unit”, a paper submitted for the 2018 APEMC/IEEE symposium in Singapore. Students had to design a ...

Make a note for your diary, for a new Electronics Weekly webinar – MagicClick: The other way to an AOI test program

Rohde & Schwarz is working with Chinese fabless chip firm Unigroup Spreadtrum & RDA to establish a joint operator test laboratory in China as part of an agreement signed at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The aim s to create wireless communications and test concepts for both Chinese network operators and other global operators. Unigroup Spreadtrum & RDA had already ...

The message from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week was that 5G development cycles for chipset, terminal and infrastructure firms are accelerating with first network launches maybe less than two years away. An example of this was the demonstration in Barcelona this week by Keysight Technologies of its first 5G 4Gbit/s data throughput connection at 28GHz using its 5G ...

NI is teaming up with mobile phone giant Samsung Electronics to develop 5G test UEs for proposed 5G New Radio (NR) radio interface. The first public demonstration of this collaboration will show Samsung’s 28GHz basestation communicating with an NI test UE at next week’s Mobile World Congress (February 26 to March 1) in Barcelona. A first draft of the 5G ...

There seems no end to the challenges the Raspberry Pi community has tackled with its credit-card-sized computer – there are at least two in space, plenty hidden away inside industrial equipment and loads around the globe educating children. Having spent a while recently trying to fix an ancient oscilloscope, it occurred to me that it might be quicker to make ...

Anritsu says software for its Wireless Test Set MT8870A now supports the new 3GPP 5G Sub-6GHz New Radio (NR) measurement standards. The enhanced 5G Sub-6GHz NR Uplink Tx measurement and downlink waveform software options will support non-signalling based 5G Sub-6GHz TRx tests. In December 2017, release 15 of the 3GPP standard was announced which defines the 5G NR standards. Mobile ...

Anritsu has extended its partnership with Dutch certified service provider Trescal to provide calibration and repair services for its handheld RF instruments. This will include the Site Master range of handheld cable and antenna analysers, and the Master series of handheld vector network and spectrum analysers. Anritsu will also provide Trescal with ongoing training and certification to support Anritsu products. ...

Keysight Technologies has formed a partnership with millimetre-wave start-up Movandi for the testing of its RF front-end which incorporates antenna and beamforming for 5G small cell and basestations. California-based Movandi will use Keysight’s esting and measurement tools in the development, qualification, and manufacturing of mmWave RF and antenna technologies. Movandi will also provide antenna arrays to Keysight to support the ...