According to an article on the IEEE website, the IEEE Signal Processing Society will offer free Web-based, DSP educational materials. Materials will be made available under a Creative Commons attribution license.
A lot of new material will be needed. The IEEE is calling for DSP experts to develop material that can be offered as a […]

Concurrent’s SIGnal Workbench is a dynamic data acquisition and monitoring system for rotational machinery, structural, and other vibration applications. The product provides everything needed for high-cycle fatigue testing: a real-time computer system, data acquisition input cards, programmable signal conditioning and powerful graphical test software for data acquisition control, data management, display and post-test analysis.
SIGnal […]

Pickering Interfaces has published the second edition of its successful publication– LXImate. The LXImate 130 page book provides an easy to read description of the LXI Standard, product availability, and its evolution.
The LXI Standard is accepted as the natural replacement for GPIB, providing an interface that applies the power of the Web to test and […]

This courtesy of Windmill Software….Dan
Excel has a little-used feature that provides great flexibility when analysing tables of data. It is called an Array Formula.
You can use an array formula

To return several values
To apply a function only to values matching your conditions.
To perform calculations on values matching two or
more criteria

An array formula […]

DATAQ Instruments DI-785 and DI-788 connect to and synchronize over an Ethernet to provide high performance and high channel density. Multiple units, separated by over 100 meters, can synchronize at samples rates as high as 180 KHz per unit by simply daisy-chaining ordinary CAT-5 cables between them. With up to 32 fully isolated channels per […]

PCB Piezotronics’ new series of pedal effort load cells are aimed at automotive test applications, including brake development, drivability, vehicle handling, and legislative & safety testing. Designed to measure the force required to operate a vehicle’s primary brake, clutch, or floor-mounted emergency brake pedals, the Series 1515 brake pedal effort sensor with integral cable is […]

This is from the 2/28/2008 issue of the Monitor, a publication of Windmill Software.
Excel Corner: Conditional Counting - COUNTIF
Excel’s COUNTIF function is often useful when analysing your data. Here are a couple of examples. They both are being applied to a column of data in cells B2 to B100.
To count the number of negative readings: […]

New industrial Ethernet Managed Switches are just one of many new products featured in the latest catalog from B&B Electronics. Designed for industry, these fully managed Ethernet switches have critical enhancements for factory floor operations - redundant ring topology for recovery in less than 300 ms, alarm outputs for system event notification, and dual power […]

Agilent Technologies has introduced two new options for its compact, low-power (less than 15 W), high-speed Acqiris 8-bit PCI digitizer to give users more options depending on specific application and budget requirements.
The U1071A-002 model option is an entirely new version of the PCI digitizer. It provides 8-bit, dual-channel data conversion, with up to 2 […]

Agilent Technologies is offering a series of measurement tips to help you make more accurate measurements. The first set of tips focus on making temperature measurements:

Tips for Making Good Thermocouple Measurements in Noisy Environments
Practical Hints for Making Fast Scans of Multiple-Sensor Systems
How to Select the Correct Temperature Sensor for your Application