nVent Electric plc announced the addition of common North American voltages to the Rack Safety Plus line of modular safety and power distribution units designed to protect and connect electronics enclosed within 19″ cabinets. Designed in collaboration with Test and Measurement customers, these 19” slide-in units provide power entry, power distribution, and safety features that […]
Enclosure with internal PC houses network test equipment modules
GL Communications Inc. offers the mTOP Probe Hardware Platform for TDM, Optical and Packet multi-interface testing. This compact design features portability, and remote accessibility, making it suitable for field testing, monitoring, and troubleshooting network conditions. “GL’s Multiple TDM Optical and Packet (mTOP)Probe version is an all-in-one self-contained test instrument. The comprehensive mTOP™ Probe hardware unit is designed […]
PicoScope software adds SMBus and SBS serial decoders
Pico Technology has added another protocol to both PicoScope 6 (Stable) and PicoScope 7 (Early Access) implementations: MIPI I3C Basic specification waveforms can now be decoded, displayed, and analyzed on any PicoScope with sufficient bandwidth and memory depth. I3C is a medium-speed control and data bus interface for connecting peripherals to an application processor in […]
16- to 256-channel I/O card for PXIE and ATE instruments
Salland Engineering is addressing the challenges of finding the right balance between performance, density/throughput within the right available power, and cooling at the right cost per channel when building custom ATE instrument by designing the Instrument IP themselves. This enables customers to benefit from proven and available building blocks to achieve high performance and very […]
Tektronix teams with Farnell/Newark/Element14 on Shanghai trip, new oscilloscope giveaway
Tektronix has announced, with support of Farnell/Newark/Element14, a chance to win one of two prizes to celebrate the launch of a new next-generation oscilloscope; built for every engineer, for everyday use. Two lucky engineers have the chance to 1. be a VIP guest at the Tektronix Technology Innovation Forum in Shanghai in June 2019, OR […]
Signal Integrity and high-speed design challenges: interview with Mentor’s Todd Westerhoff
At DesignCon 2019, I met with Todd Westerhoff, HyperLynx high-speed design analysis product manager at Mentor, a Siemens Business. Todd has over 38 years of experience in systems modeling, simulation and signal integrity. Prior to joining Mentor, Todd held senior technical and management roles at SiSoft, Cisco and Cadence. We spent time talking about current […]
2.5W, 5W and 10W programmable resistor modules targeting ECU testing
Pickering Interfaces launched a new family of 110 high-accuracy programmable resistor modules with 2.5W, 5W or 10W power handling capability at 100V or as limited by power. Models 40-251/2/3 target applications that require accurate medium-power programmable resistance such as a programmable load for the testing of Electronic Control Units (ECUs) and fuel level sensing. These ECUs are […]
Ethernet data logger provides 1-wire interface for up to eight sensors
The TCW220 Ethernet data logger has two analog inputs, with 10-bit resolution and two discrete inputs. It supports a 1-Wire interface for up to eight Teracom 1-Wire sensors – carbon dioxide, 0/20mA, AC/DC current, temperature, humidity, etc. All monitored parameters can be logged on previous set time intervals and/or on alarm conditions. The memory is large […]
Pulse generator optimized high impedance capacitive loads
IXYS Corporation announced today the introduction of the PVX-4000-2kV-EX +/- 2000 V Pulse Generator by its IXYS Colorado division. The PVX-4000-2kV-EX is an air-cooled, high voltage pulse generator optimized for high impedance capacitive loads. It is well-suited for driving extraction grids and deflection plates for electrostatic modulation of particle beams in time-of-flight mass spectrometers and accelerators. Its […]
Infrared camera sports on-screen editing capability
Fluke Corp. introduces the new Fluke TiX620 Infrared Camera, joining the TiX640, TiX660 and TiX1000 models as part of the Fluke Expert Series. The TiX620 is an ideal infrared camera for the experienced thermographer. Its 640 x 480 resolution provides high measurement accuracy and 5.6 inch high-resolution LCD screen affords a premium in-field viewing experience […]