When working with hardware, whether a repair or a fresh build, it’s often necessary to test something. Depending on what you’re working with, this can be easy or a total pain if you can’t get the ...

Read more Test Ideas and Design Ideas here. As ICs increase in complexity and decrease in size, their pin counts drop or, at best, remain constant. The result: a need for pin-saving measures like ...

DME (distance measuring equipment) provides a way for a civilian aircraft to measure its distance from a land-based transponder. DME is often paired with VOR (VHF omnidirectional radio) to determine ...

New software application makes FieldFox the industry’s only handheld analyzer with a built-in signal generator at frequencies up to 54 GHz Generates pulses including FM chirps, FM triangles, AM pulses ...

P500 is a benchtop digital delay and pulse generator that generates four separately programmable delay-and-width outputs. It can generate delays up to 1,000 seconds in 1ps increments, and is capable ...

A former coworker friend sent me a Tektronix 3-slot mainframe and several plug-in modules (Fig. 1). The TM500-series mainframes are 1970s vintage, but like a lot of old test equipment, can still work ...