Test & Measurement

Juno is a neutrino detector under construction 750m below Jiangmen in China. A collaboration between 17 countries, 730 scientists from 74 universities and national laboratories have worked on it. At its heart will be a 34.5m diameter acrylic sphere filled with 20,000 tons of liquid scintillator, which will emit photons if neutrinos interact with it – neutrinos sourced from eight ...

Tektronix has taken its TAP1500 1.5GHz active single-ended probe, and stretched its 1.3m cable to seven metres “with no loss in performance”, according to the company. TAP1500L is the name of the extended version. “Our customers can’t always have their oscilloscopes close to their device-under-test,” said Tektronix probe manager Andrew Mumford, “and the longer cable benefits customers who use flying ...

Anritsu has created a 9kHz to 54GHz spectrum analyser module that can be added to other test set-ups. MS27200A-0754, as it will be known, has 110MHz real-time analysis bandwidth, where it can can stream and capture IQ in 32bits, and -164 dBm DANL. That said, much of this performance requires options to be purchased and added. “The module is self-contained, ...

Three bench oscilloscopes by Siglent, the SDS800X HD, SDS1000X HD and SDS3000X HD are now available from Telonic Instruments. The high-resolution oscilloscopes address signal fidelity, visualisation, and analysis with 12-bit ADCs, low noise, gain accuracy, and channel isolation, said the company. Bandwidths range from 70MHz to 4GHz, providing signal fidelity for a range of applications including power, EMI, frequency analysis, ...

Rohde & Schwarz is claiming the world’s fastest oscilloscope zone trigger update rate, using a dormant asic feature that can now offer of up to 600,000 waveform/s and has <1.45μs blind time between trigger events. Zone triggering allows users to specify trigger conditions by drawing one or more zone areas on the instrument’s display. Each acquisition is then inspected for ...

Teledyne LeCroy has added lower bandwidth options to its 8000HD range of 12bit oscilloscopes, which now includes models at 6 (8060HD), 8 (8080HD), 13 (8130HD), and 16GHz (8160HD). This bandwidth is available through the physically-smaller 50Ω input connectors, while the BNC connectors offer 2GHz (-3dB) in 50Ω mode and 500MHz in 1MΩ mode. They do not get the 1.8mm coaxial ...

NI has set out its stall for AI in the test industry. Following the announcement of LabView AI assistant at the end of last year (currently in beta testing), CTO of technology and innovation, Kevin Shultz spoke to Electronics Weekly about what will be the role of AI in test. He explained that the increasing complexity of products being tested ...

Anritsu has announced a pair of cable and antenna analysers with options up to 6GHz, one with a spectrum analyser. “RF cable runs continue to be an integral part of radio communication base stations, from long runs on broadcast transmitter towers to short jumper cables on cellular base stations,” said the company. With the deployment of distributed antennas systems, the ...

Rohde & Schwarz has introduced a rack-mount 2GHz display-less oscilloscope with eight channels that fits into a 2U (89mm) slot. It has eight 2.5Gsample/s channels that can be interleaved to provide four 5Gsample/s channels, and is part of the new MXO 5C series of scopes which have been cut down from the recently-introduced display-inclusive MXO 5 series. As well as ...

Intepro Systems is stocking a 50kW regenerative ac-dc electronic load and grid simulator from Cinergia. Called ‘GE&EL+ vAC/DC SiC’, Intepro describes it as: “The whole Cinergia catalogue in a single unit. [It] is both an ac and dc grid emulator, and can also works as a load [and] is ideal for testing solar panels, wind turbines, hardware-in-the-loop power, smart grids, ...