EE-Evaluation Engineering articles from December 2003

EE-Evaluation Engineering archives from December 2003

The issue is privacy.(Editorial)
December 1, 2003... Radio frequency identification (RFID) has been around for some time but more recently is getting a lot of attention as it finds its way into a number of commercial applications. Ultra tiny, some about 0.33 mm in size, RFID devices can be...

Software customizes DSO and MSO analysis.(Product Briefing)
December 1, 2003... The E2699A My Infiniium Integration Package customizes the company's Infiniium oscilloscopes for performing on-site laboratory analysis of analog and mixed signals. It enables applications to operate inside an Infiniium scope, eliminating the...

Production system tests NVM devices.(Product Briefing)
December 1, 2003... The Kalos[R] 2 (K2) Platform addresses engineering characterization and wafer and final test. Data rates up to 200 MHz accommodate NVM devices such as NOR, NAND, serial and embedded flash, Smart Cards, and integrated devices with large flash...

IC facilitates in-the-field updates.(Product Briefing)
December 1, 2003... The PTC Parallel Test and Configuration IC is a JTAG/boundary scan gateway device that supports parallel test and simultaneous in-system configuration over a standard 1149.1 multidrop backplane bus. The IC, designed into a blade PCB, is a key...

Selecting portable data acquisition systems.(Data Acquisition)
December 1, 2003... Although used in a wide variety of applications, data acquisition systems can be categorized into three basic groups: lab, distributed, and portable. Lab and distributed systems primarily are stationary; the UUTs are brought to the system. The...

Improving the needle-to-haystack odds.(Reader's Resource)
December 1, 2003... In the Sept. 2, 2003 issue of Search Engine Watch.com, Danny Sullivan tracked the different stages of search-engine development. Not surprising, search-engines have become capable of accessing billions of textual documents. As shown in Figure...

Communications Test Buyers Guide.(Communications Test)
December 1, 2003... EE's annual Communications Test Buyers Guide is a comprehensive, up-to-date listing of the companies that specialize in communications test, including ATM; audio; CDMA/TDMA; fiber-optics; ISDN; mobile radio; PCS and video test equipment; bus,...

Safety design and certification for test and measurement products part 2; part 1 of this article appeared in the November 2003 issue of EE.(Product Safety Design)
December 1, 2003... It is essential that engineers understand the underlying principles of safety so that they can design safe products. Safety does not cover the performance or functional characteristics of the product. Instead, the evaluation only has to prove...

A review of today's automotive EMC standards.(EMC Standards)
December 1, 2003... Automotive EMC standards are among the world's most dynamic. This especially is true today when companies around the world are working to harmonize their internal standards with appropriate international standards. In addition, many of the...