Test & Measurement
Oscilloscope family gets bandwidth upgrade via software
The Mid and High Range Oscilloscope Series DS/MSO4000 from Rigol has been extended and it now offers the possibility to upgrade the oscilloscope bandwidth via software code license. Users can now start with a lower cost solution of the MSO/DS4000 family and can extend it based on future needs or applications. For enhanced application and measurement needs they can get much higher instrument bandwidth through an easy to handle software code upgrad...
Test options proliferate at Automotive Test Expo
A solution for testing automatic in vehicle emergency call systems will be a highlight on Rohde & Schwarz’s stand at the Automotive Testing Expo in Stuttgart (June 16-18). Based on an EU decision, eCall will be mandatory in all new car models from April 2018. ERA-Glonass, which is the Russian equivalent, was launched in spring 2015.
Battery quality analysis solution offers quick test
An analyser and data logger for UPS Battery field Management provides a single, quick, test to show the health of the battery at variable loading conditionings for Impedance, Voltage, Temperature and Current measurements (simultaneously or independently) with user-friendly software.
Oscilloscopes debug ability enhanced to meet ISO CAN FD
ISO CAN FD (controller area network with flexible data rate) decoding and triggering has been added to Keysight Technologies’ InfiniiVision 4000 and 3000T X-Series oscilloscopes. The new capabilities improve engineers’ efficiency in debugging the ISO 11898-1 standard CAN FD, as well as the original non-ISO CAN FD protocol.
Time-saving VNAs extended to broader range of RF test
The ShockLine family of affordable vector network analysers (VNAs) from Anritsu has been extended with the Performance ShockLine MS46500B series. It lowers cost-of-test and speeds time to market in numerous testing applications up to 8.5GHz, including designing and manufacturing mobile network equipment, mobile devices, automotive cables, high-speed data interconnects and system integration components.
Test approvals conference slated for July 15
This year’s Testing and Global Approvals Conference 2015, hosted by TRaC Global, will be held on Friday July 3 2015 at the Williams Conference Centre in Grove Oxford, home of the Williams F1 team. Nearly 200 of the UK’s leading testing and certification specialists attended last year’s debut event.
Radio communication analyzer supports LTE-A testing
The MT8821C is a new Radio Communication Analyzer from Anritsu for research and development testing of mobile devices (User Equipment, UE) with the widest capability for supporting LTE-Advanced. The analyzer also operates as a network simulator supporting LTE, W-CDMA/HSPA, GSM/GPRS/EGPRS, TD-SCDMA/HSPA, and CDMA2000 1X/1x EVDO technologies to run RF TRX tests in compliance with the 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards, as well as parametric tests.
Service program extension offers tailored solutions
A new Extended Service Period (ESP) program introduced by Keysight Technologies addresses customers’ needs to keep crucial test equipment operating over the life of multi-decade programs. In addition, the company is offering multi-year warranty assurance plans that enable end users to lock in peak instrument performance for up to 10 years.
Attenuation and switch modules added to optical test system
The AQ2200 Series Multi-Application Test System (MATS) from Yokogawa has been expanded with a range of optical attenuation and switch modules for applications involving GI50 multimode optical fibre. Multi-mode optical fibre has a much larger core diameter than single-mode fibre, which simplifies connections and allows the use of lower-cost electronics such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers&...
Software test tool eases data transfer
TESSY, the tool for automated unit / module / integration testing of embedded software, has been released in version V3.2.6. The new version enables convenient transfer of test data from one test object to another. This is very helpful if variants of software need to be tested. The interfaces of the test objects (i.e. the set of all input and output variables together with their types) need not to be identical.