Test & Measurement

Segger has made a four channel version of is Flasher Hub production IC programmer to save space on the production floor. ‘Flasher Hub-4’ is a compact version of Flasher Hub-12, measuring 125 x 78 x 25mm. “It is just a little bigger than a standard deck of cards, making it the most compact and efficient control unit on the market ...

Fluke is aiming at mid-sized solar power installations with PVA-1500HE2, an analyser and I-V curve tracer rated at 1.5kVdc and 30A. “Similar products can often struggle to obtain accurate readings due to high capacitance levels and are incapable of recording data continuously without overheating,” claimed the company. “Having to disconnect an I-V curve tracer until it cools down is disruptive. ...

We caught up with Siglent in Nuremberg at Embedded World 2024 as part of our promotional coverage for the event. Thomas Rottach – Sales & Marketing Director of Siglent – discusses presenting the company’s new flagship oscilloscope, the SDS7000A, at the show. He covers, for example, its 4GHz frequency range and vertical resolution of 12 bits, enabling the company to ...

Historically, component temperature has been correlated with reliability, with early studies relating field failure rates to steady-state component temperature. More recently, physics-based reliability prediction has related failure rates of electronic assemblies to the magnitude of temperature change over an operational cycle (power-on, power-off, power-on…) and rate of temperature change, both of which are influenced by steady-state operating temperature. Electronics failures ...

Quadsat, the Danish drone-based antenna testing company, has launched its product range with an extended breadth of frequency ranges and the addition of uplink capabilities. The Quadsat range for RF measurement comprises: QS 1-18 DL (downlink tests, covering S-KU band), QS 6-24 DL (downlink tests, X – KA low band), QS 17-31 DL (downlink, KA band), QS 6-24 DL/UL (downlink ...

Toshiba is eyeing semiconductor test applications with a tiny photo-relay that operates at 1.6Vin “making it suitable for use with 1.8V FPGAs”, according to the company. “A resistor is built in on the primary side, enabling voltage-controlled operation.” Called TLP3412SRLA, it draws 6.6mA at the nominal operating voltage of 1.8V. Inside is a single Form-A (normally-open) ac or dc contact that ...

Transient gate overvoltage ringing during turn-on is a common phenomenon in GaN-based power converters, but a lifetime equation can account for all bias conditions with respective fractional lifetime, say Shengke Zhang, Han Gao and Siddhesh Gajare. Gate overvoltage spikes during device turn-on transients are commonly observed in GaN HEMTs (high electron mobility transistors) under high frequency, fast-switching conversion applications. The ...

MikroElektronika has announced a shield board that adapts its Click modules to Red Pitaya, the FPGA software-defined instrument and development tool, “The size of a credit card, Red Pitaya combines the functionalities of oscilloscope, signal generator and spectrum analyzer with programming capabilities and open-source software,” said MikroE. There are two sockets for Click boards (each with switchable 3.3 and 5V ...

Zurich Instruments has introduced three 8GHz instruments for controlling and analysing microwave-implemented qubits. “The product line, SHF+, enables high-fidelity qubit control for more reliable manipulation of fragile quantum states,” according to the company. “The ‘+’ versions receive a newly designed analogue front-end with reduced noise floor and phase noise.” SHFSG+ is an 8.5GHz signal generator with four or eight channels, depending ...

Pico Technology has introduced a 3GHz bandwidth display-less oscilloscope with 10Gsample/s maximum performance. Called PicoScope 6428E-D, it has four 50Ω input channels and four input ranges per channel (±50, ±100, ±200 and ±500mV). Maximum vertical resolution is 12bits. “The new oscilloscope extends the capabilities of the existing PicoScope 6000E Series, making it an ideal tool for scientists and researchers working ...