Keithley Instruments will broadcast a free, web-based seminar titled “Hall Effect Measurements Fundamentals” on Thursday, February 19, 2009. This one-hour seminar will introduce the topic of Hall Effect measurements as they relate to semiconductor materials and device characterization. To register for this event, visit www.keithley.com/events/semconfs/webseminars.

Keithley Instruments, Inc has announced the release of its 2009 Test and Measurement Product Guide. The 144-page guide offers details and technical specifications on Keithley’s general-purpose and sensitive sourcing and measurement products, DC switching, RF switching and measurement, data acquisition solutions, semiconductor test systems, and optoelectronics test.

Keithley Instruments has announced its ACS Basic Edition, characterization and curve tracer software for component test applications. The latest addition to Keithley's powerful Automated Characterization Suite (ACS) family, ACS Basic Edition integrates with the industry’s broadest range of source-measure units, Keithley's SourceMeter Instrument family. ACS Basic Edition, pared with Keithley’s proven line of SourceMeter instruments, replaces o...

Keithley Instruments has announced that it is developing a WiMAX device production test solution for two 802.16e WiMAX devices from Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited. This WiMAX RF SISO/MIMO manufacturing test configuration features Keithley’s award-winning RF test solutions, the Model 2820 RF Vector Signal Analyzer and Model 2920 RF Vector Signal Generator. The configuration will enable Fujitsu Microelectronics to perform a set of Tx and Rx tes...

Keithley Instruments has expanded its powerful SignalMeister software platform to now include RF signal analysis along with RF signal generation. First introduced in 2007, SignalMeister software is now the only software package on the market that integrates signal generation and analysis into one package for unmatched speed and simplicity. Furthermore, SignalMeister now has the capability of generating and analyzing both single-input single-outpu...

Keithley Instruments has announced that its award-winning RF test solutions, including the Series 2800 RF Vector Signal Analyzers and Series 2900 RF Vector Generators, are established in production with Ubiquisys, Ltd., a leading developer of 3G femtocells. Ubiquisys has been using Keithley’s RF test solutions as it ramps its femtocell production at Sony UK Tech.

Keithley Instruments, Inc has introduced the Model 3390 50MHz Arbitrary Waveform/Function Generator, featuring the highest waveform resolution and best price-to-performance value in its class. The Model 3390 is a flexible, easy-to-use programmable signal generator with advanced function, pulse, and arbitrary waveform capabilities. Superior signal integrity, faster rise and fall times, lower noise, and greater waveform memory combine to provide hi...

Keithley Instruments has announced that ip.access, a developer of femtocell and picocell solutions, has purchased Keithley’s award-winning Radio Frequency (RF) test solutions. ip.access has selected Keithley’s Series 2800 RF Vector Signal Analyzers and Series 2900 RF Vector Generators as the solution for its production testing of WCDMA femtocell base stations.

Keithley Instruments has announced its Series 2600A System SourceMeter Instrument family. They provide unmatched ease-of-use, measurement performance, and flexibility in order to speed time-to-market for its users, lower cost of test, and simplify the process of making high performance measurements.

Keithley Instruments has introduced the Model 2308 Portable Device Battery/Charger Simulator, a dual-channel battery- and charger-simulating power supply designed to provide the lowest cost testing of both the growing range of mobile phones with new, complex transmission schemes and other types of new portable devices that consume extremely low amounts of power. The Model 2308’s fast transient output response maximizes production yields by main...

Keithley Instruments is extending its lead in RF MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output) test with what it says is the industry’s first measurement-grade 8x8 MIMO system. The system is used for primary research of next-generation RF MIMO devices and technologies.

Keithley Instruments has announced the availability of Advanced Measurement Techniques for OFDM- and MIMO-based Radio Systems: Demystifying WLAN and WiMAX Testing, a new guide to wireless and RF testing. This CD contains useful and informative RF testing resources, including application notes, articles, white papers, and product demonstrations, to help engineers reduce their cost of test by simplifying and solving the most challenging RF measurem...

Keithley Instruments has introduced Keithley Test Environment Interactive (KTEI) V7.1 for the company’s award-winning Model 4200-SCS Semiconductor Characterization System. This software upgrade includes support for testing higher power semiconductor devices. With support for low-level device characterization through higher power devices, the Model 4200-SCS is the most complete semiconductor characterization analyzer on the market, making tough ...

Keithley Instruments, Inc. today announced a set of signal creation and analysis tools that extend its RF test capabilities to include WiMAX signal testing. Keithley’s new solution is built on a next-generation hardware platform that makes it simple and inexpensive to add support for new signal standards, such as 802.16e mobile WiMAX Wave 2 testing with up to 4x4 MIMO channels, without requiring expensive hardware upgrades or different instrume...

Keithley Instruments, Inc. today introduced Version 2.0 of its SignalMeister™ Waveform Creation Software, a powerful RF development tool with next-generation performance and usability. SignalMeister 2.0 features a new, “object-oriented” graphical user interface (GUI) and is the only waveform creation software on the market that uses a click-and-drag objects-based approach, allowing RF engineers to intuitively create basic and complex wavefo...

Keithley Instruments has announced a joint effort with Azimuth Systems, a leading provider of wireless broadband test equipment and channel emulators for WiMAX, 4G, and Wi-Fi (Acton, MA). Keithley is working with Azimuth Systems to deliver critical end-to-end MIMO RF test solutions to mobile handset manufacturers, infrastructure vendors, and service providers for next-generation LTE and WiMAX testing. Keithley and Azimuth will jointly discuss the...

Keithley Instruments has announced the availability of its Semiconductor Device Test Applications Guide. In addition to the Applications Guide, this CD also includes a large variety of semiconductor test application information such as applications notes, white papers, and presentations that enables users to reduce their cost of test while simplifying the most challenging applications.

Keithley Instruments has released the sixth edition of its Switching Handbook: A Guide to Signal Switching in Automated Test Systems. At more than 180 pages, this newest handbook covers the fundamentals of the switching function in test and measurement applications, providing useful, tutorial information on how to optimize switching test systems.

Keithley Instruments has enhanced its Automated Characterization Suite (ACS) software to include optional wafer level reliability (WLR) test tools for semiconductor reliability and lifetime prediction testing applications. Version 4.0 builds on the ACS software’s existing single- and multi-site parallel test capabilities, adding a database capability, as well as software tools and optional licenses for the new Reliability Test Module (RTM) and ...

Keithley Instruments has announced a partnership with the Institute of Mobile Communications (IMC) of Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu, China. The partnership calls for the IMC and Keithley to work together on joint research projects to expand existing applications as well as research emerging wireless applications and technologies.