Testing

Keysight Technologies has been launched with the electronic measurement business of Agilent Technologies now operating under the Keysight name. So what was once the famous Hewlett-Packard test brand became Agilent and now becomes a standalone electronics test firm called Keysight Technologies. This has been 11 months in preparation. The separation of the test and measurement business from Agilent Lifesciences was announced ...

NIWeek, the annual design and test technology conference presented by National Instruments starts in Austin, Texas today (August 4). Conference papers will discuss the application of NI’s design and measurement technologies including LabView, software-defined systems and CompactRIO in areas such as automotive and telecommunications to robotics and energy. Specific topics at this year’s event include dealing with big data generated ...

Rohde & Schwarz has started to market test instruments previously sold under the Hameg Instruments brand, under the Rohde & Schwarz logo. The rebranding of the lower priced instruments has started with two new instruments. Previously, Hameg products had a dual logo that included the Rohde & Schwarz name, but according to Roland Steffen, head of the test and measurement division, the German test firm believes it is ...

Agilent Technologies test and measurement business will rebrand as Keysight Technologies in August and Jay Alexander has been named as chief technology officer. Alexander’s appointment is significant as new product development was a big driver behind the plan to separate Agilent’s test and life sciences businesses, when it was announced last September. He will manage the increased investment which is ...

The cross-industry group promoting the LXI Ethernet-based test instrument interface is creating its first reference design which will be used by test fims to adapt their devices to the LXI bus-based instrument standard. This extends the work for the LXI Consortium from strandard development to practical implementation. The LXI Technical Committee will develop a reference design for use by the 50 or so consortium member companies. To ...

It is practical to characterise charge/discharge cycles of rechargeable batteries using an SMU (single-source measurement unit), writes Mary Anne Tupta from Keithley Instruments. Rechargeable batteries are commonly characterised using charge/discharge cycling, which provides useful information on internal chemistry, capacity, usable cycles, and lifetime. In production, this technique is often used to verify if a battery meets specifications and isn’t defective. ...

A programmable test and measurement instrument which runs open source software developed by start-up Red Pitaya can be bought from RS later this year. The board can be configured as an oscilloscope, an arbitrary waveform generator or spectrum analyser by downloading open source software applications from an online marketplace created by Slovenia-based Red Pitaya. The credit card-sized board uses a ...

A three-year research project, completed by the Rugby Science Group at Bath University and funded by the International Rugby Board (IRB), has contributed to recent changes in the law of scrummaging. With a view to establishing safer engagement techniques, the IRB selected Bath University research team to investigate the forces and motion of scrum mechanics in order to determine the ...

Aeroflex is working on developing test technologies for 5G wireless systems as part of its involvement in the UK-based 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) programme led by the University of Surrey. “The 5GIC programme gives us an excellent platform for collaboration with world-class researchers and companies in this exciting mobile communications field,” said Li-Ke Huang, technology manager of Aeroflex. Aeroflex will develop systems for the testability of the high-density, ...

Pico Technology has released an eight channel PC oscilloscope. Called PicoScope 4824, it has 12bit resolution, a USB 3.0 interface, an integrated 14bit arbitrary waveform generator (AWG), and is powered over the USB cable. Input bandwidth is 20MHz (50mV-50V vertical sensitivity, or 10 MHz (10 and 20mV) Sample rate is 40Msample/s/channel with all channels in use, which can be doubled ...