National Instruments announced on April 29 that it has acquired the operating assets of Measurement Computing Corp., a provider of low-cost data acquisition products. Founded in 1989, Measurement ...

Do you know how to harvest data from your bench tools, like plotting bandwidth from your oscilloscope with a computer? It’s actually pretty easy. Many bench tools make this easy using a standard ...

Test and measurement instruments evolve over time. The banner improvements come in performance, things like measurement bandwidth and dynamic range. These always make the trade press headlines, but ...

There was a time when instruments sporting a GPIB connector (General Purpose Interface Bus) for computer control on their back panels were expensive and exotic devices, unlikely to be found on the ...

It’s often easy to oversimplify the considerations when choosing a computer for your instrument control application. The computer can be the most crucial part of your instrument control system. It ...

The demand to increase energy efficiency in electrical products is driving the development of more accurate measurement instruments. Modern instruments now can quantify incremental gains made as ...