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Accelerating Spur Searches by up to 500 Times with High-performance Spectrum Analysis in a Vector Network Analyzer

Keysight Technologies, Inc.* *Keysight Technologies Inc., formerly Agilent Technologies electronic measurement business November 11, 2015 Comments Off on Accelerating Spur Searches by up to 500 Times with High-performance Spectrum Analysis in a Vector Network Analyzer

Whether an engineer is designing, developing or testing a new component, they will often use a network analyzer and a spectrum analyzer to fully understand the device under test (DUT).... Read More

Quantum dots made from fool’s gold boost battery performance

David Salisbury, Vanderbilt November 11, 2015 Comments Off on Quantum dots made from fool’s gold boost battery performance

If you add quantum dots – nanocrystals 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair – to a smartphone battery it will charge in 30 seconds, but the... Read More

Simulating and Testing of Signal Processing Methods for Frequency Stepped Chirp Radar

Frank Raffaeli, Principal RF/microwave Engineer, NI and Trang D. Nguyen, Master Project Manager, NI November 10, 2015 Comments Off on Simulating and Testing of Signal Processing Methods for Frequency Stepped Chirp Radar

Modern radar systems serve a broad range of commercial, civil, scientific and military applications. In addition to the traditional application areas of military, weather and law enforcement, radar technology is... Read More

Product How-to: Integrated isolation and power bridges the gap between USB and traditional industrial interfaces

Conal Watterson, Analog Devices November 10, 2015 Comments Off on Product How-to: Integrated isolation and power bridges the gap between USB and traditional industrial interfaces

Introduction As a standard for serial communication to peripheral devices, USB is ubiquitous today. However, industrial devices still rely in many cases on the older standard of RS-232 for debug... Read More

In the mix

Brian Tompson, Stephen Allen November 10, 2015 Comments Off on In the mix

Correctly mixing the output of RGB LEDs is an art, but can be helped with a demonstration board and a PIC12 processor Graphic artists want to create accurate colour matches... Read More

Think big but start small: Tapping into rich analytics with IoT

Jerry Lee - Microsoft's director of product marketing, Data Platform and IoT November 2, 2015 Comments Off on Think big but start small: Tapping into rich analytics with IoT

If you’re a business owner or enterprise beginning to leverage the Internet of Things (IoT), chances are you’ve started connecting your operational technologies – including machinery, building HVAC, and other... Read More

Embedded Serial Bus Debugging using Oscilloscopes

October 27, 2015 Comments Off on Embedded Serial Bus Debugging using Oscilloscopes

Introduction In the electronics industry, the drive to reduce size, power, and cost of products is leading to an increased use of serial buses in embedded devices. While serial buses... Read More