EE-Evaluation Engineering articles from January 2004

EE-Evaluation Engineering archives from January 2004

Free for now.(Editorial)
January 1, 2004... Visitors to the Skype (rhymes with hype) website who want to escape the clutches of regional telephone companies with their seemingly ever-escalating service fees and dubious taxes will surely welcome the message posted there: "Skype is the new...

NI acquires DSP software developer; supports engineering education.(In the News)
January 1, 2004... National Instruments has acquired Hyperception, a designer of graphical development tools for digital signal processing (DSP). NI will operate Hyperception as a separate company in Dallas. As a wholly owned subsidiary of NI, Hyperception will...

VXI Technology initiates Online Microwave services.(In the News)
January 1, 2004... The Online Custom Microwave Configurator has been developed by VXI Technology to aid in designing custom microwave switch systems. It provides access to data sheets and prices for hundreds of standard microwave components from multiple vendors...

ESD Association selects directors and officers.(In the News)
January 1, 2004... The ESD Association has selected board members and officers for 2004. Elected to the board of directors for three-year terms were Tom Albano of Eastman Kodak, Joe Bernier of Intersil, Arnie Steinman of Ion Systems, and Steven Voldman of IBM...

Corrigendum.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2004... Reader's Resource In the Reader's Resource article "Improving the Needle-to-Haystack Odds" in the December 2003 issue, the last two sentences in the first paragraph should read: Not surprisingly, search engines have become capable of...

HALT/HASS.(Dates)
January 1, 2004... Hobbs Engineering will hold four HALT/HASS-related seminars during February and March. Mastering HALT and HASS will be Feb. 10-11 in Norcross, GA, and March 9-10 in Bethlehem, PA. The HALT and HASS Workshop is scheduled for Feb. 12 in Norcross...

ESTECH.(Dates)
January 1, 2004... ESTECH 2004, the 50th annual meeting and exposition of IEST, will be held April 25-28 at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. Two certificate-of-completion programs on contamination control, Filtration and Environmental Control and Operations and...

Tester conducts OTN analysis to 10.7 Gb/s.(Product Briefing)
January 1, 2004... The MP1590A Network Performance Tester performs SDH/SONET, OTN, DSn, and PDH analysis and jitter and wander measurements at multiple rates up to 10.7 Gb/s. Jitter measurement and external optical input functions are provided by plug-in units...

BERT supplies error-location analysis.(Product Briefing)
January 1, 2004... The BA1500 BitAlyzer[TM] Bit-Error-Rate Tester (BERT) and Analyzer provides detailed BER test and measurements and shows where and when the errors occur. The error-location feature includes bit errors, block errors, and error-free interval...

Spectrum Analyzer offers low average noise level.(Product Briefing)
January 1, 2004... The Rohde & Schwarz FSU46 Spectrum Analyzer features a frequency range up to 46 GHz, a displayed average noise level of -133 dBm at 1-Hz bandwidth, and a range of filter types with resolution bandwidths up to 50 MHz. It exhibits modulation...

Power supply family features 1U design.(Product Briefing)
January 1, 2004... The N6700 Modular Power Systems (MPSs) feature a switching design that come standard with built-in measurement of voltage and current to simplify wiring and design of an ATE system. They do not have top or bottom air vents so other instruments...

Readers choose the best products of 2003.(Readers Choice Awards)
January 1, 2004... For the 10th consecutive year, our readers have spoken. Following 10 days of intense voting, you have picked the best products from among the many published in EE during 2003. According to the results, the competition was close. But out of the...

Meeting the challenges of in-vehicle applications.(Data Acquisition)
January 1, 2004... The worldwide markets for vehicles of all shapes and sizes, whether land-based, airborne, or afloat, show similar tendencies. Design cycles and product lifetimes become shorter and shorter while customer expectations grow ever higher for new...

Taking the test tools to the application.(Communications Test)
January 1, 2004... Benchtop test instruments continue to set the performance standard against which portable equipment is judged. For example, how many hand-held digital multimeters provide eight-digit resolution and 0.001% accuracy? How many battery-powered...

Antenna Analyzers.(Communications Test Products)
January 1, 2004... The S331D and S332D Site Master Cable and Antenna Analyzers weigh [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Anritsu, www.rsleads.com/401ee-179

Modular wireless tester.(Communications Test Products)
January 1, 2004... The portable NetTek[R] analyzer supports interference analysis, power and error vector magnitude (EVM) measurements, antenna and transmission analysis, and T1 backhaul testing. In addition, scrambling code analyzer scanning functionality now is...

Navigation Test Set.(Communications Test Products)
January 1, 2004... The IFR 4000 Nav/Comm Test Set is a weatherproof, portable instrument for verification of ILS, VOR, and marker beacon receivers and VHF AM/FM and UHF AM transceivers. The IFR 4000 generates ARINC 596 selective calling tones and simulation of...

Patch-Cord verification.(Communications Test Products)
January 1, 2004... The DSP Patch Cord Adapter is available as an upgrade to the DSP-4000 Series CableAnalyzer[TM]. Because patch cords are purchased separately and not subjected to the commissioning requirements of permanent cabling, they often become the weak...

Digital and analog tester.(Communications Test Products)
January 1, 2004... The Model 404 is a full-function 1.544-Mb/s T1/datacom tester as well as an analog transmission impairment tester for two- or four-wire circuits. Two TX/RX ports support bidirectional drop and insert testing, and the line can be monitored for...

Reducing the cost of test with boundary scan.(Design for Test)
January 1, 2004... Despite its standardization as IEEE 1149.1 in 1990 and wide use in the industry, many test engineers and developers still do not fully understand the benefits of boundary scan test. The misconceptions regarding this well-established technology,...

Test Labs/Services Buyers Guide.(Test Labs/Services Buyers Guide)
January 1, 2004... Services Guide Acoustic Analysis Accurel Systems APREL Laboratories CETECOM Dynamic Labs East-West Technology Entela EST Testing Solutions MET Laboratories National Technical Systems New...

Selecting conductive form-in-place gaskets.(EMC Shielding Applications)
January 1, 2004... Electrically conductive form-in-place (FIP) gaskets are used as part of a flexible EMI gasketing solution for a wide range of electronic products. Many applications involve complex gasket geometry, where installation of separate elastomer,...