The new Agilent U1240A Series of digital multimeters (DMMs) from Agilent are designed for installation and maintenance applications. Key features include 10,000-count resolution, dual display, dual-intensity backlight, dual and differential temperature, harmonic ratio, switch counter, and data logging. The Agilent U1240A Series also provides wider usage for higher resistance measurements (up to 100 M-ohms) and […]

Audio DesignLine has been running a series of articles on analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs). Written by two engineers at Analog Devices, the series focuses on their use in digital signal processing (DSP) systems. Good stuff!

Part 1 introduces the concept of sampling and explains Nyquist’s sampling criteria and how to use undersampling and […]

My former boss, Jon Titus, writing for Design News, reminds us to isolate digital signals as well as analog signals:
Previous columns have stressed the need to eliminate ground loops that can cause digitized signals to include noise from nearby sources. Often, though, engineers may forget digital signals also can introduce ground loops that adversely affect […]

According to a new Frost & Sullivan study, military, defense, and aerospace end-user segments have always contributed greatly to the revenues of digital oscilloscope vendors. In recent years, however, the automotive and industrial sectors also play an important role in pioneering the technology and driving growth in the oscilloscopes market. The study, World Oscilloscopes Markets, […]

The Teradyne DC90XP is a four-channel floating, high power voltage/current (V/I) source and measurement instrument for the FLEX(TM) and microFLEX(TM) test systems. The DC90XP is designed to meet the precision high power and high and low current test demands of the automotive, power management, industrial/consumer motor controller and power switch semiconductor markets.
The Teradyne DC90XP provides […]

Digital oscilloscopes have sure come a long way since I was writing about them more than 20 years ago. Now, RF DesignLine has posted Part One of a two-part article, Tradeoffs and the Evolution of the Digital Oscilloscope, that argues that most, if not all, the limitations that plagued digital scopes have now been overcome. […]

LeCroy now offers FlexRay trigger and decode capabilities for the company’s WaveRunner Xi series of oscilloscopes. The feature correlates physical layer signals with protocol layer data in one display, and the FlexRay trigger hardware is completely integrated inside the oscilloscope. This not only provides a unique look into data on the bus but greatly simplifies […]

A report from Global Industry Analysts, Inc. says that the market for electronic test and measurement instruments will reach 4.0 million units generating sales worth US$4.5 billion in 2010.
The United States represents the single largest electronic test & measurement instruments market through 2001-2010. Sales in the United States are projected to reach 1.4 million units […]

Automotive DesignLine has a nice article written by Matthew Duff of Analog Devices on five mistakes to avoid when using instrumentation amplifiers. These mistakes include:

RFI rectification,
common-mode range,
voltage protection,
driving the reference pin, and
floating voltages.

The Agilent 82351A PCIe-GPIB is a half-height interface card for compact next-generation PCs that harnesses the fast data transfer rate of PCI Express to support high-bandwidth PC applications. The card provides a 1.4 MB/s data rate in a 68.9 mm (half-height) plug-in card. It also provides the flexibility of up-plugging, which makes it possible […]