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Optimize digital patterns for worst-case testing

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Making Sense of RF, microwave power sensors and meters

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Bridging software and hardware to accelerate SoC validation

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Calibrate a power supply with a digital potentiometer

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Software tools ease AUTOSAR compliance

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Challenges of testing mobile memories

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Test op-amps for input bias current

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Calibrating amplifiers and ADCs in SoCs

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Best in Test awards highlight advances

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Extreme Design: When radar failure at 12,000 feet is not an option

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Prediction and negative-delay filters: Five things you should know

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Select Schottky diodes based on avalanche performance

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LTE Release 9 Technology Introduction

LTE Transmission Modes and Beamforming

Over-the-Air Testing of Diversity and MIMO Capable Terminals

Voice and SMS in LTE

Introduction to Data Acquisition

Courses and Webinars

Circuit Validation Using 12-bit ADC's in Wide-Bandwidth Digital Oscilloscopes

How to pass Compliance Test for Add-In Cards or Mother Boards according to CEM Specification

Wireless Embedded Systems: Troubleshooting Tips with the New Tektronix Mixed Domain Oscilloscope

Embedded Memory Test and Repair Solution: Keeping Up with Changing Design Applications and Shrinking Process Technologies

FFT and frequency analysis using an oscilloscope

Teardowns

Video: Tear down that Prius!

Safe bet: tire pressure sensors

Under the Hood--Extreme: Monitoring Gas Extraction in the Norwegian Sea

Body fat meter is thinly priced

Under the Hood: PXI-5152 scope a design hotbed

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Audio analyzer offers direct PDM interface for MEMS microphone testing

Agilent LPDDR3 application tests physical layer compliance

Eight-channel RF measurement broadens LTE analysis

Protocol analyzer performs DDR4 and JEDEC timing analysis

Scope module characterizes 10-Gb/s to 32-Gb/s designs

Rohde & Schwarz simplifies measurements on LTE devices

DesignCon 2012 test equip roundup

Digital oscilloscopes offer low price point

Demodulation software tests next generation Wi-Fi

Aeroflex upgrades digital radio test set

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EDA/IP Weekly Roundup – Feb 22nd

Brian Bailey

Agilent, Premier Farnell, Real Intent, Verific, Blue Pearl, Elliptic, Cyclos and Cadence made the lineup today. See here for their news…

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Assessing scope accuracy

Janine Love

How confident are you in your scope's accuracy in measuring the signal?

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You have to be careful when doing differential measurements (x-y) with the iNVERT function, there is ...

What’s the most unusual tool or fixture you ever made?

Bill Schweber

There’s more to product design and development than the product itself: engineers often have to improvise tooling and test jigs

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My most interesting test jig was an XRay phantom to simulate inserting a catheter into the human ...

Remember 'If Microsoft made cars…' jokes?

Rick DeMeis

For a split second on a recent test drive, I felt they had.

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Viewpoint: An Evolution in Design for Test

Brian Bailey

Designers relate to Design for Test (DFT) in much the way that small children relate to scary programs on TV: if they cover their eyes with their hands, perhaps it will go away…

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All good design methodologies have a 'Test early, and test often' mantra. The problem has been ...

What's in your emergency repair kit, besides tools?

Bill Schweber

It starts with duct tape, of course, but there are other small items to bring

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Brief history of scopes

Janine Love

I have been serving as interim editor over at scope junction and wanted to share a little bit of history that I dug up on the oscilloscope.

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Nostalgic about HP test equipment

David Ashton

Any electronics engineer or technical person you speak to will know about Hewlett-Packard (HP) test equipment. And many of them will talk nostalgically of a certain item they have owned or worked with. I’m certainly like that.

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What would you put in the next Nintendo Wii?

By rick.merritt on 04.25.2011

Nintendo pioneered the use of motion sensors in its Wii console. The company announced April 25 it will roll out its next-generation console in 2012 and show a

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Renting/leasing T&M equipment: desperation or salvation?

By colinholland on 10.06.2010

The companies who provide test & measurement equipment for rent or lease or even sell refurbished units seem to have a good business model. Do you, users and

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