Switches are seemingly simple and ubiquitous devices, but selecting one—whether a solid-state device, electromechanical relay, or reed relay—can present challenges to an engineer...
Increasingly complex semiconductor devices are adding to the pressure to provide flexible, scalable, and low-cost solutions for semiconductor production. On the test front, companies...
Direct-reading attenuatorsThis vendor offers full waveguide band high-performance, direct-reading attenuators in the W-, E-, and V-bands. Model STA-60-10-D8 is an instrumentation...
Much has been written about the impending global rollout of 5G wireless infrastructure, and the profound impact that it will have on everything from mobile phone connectivity ...
Austin, TX. NIWeek took place May 21-24 with the host company unleashing new solutions for addressing the challenges emerging from 5G, IoT, and automotive megatrends. Luke Schreier...
Decades of advances in the semiconductor industry continue to drive an insatiable consumer demand for smaller, more powerful, more ubiquitous semiconductor devices—whether in ...
Achieving functional safety levels mandated by the ISO 26262 standard requires periodic testing of a vehicle’s electronics. This testing can be applied at three distinct time ...
Printed, flexible, stretchable (P/F/S), and functional fabric (FF) sensors offer significant opportunities for IoT and wearable applications. For example, A new wearable designed...
Wi-Fi is continuing its march into the center of connectivity for all things Internet and broadband, and service providers are starting to feel the pain points of wireless connectivity...
Data converters are at the heart of many products in an increasingly digitalized world—test instruments as an example. Teledyne LeCroy’s new WavePro HD high-definition oscilloscopes...
This issue’s cover story reports on semiconductor equipment, with a focus on test. But the equipment would remain idle without input from the electronic-design-automation ecosystem...
Warp speed ahead for data processing?Chemists at the University of Waterloo say that they may have discovered a faster and more efficient way to store and process information ...