EE-Evaluation Engineering articles from February 2006

EE-Evaluation Engineering archives from February 2006

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February 1, 2006... 8-Slot 3U PXI/CompactPCI Instrument Chassis with Power Module The PXIS-2630 Series is a 19" 3U PXI chassis providing seven PXI peripheral slots in a system. The chassis are compliant with the PXI and CompactPCI specifications and compatible...

The Copernicus Project.(EDITORIAL)
February 1, 2006... As reported in a news item published by the University of California at Riverside (UCR), a high-school biology teacher, while participating in a summer science class, had created a glowing onion by subjecting it to genes from a glowing...

Fluke names new president.(In The News)
February 1, 2006... Barbara B. Hulit has been named president of Fluke with responsibility for the Fluke Industrial and Fluke Precision Measurement businesses. Previously, she was with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as a vice president and director working with...

QualMark acquires Ling Electronics.(In The News)
February 1, 2006... QualMark, a company that designs, manufactures, and markets highly accelerated life testing (HALT), highly accelerated stress screening (HASS), and electrodynamic systems, has acquired Ling Electronics from SatCon Power Systems, a division of...

Cirris buys OmniTester.(In The News)
February 1, 2006... Cirris Systems has purchased OmniTester, a company that recently decided to cease operations. Both Cirris and OmniTester manufacture cable, harness, and backplane testers used by electronic manufacturing companies. Cirris will not build or sell...

International Test Conference.(Dates)(Calendar)
February 1, 2006... The closing date is Feb. 17 for submission of formal papers and proposals for panels and the lecture or application series for the 2006 International Test Conference. The conference will focus on the challenges of providing high-quality,...

Environmental test seminars.(Dates)(Calendar)
February 1, 2006... Hobbs Engineering will hold three environmental test-related seminars in Tampa, FL, later this winter: Design for Reliability on Mar. 20-21; Comprehensive HALT and HASS on Mar. 22-23, and HALT and HASS Workshop on Mar. 24. www.hobbsengr.com

Communications Test.(Corrigendum)(Correction Notice)
February 1, 2006... In the article "Communications Test Advances" in the January issue, headings were omitted from Table 1 on page 30. The correct version of Table 1 appears here. In addition, headings were omitted from the top of the chart on page 35. It should...

Scope series provides deep memory capture.(Product Briefing)
February 1, 2006... The Infiniium 8000 Series includes four digital storage and mixed-signal oscilloscopes powered by next-generation MegaZoom technology. The 600-MHz and 1-GHz models feature an open Windows XP Pro architecture with standard connectivity including...

Scopes feature 12.1" displays.(Product Briefing)
February 1, 2006... The DPO7000 Series of digital phosphor oscilloscopes (DPOs) features sample rates of 10 GS/s on four channels and up to 16x real-time oversampling on one channel and 4x on four channels simultaneously. The 500-MHz DPO7054, 1-GHz DPO7104, and...

Software speeds up test execution.(Product Briefing)
February 1, 2006... LabWindows/CVI Version 8.0, an ANSI C development environment for test and automation, provides configuration templates for Intel, Microsoft, and Borland optimizing compilers to produce faster running code. It enhances its real-time...

Tester targets semiconductor memories.(Product Briefing)
February 1, 2006... The MS5205 Memory Test System is designed for engineering test, analysis, and bitmapping applications for semiconductor memories. It addresses flash and DRAM memories and, with expanded logic test capability, tests embedded memory and mixed...

Scopes offer user interface in nine languages.(Product Briefing)
February 1, 2006... The small-footprint WaveRunner[R] Xi Series Oscilloscopes feature 10.4" displays and standard 2-Mpoint/ch memory with optional memory up to 24 Mpoint/Ch interleaved, which equates to a 400-[micro]s capture time at maximum sample rate. A...

Managing growth in the high-tech industry: the size of your company dictates your approach to developing successful employee partnerships.(MANAGER'S FORUM)
February 1, 2006... High technology companies, specifically electronic manufacturers, vary in many ways. Corporate culture differs from company to company. These are factors to consider before joining a company. Over the span of my 30-year career, I have...

Full-function DMMs streamline test systems: the term DMM hardly seems adequate to describe such a key system component.(DMMs)
February 1, 2006... Electronics engineers and technicians often rely on hand-held or benchtop digital multimeters (DMMs) during product development and troubleshooting. Are the power supply voltages correct? What's the rms value of the AC input? As the ambient...

Analyzing and troubleshooting serial data buses: when looking at protocol information on a bus, an oscilloscope may not be the first instrument to come to mind-until now.(OSCILLOSCOPES)
February 1, 2006... As most engineers know, digital oscilloscopes are an indispensable instrument for viewing and analyzing electrical signals--the hammer, if you will, in an electrical engineer's toolbox. But it may not be well known that oscilloscopes, in...

Wafer-level high-power device testing: keeping an IC cool takes on new meaning when power dissipation exceeds 150 watts.(WAFER TEST)
February 1, 2006... Innovative electrical and mechanical solutions to new wafer testing challenges continue to be developed. For example, the need to position large quantities of contacts very close to each other is being approached through micro...

Gigabit Ethernet: coming to a camera near you: an AOI application based on GigE connectivity opens up a whole new range of configuration options.(AUTOMATED OPTICAL INSPECTION)
February 1, 2006... For want of lower cost, more flexible alternatives, the automated optical inspection (AOI) industry has been designing its high-performance applications around short-reach, point-to-point image transfer protocols like Camera Link[TM] and...

PC-Based Test Buyers Guide.(Buyers Guide)
February 1, 2006... EE's PC-Based Test Buyers Guide is a comprehensive, up-to-date listing of the companies that offer PC-based test products. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The guide is arranged in two sections. First is a product/company cross-reference. The...

PC-Based Test Buyers Guide.(A-Z)(Buyers Guide)
February 1, 2006... Company Guide ACCES I/O Products CA 800-326-1649 www.accesio.com Acculogic MA 781-937-5907 www.acculogic.com ACME Portable Machines CA 626-610-1888 www.acmeportable.com Acqiris USA NY...

The new EMC Directive are you ready? With adoption of the new EMC Directive less than two years away, find out how the changes will affect your products entering European markets.(EMC STANDARDS)
February 1, 2006... The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union have adopted EMC Directive 2004/108/EC. As of July 20, 2007, EMC Directive 89/336/EEC will be repealed, and any reference thereto will be construed as meaning the new directive....

Technology Roadmap sees higher sensitivity to ESD: as real estate shrinks, today's boards have more capabilities but far less ESD protection.(ESD)
February 1, 2006... Sensitivity levels to ESD in electronic devices will drop so low over the next five to 10 years, according to the ESD Association, that manufacturers must act quickly and deliberately to ensure their ESD control programs can handle the new...

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February 1, 2006... McQ512 trimmer Capacitor Tusonix's smallest Miniature All-Ceramic Surface Mount Trimmer Capacitor - the McQ 512 Series - is offered in an incredibly compact size for those applications that demand high Q and space-saving solutions. The...