Anokiwave, Inc., an innovative company providing highly integrated IC solutions for millimeter-wave (mmW) markets and Active Antenna based solutions, today announced the opening of a millimeter wave design verification laboratory in its San Diego office. The new laboratory enables rapid characterization of Anokiwave’s world-class product portfolio mmW ICs for 5G, SATCOM, and RADAR markets. The […]
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Latest enhancements to LabVIEW NXG include WebVI, expanded instrument coverage
A new release of LabVIEW NXG, the next generation of LabVIEW engineering system design software, adds new functions and augments long-standing benefits, particularly for engineers developing, deploying and managing automated test and measurement systems. This release introduces the WebVI, a VI type for building web-based user interfaces (UIs) that can be deployed to any web […]
Real-time spectrum analyzers come in 3.2-GHz and 6.5-GHz models
The New RSA5000 Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer provides Resolution Bandwidth (RBW) down to 1 Hz, a noise floor as low as -165 dBm, and a full-span sweep as fast as 1 msec. In addition, the analyzer features up to 40 MHz of real-time bandwidth, a minimum probability of intercept (POI) of 7.45 µsec, seven rich visualization […]
Making best use of acquisition memory in digital storage oscilloscopes
A typical computer contains at least two separate memory substructures: random-access memory (RAM) and read-only memory (ROM). The digital storage oscilloscope (DSO) also has two types of memory: acquisition and display memory, but beyond that the comparison is tenuous. In talking about a DSO, memory generally refers to acquisition memory. The highly complex interaction between […]
Compact 6 GHz USB RF vector spectrum analyzer
The Triarchy Technologies VSA6G2A Vector Spectrum Analyzer is an economical tool that plugs into the USB port of a PC and is controlled with the provided PC application software. It offers almost all the functionality of a benchtop spectrum analyzer. Its frequency range of operation is from 100 Hz to 6.2 GHz, with an amplitude […]
Care and maintenance of a digital storage oscilloscope
Today’s Digital Storage Oscilloscopes (DSOs) such as the Tektronix MDO3000 are capable of a wide range of complex operations, often involving substantial voltages from power sources having high available current. With proper care and maintenances, these instruments will last indefinitely. They seem never to wear out. Here are some suggestions for maximizing accuracy and longevity: […]
VIDEO: Signal Acquisition in the Tektronix MDO3000 Oscilloscope
Various types of signal acquisitions in a digital storage oscilloscope are examined and displayed. Hi again and welcome to our 81st Test and Measurement Video. For this demonstration we’ll return to the Tektronix MDO3000 oscilloscope and talk about the meaning and some details of signal acquisition. This concept is far more complex in the digital […]
VIDEO: Detecting and Measuring Short Distance Dynamic Signals in the Tektronix RSA306 Spectrum Analyzer
A PC-based spectrum analyzer built by Tektronix is used to receive and analyze short-distance dynamic 2.4 GHz signals that may create interference in the industrial, scientific and medical bands. Greetings and welcome to our 80th Test and Measurement Video. Again we’re focusing on the Tektronix RSA306 PC-Based Spectrum Analyzer. This instrument is an economical alternative […]
Basics of manual and automatic oscilloscope measurements
Other than displaying electrical signals in real-time and stored in memory, an outstanding capability of our modern digital storage oscilloscope is to measure those signals automatically or manually and to display the results. Metrics can appear above and below the onscreen waveforms or separately in table format. The accuracy surpasses, by orders of magnitude, that […]
Researchers demonstrate first data transmission through terahertz multiplexer
Researchers are heralding a technology demonstration as a predecessor to the next generation of ultra-high bandwidth wireless communications links. A research team writing in the journal Nature Communications, reported the first transmission of two real-time video signals through a terahertz multiplexer at an aggregate data rate of 50 gbps, some 100x faster than cellular networks. […]