Testing

Unwanted noise is introduced in all electronic circuits and providing sufficient noise margin for Vcc and GND specifications is paramount, writes Howard Venning

To understand the benefits of using a mixed-signal oscilloscope it is helpful to see how it performs time-correlated acquisition and analysis of digital and analogue signals, writes Wolfgang Herbordt

Steve Bush takes a look at the industry’s fastest real-time oscilloscopes and finds some interesting similarities as well as differentiators. Bandwidths have soared amongst high-end scopes in the last 12 months, as all of the major companies announced fast four channel scopes with options to almost double bandwidth by reducing this to two channels. Just last week, Agilent revealed its ...

Agilent is claiming 63GHz real-time bandwidth for its latest scope, claiming it to be the world's widest. Called the Infiniium 90000 Q-Series, the top model has 63GHz on two channels and 33GHz on...

“We equipped this wideband, multichannel instrument with new broadband modulation, MIMO schemes and electronic beam forming,” said Mark Pierpoint from Agilent

LeCroy has announced series of function and arbitrary waveform generators. Called WaveStation, it includes instruments capable of generating signals up to 50MHz, offers a 3.5" (90mm) display, two output channels on all models, and...

"The fact that in standby mode the equipment is consuming electricity has been a major concern for regulators," said Terry Marrinan, Yokogawa's v-p for test and measurement in Europe & Africa

The boundary scan test system supplier’s emulation technology VarioTAP supports a wide range of ARM cores. MCU configurations supported include multi-processor and multi-core applications

The intention is to target microprocessors and DSPs with deficient or even non-existent JTAG (IEEE Std. 1149.1) boundary-scan test registers

With the government soon to announce a date for switching off the nation’s FM radio broadcasts it is time for digital radio to clean up its act, write Richard Morris, Wayne Dickson and Paul Harfoot