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 ...

[Matthew] got himself into a real pickle. It all started when he was troubleshooting a broken Hewlett Packard 8007A pulse generator. While trying to desolder one of the integrated circuits, [Matthew] ...

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 ...

Radar is a remote sensing technique used to detect, locate, and analyze objects by emitting electromagnetic waves, more specifically microwaves, and measuring the time interval between the ...

A Digital Pulse Generator (DPG) option has been released for Spectrum Instrumentation’s line-up of high resolution, medium speed, Digitizer and Arbitrary Waveform Generator (AWG) products. The option ...

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 ...