On behalf of everyone at the Electronic Specifier Group let me welcome you to the very first edition of our monthly digital magazine. Combining all the benefits of a print magazine with the advantages of the internet, the Electronic Specifier Digital Magazine brings to its pan-European readership a monthly selection of the very best products and the key technology news from an industry that continues to surprise us on so many fronts.

IDT, a leading provider of essential mixed signal semiconductor solutions that enrich the digital media experience, premiers the next generation Hollywood Quality Video (HQV®) Benchmark DVD. The de-facto industry standard test disk has been used by journalists, reviewers and consumers worldwide as a trusted source for evaluating the picture quality, processing and performance of standard definition and high definition products including displays...

Aeroflex today announced it has added new LTE measurement capabilities to its flexible, modular PXI 3000 platform. This latest addition enables production test engineers to achieve faster time to volume for RF components and LTE user equipment. The new solution leverages itself on Aeroflex’s track record in LTE testing for R&D and the proven yield and throughput benefits of the PXI 3000 Series platform in mobile handset manufacturing.

Aeroflex has announced it has added new LTE measurement capabilities to its flexible, modular PXI 3000 platform. This latest addition enables production test engineers to achieve faster time-to-volume for RF components and LTE user equipment. The new solution leverages itself on Aeroflex’s track record in LTE testing for R&D and the proven yield and throughput benefits of the PXI 3000 Series platform in mobile handset manufacturing.

The U.S. Department of Defense announced late last month that Aeroflex won a five-year, $40.5 million contract with the U.S. Marine Corps to supply Ground Radio Maintenance Automatic Test Systems (GRMATS). For this contract Aeroflex will supply its newly developed test platform, the 7200 Configurable Automated Test Set (CATS). The 7200 is a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platform for testing software-defined radios, including military tactical r...

Aeroflex has announced the addition of an internal pulse generator option for the 2023A Series signal generator. This new option greatly facilitates testing in EMC and radar applications by providing an integrated solution that removes the need for an external pulse generator and simplifies test procedures. In addition, Aeroflex has enhanced the instrument’s internal modulation oscillator to extend its stimulus capabilities.

Aeroflex has announced new software version 1.7.6.2 for the Aeroflex 3900 Series Digital Radio Test Set. Included in this release are a number of enhancements and support for the rapidly expanding digital land mobile radio test market across the globe.

Aeroflex has announced a significant new milestone for its TM500 TD-LTE test mobile, successfully achieving hand-off between multiple TD-LTE basestations during mobility field trials with a number of network infrastructure equipment vendors.

Aeroflex has announced the addition of new communications standards to its PXI 3000 Series modular test platform, now enabling communications test engineers to address a variety of 2G and 3G wireless data standards with a single, flexible, software-defined system. With the addition of the new Bluetooth measurement suite along with the new WLAN and CDMA2000/1xEVDO plug-ins for the PXI Studio software application as well as significant upgrades to ...

Aeroflex has announced the TM500 TD-LTE Multi-UE, adding a multiple handset (multi-UE) capability to its market-leading test mobile range supporting TD-LTE infrastructure development. The TM500 TD-LTE Multi-UE enables TD-LTE infrastructure equipment vendors to test the performance of their TD-LTE basestations (e-NodeBs) under loaded conditions, accelerating the pace of infrastructure equipment development programmes. At the same time, Aeroflex h...

Aeroflex claims another world first for its market-leading TM500 test mobile with the launch of support for the new 3GPP W-CDMA Release 8 Dual Cell HSDPA (DC-HSDPA) feature. Building on the Aeroflex TM500’s existing Release 7 HSPA+ solution, the launch of DC-HSDPA support provides network infrastructure equipment manufacturers with the early access to the test capabilities they need to speed its development and deployment.

Aeroflex and w2bi have announced that they have entered into an agreement under which they will pool their test expertise and technology for the joint development of a network certification platform for LTE mobile devices.

Aeroflex has announced it has expanded its flexible PXI modular test platform with the addition of two new 3020 Series high-power and compact RF signal generators. The 3020 Series are compact, high-precision PXI modular RF signal generators with integrated dual-channel arbitrary waveform generators ideally suited for R&D manufacturing and design verification of RF components and systems. The addition of the 3021C and 3026C extend the output power...

Aeroflex has announced that its IFF-45TS Avionics Test Set has received official certification from the U.S. Department of Defense International AIMS Program Office. The IFF-45TS test set is now AIMS certified to perform testing and validation on identification, friend or foe (IFF) Mode 4 and 5 transponders and interrogators. In addition, the IFF-45TS will perform testing on DME/TACAN interrogators.

Aeroflex has announced it has added IFF test modes 1, 2 and TACAN as standard features to the IFR 6015 Ramp Test Set, the company’s next generation of avionics test equipment. Compact, lightweight and weatherproof, the IFR 6015 is a battery-powered portable unit designed to test the operation of aviation transponder modes 1, 2, 3A/C/S including European Elementary and Enhanced Surveillance (ELS and EHS), TCAS I, II and Military E-TCAS, TIS and ...

Readers of Test and Measurement World have selected VI Technology’s Multimedia Test System (MMTS™) as the winner of the prestigious Best in Test Award for the “Audio/Video and Multimedia” category.

Aeroflex has announced it is expanding its communications test capabilities with the strategic acquisition of VI Technology, Inc., a leading provider of integrated baseband test solutions, specialising in audio, video and multi-media test.

Aeroflex claims a world first with the addition of UE CAT3 and UE CAT4 support to its market-leading TM500 LTE test mobile. LTE CAT 3 and CAT 4 data channels provide data rates of up to 150Mbps on the downlink and 50Mbps on the uplink, supporting the delivery of the bandwidth-hungry applications increasingly being demanded by users. The UE CAT 3 and UE CAT 4 support on the TM500 LTE now enables infrastructure vendors to fully verify and validate...

Aeroflex has announced commercial availability of its Synthetic Multifunction Adaptable Reconfigurable Test Environment (SMART^E) 5200 Series, a new, synthetic Satellite Payload Test Environment that includes hardware, software, test practices and support required by customers for a complete test solution.

Aeroflex has announced an agreement with Icom Inc. to provide automated test and alignment capabilities for Icom radios on the Aeroflex 3920 Digital Radio Test Set. Initial test capabilities will be focused on the IC-F9010/F9510 APCO Project 25 Conventional and Trunked Radios and the IC-F4029SDR Series dPMR Portable Digital Radios. The test programs will be expanded to include Icom’s IDAS Series NXDN compatible radios and D-STAR digital amateur...