Test & Measurement

Intepro Systems announces the worldwide availability of its Loadsaver range of advanced, programmable electronic loads. Loadsaver offers all those involved with any aspect of power supply testing significant economic benefits by reducing energy waste by up to 85%. Conventional power supply burn-in and test systems convert the output power of the device under test into heat generated by resistive loads. This is an immediate waste of costly energy ...

Aeroflex will launch two important new products at European Microwave Week 2007 in October, a new PXI test platform that operates up to 6GHz and an internal pulse modulation option for its 6800 Series for radar maintenance.

National Instruments and the LEGO Group has announced the latest software update for the popular LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotics invention system. Powered by the National Instruments LabVIEW graphical programming environment, LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT software Version 1.1 now provides support for the Windows Vista operating system and Intel-based Macintosh computers in addition to improving memory usage on the NXT Intelligent Brick.

The GaGe Cobra family of high-speed digitisers is now available exclusively in the UK from TTi (Thurlby Thandar Instruments). Each GaGe Cobra Compuscope unit features up to two channels on a single-slot PCi card with 1 GS/s or 2 GS/s sampling per channel and 256 MS of on-board acquisition memory as standard - upgradeable to 512 MS, 1 GS, 2 GS or 4GS. Full signal bandwidth of up to 700 MHz with 2 GS/s sampling can be achieved on both channels. Up...

Keithley Instruments, Inc. announces the release of SignalMeister™ Waveform Creation Software for Keithley’s award-winning line of RF vector signal generators. Keithley’s SignalMeister is a free, PC-based software tool that creates arbitrary waveform (ARB) files that can be downloaded to Keithley’s Model 2910 RF Vector Signal Generator. SignalMeister is an expandable software platform with a common user interface that allows integration o...

TESEQ (formerly Schaffner Test Systems), the advanced EMC test solutions supplier, has consolidated all of its EMC calibration and repair services in a single new facility at Wokingham. Teseq have installed a new screened room antenna calibration facility and carried out a full refurbishment of their original one. TESEQ no longer use an OATS site for antenna calibration, a change in methodology made possible by having over 20 years of experience ...

Tundra Semiconductor has been selected by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Huawei), a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, to provide Serial RapidIO Switches to enable Huawei’s next generation production systems.

Aeroflex has announced an option for the its 3900 Series Digital Radio Test Set to support P25 Trunking. The 3900 Series is the latest generation of Aeroflex radio test systems to support current and future technologies for the Land Mobile Radio industry. The newest version, the 3920 Digital Radio Test Set, was released in June 2007.

Designed for data acquisition systems, automatic test equipment and biomedical instruments requiring fast, accurate measurement with robust signal conditioning over large voltage ranges, the AD8253 digitally programmable instrumentation amplifier is able to reach gains of 1,000 while offering dc precision and ac bandwidth unmatched by other in-amps or discrete solutions on the market. A large gain setting allows small signals, such as those from ...

E-Mon, the electric submetering market leader and manufacturer of the widely installed E-Mon D-Mon® product line, today announced its new “Green Class” E-Mon D-Mon electric submeters. Offering utility-grade metering accuracy, Green Class submeters are a cost-effective way to benchmark and monitor energy usage trends and to estimate CO2 emissions. Green Meters are also ideal for measuring and verifying the on-going effectiveness of LEED, EPA...