Test & Measurement World - April 1, 2005

LAWRENCE, PA. Service is a key goal of Axcera, a manufacturer of television-transmission and wireless broadband equipment. The company's engineers must resolve significant test challenges to satisfy the demands of customers, who insist on top quality to keep their television stations on the air and their broadband data services fully accessible.

• Automotive and Aerospace Test Report
• ATE Systems
• Synthetic instrumentation: The time is now
• Data Acquisition
• Hardened test modules upgrade transmission development
• Editor's Note
• Dueling standards?
• Standards
• LXI Consortium growth mushrooms
• Test Report
• Automotive datalogger
• Intertek announces expansions
• SAE offers historical standards
• Cameras augment vehicle safety
• 3-D optical measuring system
• Data Matrix decoder software
• Missile system tested by LabView
• Powertrain test control system
• Calendar

• Compliance Test Report
• Editor's Note
• Why the surprise?
• Electrostatic Discharge
• Tracking down ESD
• European Regulations
• WEEE: No fun for manufacturers
• Test Report
• Broadcast analyzer
• Changes underway to HBM device tests
• EMC filter
• Base station analyzer
• L-filter adapters
• CD catalog lists international standards
• Calendar
• FCC modifies UWB measurement procedures

• Departments
• Editor's Note
• Technology—a fad that's passed?
• News Briefs
• News Briefs
• Show Highlights
• Optical and x-ray inspection complement electrical test
• Test Voices
• Some days, you're the instrument . . .
• Viewpoint
• Board test—time for a change?

• Features
• Inspection
• X-ray inspection—Not all black or white
• Instruments
• Keep it safe
• Project Profile
• Biological pulses
• Wireless Test
• Cellular or WiFi?

• Product Update
• Featured Products
• High-voltage digital I/O
• PCI Express analyzer handles ASI
• Flexible digitizer card
• MLF probing adapters
• Digital light source
• Test sockets
• Vector signal generator for 4G test
• JTAG tester option
• Odyssey Xpro+ features 1.4-GHz PowerPC
• Rotary vibration system
• Clamp meters
• Tektronix debuts load-test system
• Frequency counter
• 3G video tester
• Clock generator handles 2-GHz signals
• PMD analyzer light sources
• Image acquisition and processing
• DVT introduces vision software
• Digital sensor interface
• RF parametric test option debuts
• Multifunction calibrator
• Web Exclusive Products
• RF shield
• MPEG tester application
• Supercapacitors

• Tech Trends
• Bench-Level Test
• Calibration and data acquisition finally meet
• Manufacturing Test
• The best-laid boards

• Test Digest
• Basic Measurements
• When high-resistance measurements are too low
• Communications Test
• Measure jitter in a PLL
• Instruments
• Using digital scopes to analyze serial data buses