test instruments

The company has introduced 20,000 SKUs of products from brands Tenma, Duratool and Pro-Power for use in design, education, electrical equipment, manufacturing, repair and maintenance.

Instrument driver FPGA extensions, Xilinx 7 Series FPGAs and the industry’s first PXImc adapter module expand the LabVIEW RIO architecture to reduce the total cost of test.

FFT-based EMI test receivers can be used for EMI compliance measurements. This reduces the scan time by several orders of magnitude and allows longer measurement times and enhanced measurement functions like spectrum in persistence mode.

VICTORIA-based Universal Biosensors has been awarded the 2013 Manufacturing Hall of Fame Technology in Manufacturing Award.

RESEARCHERS from Purdue University have developed a new tool to detect flaws in lithium-ion batteries as they are being manufactured, improving quality control, battery life and reliability.

GARTNER says the worldwide semiconductor assembly and test services market grew 2.1 percent in 2012.

OPTICAL power detectors are in line for a boost, as researchers in the US demonstrate a spray-on mixture of carbon nanotubes and ceramic which absorbs laser light without getting damaged.

The majority of today’s oscilloscopes are designed with 8-bit ADCs (analog-to-digital converters). At the same time, most oscilloscopes include settings that enable higher resolution measurements. These controls are largely unknown to most scope users.

Electronics News talked to Victor Mieres, NI’s Vice President of Emerging Markets for Asia/Rest of World, about the latest developments in the industry, and how technology can be leveraged to turn potential threats into opportunities.

RESEARCHERS from EADS Innovation Works and Vienna University of Technology are opening the door to aircraft sensors which do not require batteries or cables.

RESEARCHERS from Dartmouth College have invented a second-hand tobacco smoke sensor which informs users, in real time, of the amount of nicotine vapour molecules in the air.

Richard Popple is the National Sales Manager of Test & Measurement products at Rohde & Schwarz.

SINGAPORE-based Hoestar has licensed technology from A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) covering wireless piezoelectric sensors for remote machine health diagnosis.

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland, College Park, have built a practical, high-efficiency nanostructured electron source.

High-profile controversy and set backs have dogged the Joint Strike Fighter program for years. But what’s the core technology, and what is Australia’s role in the development of the F-35 Lightning II?

Cable and antenna measurements are often used to verify and troubleshoot the electrical performance of RF and microwave transmission systems and antennas. Key to ensuring fast, accurate and efficient cable and antenna testing (CAT) is use of appropriate instrumentation and the right measurement techniques.

Technological limitations means probes are often the weakest link in the measurement system. An executive summary from Agilent Technologies.

RF instrumentation users will benefit from three trends that shift RF instrumentation to a trajectory that matches Moore’s law: advanced CM OS technology, greater FPGA use, and optimized design with modular form factors.

UK-based Equivital’s body monitoring pill was recently trialled by firefighters of the Victoria Country Fire Authority during a training exercise.

DUKE University engineers have developed a metamaterial sensor which can image scenes without using lenses.