Test & Measurement

    October 2014
    Power quality events are a common occurrence in industrial facilities and standard “industrial” power supplies typically provide a level of immunity to these events.  The most common events are voltage sags (nearly 50%) followed by voltage transients and short duration overvoltage events or “swells” (a
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    Date:
    10/26/2014
    Simple handheld multimeters often have two inputs for DC current measurements. One input is usually for ranges up to 200mA and the other is for high currents up to 10A or 20A. There is no 2000mA range. So if you need to measure currents in the order of 250mA, you need to use the 20A range, which offers limited ac
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    Date:
    10/26/2014
    Consider this near-perfect storm: Many utilities in the United States have some part of their infrastructure that is more than 50 years old and long past its predicted useful life.  In addition, many utility workers are aging and approaching retirement, which means they will soon end their careers and take wi
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    Date:
    10/26/2014
    Keithley's wafer-level support includes high-voltage capacitance-voltage test for parametric curve tracer configurations

    Model 8020 High-Power Interface Panel

    Keithley Instruments, a leader in advanced electrical test instruments and systems, introduced their latest enhancements to its Parametric Curve Tracer (PTC) configurations that incorporate high-power SourceMeter Source Measure Unit (SMU) instruments. For test engineers responsible for configuring high power se
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    Date:
    10/23/2014
    IAR Systems, a leading provider of development tools for embedded systems, will host a pre-conference seminar in Kista, Stockholm on November 3, 2014. The seminar will cover topics such as efficient programming, safety traps in embedded programming, debugging and runtime analysis. Seminar attendees are also we
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    Date:
    10/23/2014
    Keysight Technologies announced it will demonstrate solutions that provide simulation, debug, validation and test for the fastest speed memory designs at MemCon, Santa Clara Convention Center, Booth102, Santa Clara, Calif., Oct. 15. DDR4/LPDDR4 Bus-Level Signal Insight Using Logic Analysis Keysight’s U4154B 4 Gb/s st
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    Date:
    10/14/2014
    Piocotest's latest programmable supplies offer continuous autoranging and power-sequencing capability

    P961xA Series programmable, single-output DC power supply

    Picotest, a leader in high-resolution test and measurement equipment, has announced the availability of the P961xA Series of programmable, single-output DC power supplies with continuous autoranging and power sequencing capability. The P9610A (105W 36V/7A) and P9611A (150W 60V/6A) offer features and performance not
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    Date:
    10/06/2014
    Teledyne LeCroy announced three-phase Motor Drive Power Analyzer software for its HDO8000 oscilloscopes. The HDO8000 mixed-signal oscilloscopes, with 8 input channels, 12-bit resolution, and up to 1 GHz bandwidth, are the perfect solution for motor drive embedded control and power section debug. With the addition of
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    Date:
    10/02/2014
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