Test & Measurement Technical Features
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By Gary Raposa, May 02, 2012
Knowing the difference between watts and volt-amperes can help with many calculations regarding an electric circuit. Grab a multimeter and start measuring electric power.
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By David Maliniak, May 02, 2012
Agilent's X-Series signal generators aid in design of RF/wireless systems for LTE and/or 4G applications.
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By David Maliniak, April 11, 2012
At 63 GHz, Agilent's 90000 Q-Series real-time oscilloscopes offer the world's highest bandwidth. If you need to see the third harmonic of a 40-Gbit/s digital signal, this is the scope for you.
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By Jessy Cavazos, April 10, 2012
The healthcare industry is changing rapidly; test and measurement must change as well to support its growth. Jessy Cavazos highlights the trends in medical and how test must respond to keep pace.
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By Joel Woodward, April 04, 2012
Logic analyzers and oscilloscopes have coexisted for many years and test-equipment vendors can sell you either one or the other. Which one is best for you? Agilent's Joel Woodward cuts to the chase by laying out the distinctions between them.
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By Paul Whytock, April 03, 2012
Altera Corp. and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have jointly developed the world’s first heterogeneous 3D IC test vehicle using TSMC’s Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate (CoWoS) integration process.
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By Bob Zollo, March 30, 2012
Maintaining your bench supplies' output voltage in the face of rapidly changing or pulsed current draws is a stiff challenge. Agilent's Bob Zollo has some thoughts on how to solve the problem.
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By David Maliniak, March 29, 2012
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By David Maliniak, March 29, 2012
With the proliferation of high-speed serial buses, designers need ever more capable debug tools at the ready. Today's digital and mixed-signal scopes have evolved into multi-functional debugging machines built to give deep insight into digital signals.
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By Michael Lauterbach, March 23, 2012
Most users of digital storage scopes don't really use much of their instrument's capabilities and many could benefit from a tutorial on the fine points. LeCroy's Dr. Mike Lauterbach has the cure for what ails you in this article.
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By Erik Diez, March 22, 2012
We know that spectrum and vector signal analyzers give us deep insight into a signal's properties, but do we really know what's going on under the hood? What are we to make of all those specifications? Agilent's Erik Diez goes through the basics to help you get more out of your spectrum analyzer.
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By Staff, March 22, 2012
Agilent expanded its InfiniiVision 3000 X Series of oscilloscopes with four 1GHz models, doubling the available bandwidth for this family.
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By Staff, March 22, 2012
The K3 triggering and decoding option developed by Rohde & Schwarz for its RTM series allows CAN and LIN signals to be viewed at the protocol layer.
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By David Maliniak, March 22, 2012
Next-generation power semiconductors based on SiC and GaN pose measurement challenges. Keithley Instruments' Model 2657A high-power source-measure unit (SMU) tackles them head-on.
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By David Maliniak, March 13, 2012
High-voltage test concerns and a changing regulatory landscape are the dominant issues in test of medical devices and equipment.