Testing

Digi-Key Electronics has signed a global distribution partnership with Red Pitaya. The distributor will offer the programmable test and measurement instrument specialist’s @HOME kit. It’s based on the Red Pitaya STEMlab 125-10, which is all-in-one open-source board, designed to be able to replace 12 benchtop lab instruments. The kit was created specifically for professors and students working remotely or at ...

A common verification methodology available to both RISC-V core providers and SoC teams integrating these cores is required, argues Nicolae Tusinschi of Siemens. Modern processor designs present some of the toughest hardware verification challenges. Verification is particularly challenging for RISC-V processor core designs, with many providers and many variations of implementation. The flexibility that RISC-V provides makes it especially difficult ...

Element Materials Technology has added EN 62368 wireless equipment electrical safety testing and EN 61010 lab equipment testing capabilities at its UKAS-accredited laboratory in Wimborne – which already offers EMC and environmental testing. “The laboratory’s capabilities will cover IEC 62368-1:2018 – EN IEC 62368-1:2020/A11:2020 and IEC 62368-3:2017 – EN IEC 62368-3:2020 wireless product qualification testing for product types including tablets, ...

Written by Markus Fabich, Strategic Marketing Manager at Olympus Europa   Advancing microscopy for electronics inspection Microscopes have formed an integral part of electronics inspection for decades, and are used along the supply chain to check that finished products or individual parts are within specifications. And as products and specifications have evolved, so have modern industrial microscopes. The latest inspection microscopes ...

Lockheed Martin and NEC have signed an agreement to extend their use of NEC’s System Invariant Analysis Technology (SIAT) for spacecraft development. With a focus on the speed and efficiency of system diagnostics, the partnership will involve using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) across product lifecycles. This positively impacts design and production phases of spacecraft development, says Lockheed, ...

For those working in the important area of embedded security, please note the forthcoming webinar: “Revolutionizing Embedded Security – Solving the Threat of Cyber Attacks”. It is presented by David Maidment, director of Secure Devices Ecosystem within the Architecture and Technology Group at Arm, and among other topics he’ll be examining PSA Certified and Root of Trust. The webinar takes ...

The Westcott Space Cluster in Aylesbury is to get a satellite propulsion test facility, the Science Minister Amanda Solloway has announced. The new centre is intended to enable companies and academics to test space propulsion engines at up to 1.5kN in high-altitude vacuum, an equivalent test altitude of 140,000ft, said the government. It will allow new types of more sustainable ...

Keysight Technologies has announced 800G test solutions for validating electrical and optical interfaces, supporting development of next generation data centre technologies. In the context of data-hungry applications – such as video conferencing, streaming and digital entertainment, delivered via wireless comms such as 4G, 5G and Wi-Fi – 800G technology is seeking to meet a growing demand in network capacity. The ...

Designed specifically for production line testing of speakers, microphones, headphones, headsets and consumer products with speakers and microphones, the APx517B acoustic analyser can be used by manufacturers as an integrated acoustic test system, says Audio Precision. The company claims that it reduces set-up time required to calibrate a test system for a new shift or to reconfigure a system for ...

Rolls Royce has announced a three-year project – dubbed REINSTATE – to develop innovative technologies for use in servicing and maintenance of jet engines, such as robotic snakes. These “snake robots” could travel within the systems to access complex parts, says the company. Acknowledging that it sounds like something out of science fiction, or a bad Hollywood movie, the project ...