Testing

Tektronix has claimed top slot in the high bandwidth oscilloscope market with a range of four-channel digital scopes with quoted real-time bandwidth per channel up to 20GHz and a 50Gsample/s simultaneous sampling rate

Keithley Instruments, long known for its stand-alone test instruments, has thrown a rather large hat into the PXI ring

The survival of technology businesses depends on working smarter not harder, and test is no exception

From wireless broadband, it is only a hop, skip and a jump to the logical next stage of having wireless connections between a PC and all its peripherals. Robert Aiello looks at practical test techniques

The Semiconductor Test Consortium (STC) has announced an initiative to enable development of automatic test equipment (ATE) peripheral interface standards

As the WiMAX standard evolves there is a demand for test systems for characterising and verifying RF characteristics

The original intention of WiMAX was to replace broadband cable and now with the adoption of the 802.16e-2005 standard, broadband mobile radio applications gains from specialist test systems

Software-based test architectures proposed by the US military are being adopted by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) as part of a plan to cut equipment procurement costs

Agilent Technologies and National Instruments have formed closer links which will see the firms co-ordinating test system software and hardware introductions

As ICs become increasingly complex testing is becoming harder using established techniques, according to Dr James Truchard, CEO of National Instruments