“This product is further proof that we are continuing to expand our modular portfolio based on the AXIe standard,” said Larry Desjardin, general manager of Agilent’s modular product operation
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Defence sector is key embedded design market, says NI
“Traditionally the military and aerospace markets may not be seen as high growth area compared with wireless and life sciences, but for us it is a high growth segment,” said Sean Thompson, NI platform manager for government/military applications
Anritsu analyser simplifies microwave measurement
Anritsu claims that the ME7838A is the first broadband VNA to eliminate the need for the MUX combiners used in traditional systems
NI appoints embedded specialist to go after rack and stack
“I believe the era of rack and stack has ended for test systems,” said NI's new UK director of marketing Kyle Voosen
Comment: Diffraction-busting microscopes without frontiers
Microscopes are good, but not that good. The view through them gets prohibitively fuzzy when you try to look at things smaller than half the wavelength of the light used for imaging; for visible light, that is anything below a few hundred nanometres.
TRaC to open £2m EMC test facility in Dorest
In September the test house will open a new location near Wimborne, Dorset. The facility will specialise in EMC testing for the aerospace and defence industries
Tektronix tests SiGe chip for 30GHz scopes
The Asics have been designed in IBM’s 8HP silicon germanium (SiGe) BiCMOS technology
LeCroy unveils 45GHz modular scope
LeCroy is claiming a number of firsts as it introduces its LabMaster 9 Zi-A modular oscilloscope systems: most bandwidth, highest channel count, and highest sample rate at up to 45GHz and ....
4G LTE mobile offers test challenges
Guest columnist C Raj Khanna, technology manager at Rohde & Schwarz, says that when several mobile architectures such as LTE and WiMax develop in parallel there are interoperability issues which must be addressed
Testing for energy efficiency
Guest columnist Clive Davis of Yokogawa Europe describes how measuring technologies play their part in the drive to design more energy efficient systems and products