Fluke Corporation was named a winner in the Digital Campaign category of the TED Magazine 2011 Best of the Best Awards. The awards recognize the best marketing practices in the electrical industry. Fluke won for the “It’s a Tight, Tight World” online promotion for the iFlex Clamp Meter. The program featured a humorous video featuring […]
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Spectris to acquire Omega Engineering for $475 million
Spectris plc, the productivity-enhancing instrumentation and controls company, announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire the Omega Engineering business. Omega is a leading supplier of process measurement and control instrumentation across a broad range of categories, including automation, wireless, test and measurement, process control, power monitoring, environmental and lab equipment. Founded in 1962, […]
Saelig Low Cost 60 MHz Deep Memory Oscilloscope
SDS6062 is a two-channel benchtop scope with a 10MSa record length for each channel, allowing zooming capability for investigating fast, intermittent pulses. This low-cost scope samples at 500MSa/s and includes deep memory, external, video-capable trigger, auto-measurements, auto-scaling, large 8″ full color LCD display, XY mode, auto-set, averaging, math functions, USB output, waveform storage, pass/fail output and […]
Agilent’s DSO5034A 5000 Series Oscilloscope
Agilent (www.agilent.com) has unveiled another compact oscilloscope from its InfiniiVision 5000 series — the DSO5034A oscilloscope. Offering 300 MHz bandwidth, a real-time maximum sampling rate of two GSa/s and a deep memory of eight Mpts, this four channel oscilloscope also comes with similar third-generation MegaZoom III technology offered in higher performing lab and bench oscilloscopes. […]
Important specifications in evaluating oscilloscopes
To maximize the design margins of an oscilloscope, various key specifications must be considered when evaluating it. Each specification can and will affect the margins. In evaluating oscilloscopes, vendors provide varying ideas on which specifications are the most important. The oscilloscope’s noise floor is considered one of the most important specifications when margin testing a […]
LeCroy WaveRunner 640Zi Oscilloscope
LeCroy (www.lecroy.com) has introduced one of the oscilloscopes from the WaveRunner 6 Zi Series, the WaveRunner 640Zi. This four GHz oscilloscope offers four input channels and a real-time sampling rate of up to 40 GS/s. One of the most versatile oscilloscopes in its category, the WaveRunner 640Zi delivers unrivalled performance, as it helps users finish […]
High-Speed ‘Scope Measures Spin Torque in Memory Devices
Submitted by: Cornell University Press Office Edited by: John R. Gyorki, Editor in Chief Putting a spin on it: Physicists measure current-induced torque in nonvolatile magnetic memory devices. Tomorrow’s nonvolatile computer memory devices that retain stored information even when not powered will profoundly change electronics. Cornell University researchers have discovered a new way of measuring […]
Yokogawa’s DL850 ScopeCorder
The Yokogawa DL850 is the next generation of the company’s family of ScopeCorders: versatile instruments that combine the benefits of a high speed oscilloscope and those of a traditional data acquisition recorder in a single, portable instrument. The DL850 ScopeCorder is an ideal tool for measuring physical and electrical parameters in application sectors such as the automotive industry, mechatronics, […]
Farnell/Tektronix’s expanded EMEA distribution agreement to include MSO/DPO3000, MSO/DPO4000B Series
Leading oscilloscope specialist Tektronix (www.tek.com), has announced a distribution agreement with multi-channel distributor of industrial and electronic components Farnell (www.farnell.com), to increase the number of products to be offered to customers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Under the new deal, Farnell will distribute a broader range of Tektronix’s oscilloscopes including the MSO/DPO4000B […]
Tektronix introduces new PCIe 30 Test-Solution
Tektronix, Inc. (www.tek.com) has announced a new addition to the most comprehensive solution for PCI Express 3.0. It offers physical layer transmitter verification, debug, compliance testing and characterization using Tektronix’s DPO/DSA/MSO70000 Series oscilloscopes. With this launch, the company now delivers the most complete and broadest set of protocol layer and physical measurement capabilities for PCI […]