Instrument maker Keysight is conducting what it calls a North American test-drive tour at 30 cities in the U.S. and Canada this spring. We sat in during the stop in Cleveland, Ohio. Here’s what we saw.
Test Equipment
VIDEO: Connecting a Tektronix MDO 3000 Series Oscilloscope to a Local Area Network
A Tektronix MDO3104 Oscilloscope is networked via Ethernet and WiFi to a Mac laptop computer using a LAN connection. Greetings and welcome to our 65th Test and Measurement video. Today’s topic is a simple and highly effective way to connect a Tektronix Series 3000 oscilloscope to a Local Area Network. There are other options, but […]
Basics of measuring self capacitance
We ordinarily think of capacitance as a property of a device consisting of two conductive plates with terminals or leads, separated by an electrolytic layer. There is also unintended or parasitic capacitance, where two conductive bodies take the form of a capacitor and exhibit similar properties. An example of this is the atmospheric situation preceding […]
VIDEO: Converting Square Wave to Sine Wave
A 680 pf capacitor is used to make a low-pass filter, removing high-frequency harmonics in order to transform a square wave into a crude sine wave. Hi and welcome to our 64th Test and Measurement video. Today we’ll look at an easy and very inexpensive way in this Tektronix MDO 3000 Series oscilloscope to convert […]
Arbitrary waveform generator targets demanding advanced research, radar/EW design tasks
A new arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) is said to offer high signal fidelity and scalability at an affordable price point to meet demanding signal generation needs in advanced research, electronic test, and radar and electronic warfare (EW) system design and test. The new AWG5200 series from Tektronix Inc. offers an impressive set of capabilities not […]
Waveforms in oscilloscopes and elsewhere
Waveforms are patterns of signals that propagate through a medium such as water or air, or in the case of electromagnetic radiation, through empty space with no apparent material medium. (It is still not known how this is possible.) Electrical current, of course, can also propagate as a waveform. We call these patterns “waves” because […]
VIDEO: Automatic Measurements in the Time Domain
A Tektronix MDO3104 oscilloscope is used to demonstrate the use of Automatic Measurements as a troubleshooting and design tool. Greetings and welcome to our 63rd Test and Measurement Video. Today we’ll look at taking automatic measurements in the time domain, using the Tektronix MDO 3104 oscilloscope. First, we’ll need a signal to measure. A Tektronix […]
VIDEO: Tektronix MDO3104 Oscilloscope Frequency Domain Menu Elements
A Survey of items appearing in the Tektronix 3000 Series oscilloscope frequency domain display. Greetings and welcome to our 62nd Test and Measurement video. We’ll be checking out an interesting topic: the items that appear in the frequency domain display of the amazing Tektronix MDO 3000 series oscilloscope. These items are separate and distinct from […]
Raspberry Pi lab to get test instrument upgrade
Electronic instrumentation maker Tektronix says it will outfit the R&D lab for Raspberry Pi with the latest Tektronix high-speed test gear. Raspberry Pi’s new laboratory will focus on high-speed serial design and validation testing. The new test equipment from Tektronix will deliver the kind of bandwidth necessary to support any future high-speed interfaces that would […]
RF handheld analyzers optimized for LTE base station tests
Anritsu Co. has expanded its CPRI RF field handheld analyzer portfolio to address the emerging requirements associated with testing high-speed LTE base stations. Among the enhancements are the ability to display four unique A×C traces, as well as support for CPRI Line Rate 8 and 20 MHz compression. Available on select Anritsu Site Master, BTS […]